PAST EXHIBITION ::::
World Factory

ACTIVE WITNESS (Phase I): Jan 25 —Feb 27 , 2007
RESISTANCE & DREAMS (Phase II): Feb 28 —Mar 27, 2007
MAKING OUR PLACE (Phase III): Mar 28 — Apr 21, 2007
Curated by Hou Hanru

World Factory presents over 30 international artists whose works respond to the issues and conflicts within the global “free market” economy. The outsourcing of manufacturing from “First World” to “Third World” countries causes serious impacts on both sides: pollution, displacement of populations, excessive exploitation of natural resources, and uneven development resulting in further divisions between the rich and the poor. Concurrently, the formation of a global consumerist culture is exerting significant influences on local cultures. World factories are not only producing material goods for the consumer market but are also producing a new social consciousness and mobilization. The artists in World Factory are responding to these conditions with different models and new methods of creation. Taking the form of an exhibition-in-progress, World Factory uses a variety of strategies for presentation including the overlapping phases of the gallery installation, workshops, film screenings, seminars, off-site and site-specific projects, and web-based works. Download full Press Release (92K)

Artists ::::
Cao Fei, Chen Chieh-Jen, Flying City, Jean-Baptiste Ganne, Andrea Kuluncic, Lu Chunsheng, Tadeg Pogacar, Julien Previeux, Michael Blum, Heavy Industries (Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge), Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre, Jens Haaning, Ömer Ali Kazma, Map Office (Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix), Raqs Media Collective, Mario Rizzi, Allan Sekula, Zhou Hao and Ji Jianghong, Cao Fei and Ou Ning, Teddy Cruz, Sanja Ivekovic, Sora Kim, Julio César Morales, Lordy Rodriguez, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Zhu Jia

WORKSHOPS ::: DIDIER FAUSTINO
March 27 4:15–7:00pm
March 30 9:00–12:00pm
April 3 4:15–7:00pm
April 5 4:15–7:00pm.
Workshops will occur in the McBean Gallery.
Acting Out in the City artist-in-residence Didier Faustino will be leading four project-based workshops about the intersections of bodies and spaces through his conceptions of “temporary autonomous zones.” Theses zones explore the transitional perceptual and architectural zones between physical, social and political space. All students are encouraged to join Faustino in investigating notions of visual and physical instability that makes architecture an active interface between our body and its integration into space and time. Students may participate in all or individual workshops.

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Factory Sonata (What are you doing here? by Cao Fei)