TRANSCULTURAL COLLABORATION 2021
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Organizer | ZHdk (CH)
Co-organizer | ASFA (GR), UAL (UK), TNUA (TW), HKBU (HK), CityU (HK), NJU (CN)
Duration | 2021 Sep. 27 ~ Dec. 15
Location | Greece
Communitism, Athens, Greece
Communitism, Athens, Greece
Communitism, Athens, Greece
Communitism, Athens, Greece
2021 Group Show “Saganaki On Ice“
Duration | 2021. Oct. 28.
Location | Communitism, Athens, Greece
Performative & Interactive Installation
Site specific
> Artist
Karlotta Mix (GE)
Yui Yamamoto (JP)
Ting Chen CHANG (TW)
The Oracle Foyer is a collaborative project by three artists from different cultural backgrounds (Taiwanese/Japanese/German). In this project, they explored the differences between, and relations to, their cultures on the level of superstitions, proverbs, and fortune-telling. In these pandemic times, many people feel uncertain about their futures. Inspired by the myths surrounding the Oracle of Delphi, the three artists have created their original Oracle Foyer, a sensuous interactive installation based in an open-air interspace between the two buildings of Communitism.
The artists selected ubiquitous objects, practices, and words that in different cultures may have different superstitious meanings, for example, breaking plates or sprinkling salt. These elements were installed with special lighting and sound that created a holy atmosphere and intimate situation. Overall the installation played with the fact that the audience would interpret differently according to their own cultural background.
One Minute Space, Athens, Greece
One Minute Space, Athens, Greece
One Minute Space, Athens, Greece
One Minute Space, Athens, Greece
2021 Group Show “Micro Relations Lab“
Duration | 2021. Dec. 11 ~ Dec. 12
Location | One Minute Space, Athens, Greece
Performance
10mins
> Artist
Karlotta Mix (GE)
Natania Prezant (CH)
Werinika Przysada (PL)
Ting Chen CHANG (TW)
With “Access Point”, the artists attempted to show an improvised performance four times, incorporating four different but equally important concepts in one piece. The central object was a vacuum cleaner used to clean the exhibition space and the materials experimented with during the exploration process.
“I think this piece could be about methods of revealing. How can the insides be out-ed, if you’re only ever tracing the surface? (what, or who is outside/inside?)”
“keep in touch, out of sight, which side am I in?”
“I think the work is questioning the possibility of getting in touch with the deeper inside of something by the way of only being able to trace the surface of it.”
“I honestly don’t know where this is going.”
The final piece became an experimental multidisciplinary performance, which is open research on selected material that artists collected before in a working method laboratory.
The four artists (performers/directors) switched their roles and tried out new material at each performance.
The artists tried to show an improvised performance four times, which included four different but equivalent concepts in one piece. This idea of working on one piece altogether and working on an individual concept at the same time gives the opportunity of many different layers and readings.
