A Long March Project

in collaboration with

Daniel Malone and Kah Bee Chow

at

Turbulence | 3rd Auckland Triennial

Marching: 7 March – 4 June 2007

Venues: Gus Fisher Gallery

Artspace

St. Paul Street Gallery

Auckland City Art Gallery

Various sites throughout city of Auckland


Project Summary



No Chinatown? Or No Chinatown! Should Auckland have a Chinatown? Does Auckland in fact already have Chinatown(s)? What indeed constitutes a Chinatown or any (Self) determined cultural identification with place? The No Chinatown Project will raise these questions and discursive space for any number of simultaneous answers, sometimes contradictory, acting as a catalyst to precipitate the emotional state of Auckland; at times lamenting a lack, proposing an action, at others giving voice to confusion or resisting an over-determination.



For the 2007 Auckland Triennial, the Long March will be brought to Auckland in a collaborative project with artists Kah Bee Chow and Daniel Malone entitled No Chinatown. The project takes a public minded approach by utilising public spaces not just as exhibitions sites, but also involving the contributions of many other individuals, communities and collectives as a vital part of the work. The metaphor of ‘Chinatown’ will be used to engage with the Triennial’s curatorial theme of turbulence, and the subsequent dynamics of immigration, tourism and cultural diaspora raised in the process of globalisation.



Within the Triennial space, No Chinatown will take place in an array of art venues offered by the exhibition, including the The Gus Fisher Gallery, ST PAUL ST and ARTSPACE. The display at each venue is both individual and linked, building momentum and resonance with a larger space of transitory events and activities outside and between the galleries during the course of the Triennial, most significantly at the Auckland City Council facilitated Lantern Festival in Albert Park, and through a number of events directly involving students, such as an architecture competition (organized by Cultural Signals) and a public survey to be organised through the Long March’s involvement in the Elam School of Fine Arts Residency Project, as well as a hikoi / march across the city of Auckland that engages with issues of land rights, the economies of cultural capital, and the history of revolutionary and socialist movements in New Zealand.



Full Project Description | http://www.longmarchspace.com/images/auckland/CURATORIAL.html

For more information please contact us

Tel: +86 (0)10 6438 7107 | Fax: +86 (0)10 6432 3834 | Email: lm@longmarchspace.com

Visit http://usuite.com/survey/000254f5f11b4ac790d38c0822e827cc.sur and take No Chinatown Survey

Visit http://www.culturalsignals.org.nz/ for updates about the ongoing architecture competition

Official 3rd Auckland Triennial Website: http://www.aucklandtriennial.com/

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这帮行为艺术家真能闹啊,自从N年前参加过他们本部的一个聚会,觉
得也就是闹闹,现在看来,还真闹大了,时间闹大了,还有空间。