Residency Jay Koh and Chu Chuyuan

Jay Koh and Chu Chuyuan were invited to Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou as part of a professional residency (autumn 2006). The two artists/curators undertook research on BizArt and they have been asked to give a report about this organization with suggestions to how to improve the management of the organization itself.

Below is an abstract about their experiences by Jay Koh.
A more complete report will be published in the the 10th anniversary book of BizArt.

This is not my first trip researching art in China as I have travelled widely in various parts of China from 1997 till present. In 1999, I was involved in a “sister cities” partnership project between Beijing-Cologne, in which we organised a performance and discussion in Artist Store House in Beijing and a show in Galerie N in Cologne.

Superficially the art practices in China seem to project great freedom in conceptualising frameworks as compared to practices found in other places in Asia or in the West. These include foreigners setup art spaces and business in China that exist over