| Inspired
by a clever moment in the legendary historical novel
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Complete Art
Experience Project (CAEP), a ten-member art collective
based in China has conceived of a site-specific
live art and multimedia installation project for
Hartnett Gallery. Eight members of CAEP each packed
a 2 foot x 2 foot x 2 foot wooden crate with artworks,
raw materials and installation instructions. In
August 2005 the eight crates were launched from
the port of Beijing, the contents of each known
only to the artist who packed it. The two remaining
artists will travel to Rochester, and on October
18-21 they will open each box to interpret, enact
and install the plans. The products of their performance
will be on display in the gallery until the exhibition's
end.
Playgrounds
of Authorship strongly addresses issues of translation
and cross-cultural exchange and challenges the
functional space of the gallery to perform simultaneously
as a museum, a theater and an artist workshop.
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