Today we are beginning our live video links.
Philip Courtenay writes:
Wow! What an exciting beginning. All of you in Shanghai, Shaw and co in the am space were just so full of energy and engagement with the questions that the e-space lab international is exploring. Hangfeng says things about the Shanghai Biennale that Peter Hagerty and I were just saying to each other. It sounds like the scale of some of the artworks in the Shanghai Biennale seems to drown out the smaller voices of artworks that deal with the really valid issues. Can marginalization occur, even within a big international art show?
So the younger group strongly value the fact and scale of a large scale international art show. It re-affirms the attitude of an outward looking Shanghai and an outward looking China, something that brings a benefit to everyone in China. Translocalmotion has been embraced by many tourists and citizens of Shanghai in the wake of the Olympics, and the lines of people waiting to enter the Art Museum wind around the building and the park. What are the works that ordinary people take pictures of? The Train! The Running Dinosaurs! Spectacle!
Hangfeng and I talk about the value of international misunderstandings between people and how such misunderstandings can, brilliantly, lead to the creation of new ideas. I ask Hangfeng if in Shanghai people take their songbirds from home to somewhere in the city where the songbirds can sing together in their individual cages, and he tells me that people do, and that they take them to the park. I say that this could be a model for another kind of art show, where different art is brought together so that the artworks can sing together and to each other. Later on, after the end of the link-up Peter Hagerty and I wonder if the caged songbird is an image that has a profound and analagous affinity to the plight of creative people everywhere we look.
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