HOUSES & TREES / Speaking Stone, Palatti Chongqing, 501 Art Space 2009     Houses & Trees, Chongqing, 2009 Installation, slide projection, 50 slides 35mm Speaking Stone, Palatti Chongqing For the second time Palatti organized a project in Chongqing. Invited by 501 Art Space five artists came together to work on new pieces and an exhibition during the period of two months. Participants: Rolf Graf Aurelio Kopainig Betty Ras Paul Steenberghe Yu Xiao Feng Exhibition: October 28 – November 1, 2009 I built a hut made of bamboo and fabric used on construction sites. Inside I presented a slide projection, consisting of 50 photographs made during the stay stay in Chongqing (part of the ongoing project “Houses & Trees”, 2001-09). Palatti is an organization initiated by artists. In 2005, the organization held an exhibition in "M3 Kunsthalle Art Space" in Berlin, Germany, which was named "The Nature of Intervention". After that they continued to hold different sorts of art activities in diffrente places in the world. Palatti tried to accomplish their art works through a platform that was to live in a total unknown circumstance and involved themselves into the local people's lives. In September of this year, they came to Chongqing again and stayed two months at 501 Contemporary Art Center to work for their art work - Palatti, Chongqing. The artists of the project "Palatti, Chongqing" felt and experienced the same way as we did. We saw those changes what had happened and was happening around us together. And we encountered every emotional conflict and spiritual query, which was caused by everyday incidents, such as something about society, history, culture and substance. Based on this, Palatti Chongqing thought through the view of a common angle with doubts and apprehension caused by the cultural and individual differences. They used many art multiple media methods, such as film, photograpy and installation to express their point of view of the local, social big changes, indirectly or directly. From the introduction text, YanYan, director of 501 Art Space With the support of Kulturfonds Appenzell Ausserrhoden and the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. |
