ZKM Media Museum presents 40 + 4 as a part of “Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012”
An exhibition at the ZKM | Media Museum
Opening: February 8th 2013, 7:00 pm
Exhibit runs from February 9th through August 4th 2013
Location: ZKM Media Museum, ZKM Foyer
As part of the ZKM_Panorama Lab exhibition, Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, the interactive video installation, 40+4. Art is Not Enough! Not Enough, which resulted from the collaboration between the curator Davide Quadrio, the filmmaker Lothar Spree as well as the video artist Xiaowen Zhu, will be shown in conjunction.
The “discovery of a new continent of art” (Peter Weibel) was already an object of discussion at the ZKM | Karlsruhe exhibition in 2007 curated by Wonil Rhee entitled, Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves. The large-scale show on the newest tendencies in the Asian art scene prompted huge international attention. The rapid development in the sphere of the Asiatic moving image required a continuation and presentation of this theme after just six years. Under the multi-layered title, Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, the ZKM shows the development of this genre and points to the increasing significance of Asia in global contemporary art.
An atmosphere of upheaval is perceptible throughout present-day Asia, which finds expression in a new discourse on contemporary Asiatic art that transgresses all genres. It is not the adherence and conservation of past values, but the recovery, creation, integration and transformation which constitute the guidelines under which the new Asiatic art liberates itself from the western models and achieves an increasingly greater independence. Until the turn of the century, video has as an art genre has continued to be attributed to the western hemisphere, in spite of the fact that its most important representatives were from Asia; however, over the last two decades independent video cultures have evolved that have found a global public, last but not least, at flourishing biennales and art exhibitions throughout the Asian continent.
The selection of works that make up Move on Asia draws on the large-scale festival of moving digital pictures in Asia of the same name organized by a network of 20 curators and 40 video artists since 2004. The exhibition which cooperates with Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul (Korea) presents video art from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. In addition to recognized artists, recent works by the young generation are also on show.
An interactive installation entitled “Global Fire” by the Paris-based artist Du Zhenjun may also be viewed in connection with the exhibition: a huge inflatable dome in which the visitors may ignite the flags of 200 countries with lighters on heat censors.
Curators: Bernhard Serexhe with Fabian Offert (ZKM) and Jinsuk Suh (Alternative Space LOOP Seoul, Korea)
