Chongqing workshop  May 25- June 4 . Xia Ke – The Fog Guest is dipping into every nook and cranny with a group of 26 from the Sichuan Fine Art Institute

Over the coarse of two weeks these students set out across the sprawling city of 4million to capture the everyday life being performed in their city.  To offer the world a mere glimpse of a city that is rapidly expanding between the Jialang and Yangzi rivers.  Amongst the mountains and below the skyscrapers, citizens arrive daily from the countryside looking for work and a better life offered by this era of hyper-industrialization in the Sichuan region.

The videos from this workshop were presented on June 4th at the Zero Bar, a popular hang out below a large complex of artists studios and galleries located in the Jiu Longpo District.  At least 70 people showed up for an evening of celebration, discussions and above all a moment to reflect and consider a city in the making. A city in all of its irrational scale and vibrant street life was in focus, offering a glimpse of what plays out in front of us as we navigate our zones of urban life. 

城市一分钟 City One Minutes – ChongQing screening at the Zero Bar, Jiu Longpo District

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Kansas City, April 9-23

                             

About city one minutes

Making a portrait of a city is to record the unique. To register the characteristics with which this city distinguishes itself from others. It is also the city seen through the eyes of the artist.

The exhibition will be a walk through the world of cities. An insight into where and how people live. A visual report of the now.

The city one minutes is a project in partnership with the Dutch digital documentary channel Holland/Doc VPRO and the East China Normal University in Shanghai. The videos will be screened on a new website www.cityoneminutes.org on digital television, at  the Rotterdam Architecture Biennial in November 2009 and the World Expo Shanghai 2010 among other international venues.

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A city is a living entity and its face in the morning is different from the night. One artist makes a portrait between 9:00 and 10:00. Another one makes a portrait between 21:00 and 22:00 or 01:00 and 02:00; together a portrait of 24 visions. 24 individual portraits