Hello,
As we get closer to leaving for China, I'm starting to get excited about how I'll make art in China, which will be in a mobile setting. I've been looking into art by contemporary chinese artists Yin Xiuzhen, Weng Fen, Ai Weiwei and He Yunchang. I'm interested in these artists for their language and debate with ideas of identity and movement into a so called modernity and consumerism. I would like to think that I confront these same issues in my own work, which at home in the U.S. I achieve through Printmaking, street art and the 3rd dimension or sculpture. But I understand part of the glory and challenge of our whole Art In China art adventure is that I will be limited in those mediums available here at home. Taking inspiration from especially Yin Xiuzhen and her Portable Cities, 2006 where she created a kind of 3-d urban narrative, using found fabric and object collected around the world, about the cities she had traveled to which all fits into a brief case. I fell in love with Portable cities for the piece's mobility and ability to absorb the energy one feels when traveling. So, with some anxiety, and inspiration from contemporary chinese art, I've gutted a typewriter suitcase to take with me into China in where hopefully a mobile 3-d journal will grow.
