山水 ShanShui – Both Ways 2010

Exhibition September – December 2010, in China (Shanghai) and Switzerland (Berne).
Artworks of Alexandre Joly – Aline Veillat – Aniu – Liao Wenfeng

This exhibition premiers the artworks of the Sino/Swiss Residency Exchange.  山水 ShanShui – Both Ways explores the manifold dynamics of the collaborations. The resulting works show the communication potential of artists’ responses to scientific research. Fixed notions of cultural cartography are questioned, and the boundaries of both art/science, and China/Switzerland, are blurred. Parts of the exhibition are four 12minutes documentary films which show the process of the artists in the science institutes and do include interviews with the artists and scientists involved. The artworks include photography, video installations, a sound installation, drawings, a multi-media installation and can be adapted according to site-specific requirements.

The main research themes addressed by artistic investigations is environmental sciences. Since the artists are still in process of physically producing their artworks this documentation includes work-in-progress and sketches.

10.9. – 24.9.2010 in Shanghai (see blog from August 17th)
18.11. – 3.12.2010 in Berne (on Festival Culturescapes in the art gallery progr)

This project is part of the exchange and cooperation programme «Swiss Chinese Explorations» of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council  (www.prohelvetia.ch/china) and is supported by: