| 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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