'Field of Vision : Beijing'
Beijing New Art
Projects, situated in the fashionable 'Factory 798' Art District of Beijing, is the venue for the first Asian staging
in the 'Field of Vision' global art
project. 'Field of Vision: Beijing' presents a freeze-frame slice through
the multiple perspectives of the many
real and imagined contemporary Chinas. This immense wall-based installation is constructed from
a skillfully edited assemblage of
uncensored 'visual blogs' collected worldwide over the Internet following
a highly successful call for
submissions.'Field of Vision: Beijing' is the result of a year long collaboration between Chinese
photography and performance artists
the Gao Brothers and German artist Stephan Hausmeister, currently based in the UK. The Beijing field, like
all other geographical instants in
this ongoing global series, reflects a unique local situation at a fixed point
in time, including its relationships
to global issues and perceptions, both positive and dissonant. Invitations to produce further
'Fields' at key locations in Berlin, Sofia, Belfast and Bangkok have been received, with
each planned as a new and unique unfolding in the map of contemporary perceptions,
both global and local, that chart our
steps into this uncertain century. The final artwork resulting from the
'Field of Vision' gallery event
appears as an on-line version on the ever expanding project website, where visitors can navigate across the
entire surface of the work and zoom in
on the selected focus points to explore in detail the vast field of
diverse viewpoints. All images are
identified by the name and country of the contrib! utor, and
many are accompanied by small personal statements that add to the depth
and fascination of the artwork.
Events: 'Field of Vision: Beijing' opens at 15:00 on
Saturday 16 September, also celebrating the re-launch of the newly renovated Beijing New
Art Project's gallery space. Construction and installation of 'Field of Vision :
Beijing' takes place as a live event
from 9 - 14 September with gallery visitors welcome to view the emerging
'field'. Progress updates and live-audience
reporting will appear on the project website throughout. A symposium at 15:00 on Friday 15 September will
include video interviews with Chinese
artists, artist's talks, and an open discussion. These presentations are
the result of an ongoing critical
investigation into the current boom in Chinese artistic production, and in the position of Beijing
specifically - including the rapid
emergence of the 'Factory 798' Art District into the international
limelight. Through a diversity of
content and views the symposium will raise and challenge a number of critical perspectives on China and the
West today, highlighting the need for
critical debate supporting the 'internal' perceptions of Chinese cultural
producers, alongside issues concerning
'Orientalism' and the internalization of Western views of self, Eastern 'Occidentalism', and
state absolutism and the 'absolutism'
of capitalist exchange-value. Opening:
September 16 at 15:00 Symposium:
September 15 from 15:00 – 18:00 http://www.field-of-vision.net/Beijing Beijing New Art Projects 798 Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015 China T / F
China: +86 – [0]10 – 84566660 Curators:
Gao Brothers, China; Marcel Hager, Germany; Stephan Hausmeister, Germany /
UK Symposium host: Malcolm Ferris,
University of Hertfordshire, UK Alison
Dalwood - Cang Xin - Feifei Lu - Han Bing - Helen Marshall - Ji Shengli
(Hei Yue) - Kazuaki Tanahashi - Lao
Liu (Tian Yi Bin) - Liu Fei - Ma Han - Miao Xiaochun - Michael Wright - Paul Dacey - Sam Jury – QingQing
- Ye Fu ...and another 160 artists
from 23 different countries, submitting more than 900 images for the Beijing field. A first preview of
all images submitted until August 15
is visible at www.field-of-vision.net/Beijing/Raw, images collected later
than August 15 will be published by
September 14.
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