Asia Europe Foundation (Singapore)
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain (Luxembourg)
University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Ministry of Culture (Luxembourg)
Luxembourg pavilion at Expo2010 Shanghai
DDM warehouse, Shanghai (China)

present

7th Asia-Europe Art Camp – Art Workshop for Visual Arts 2009/2010
moved, mutated and disturbed identities

an international post-master programme
organised on the occasion of the Luxembourg pavilion at Expo2010 Shanghai (CN)

with the participating artists: Chen Hangfeng (China), Hazra Abhishek (India), Hora Ingrid (Italy/Germany), Nguyen Anh Tuan (Vietnam), Pan Jianfeng (China), Reinhold Matthias (Germany/Poland), Sangkhae Kata (Thailand), Schwarz Christoph (Austria), Smolarz Elisabeth (Germany/USA), Torii Mayura (Japan/France)

Workshop leaders: Blocher Sylvie and di Felice Paul
Curatorial coordinators: Ciric Biljana and Bernardini Fabienne


Programme:
Residency: 26 August – 9 September 2010
Symposium at Minsheng Art Museum, 570 West Huaihai Road, Bldg. F, Shanghai: Friday 27 August 2010, 14:00 till late
Opening reception 1 at the Luxembourg Pavilion at EXPO2010 Shanghai:
Monday 6 September 2010, 19:00
Opening reception 2 at DDM warehouse, 570 West Huaihai Road, Shanghai:
Tuesday 7 September 2010, 19:00
Exhibition at DDM warehouse, 570 West Huaihai Road, Shanghai:
Tuesday 7 September to Sunday 10 October 2010


Process:
The first part of this residency workshop took already place in Luxembourg at Casino Luxembourg – Forum of contemporary art from 5 to 19 July 2009. Nine Asian and nine European artists, selected through an open call by an international jury comprising a panel of workshop leaders and organisers, met in Luxembourg for a two-week residency programme. The residency programme focused on workshops, lectures, discussions, as well as on individual production of works. At the end of the two weeks, the artists presented their work-in-progress in an exhibition at Casino Luxembourg – Forum of contemporary art (19 July – 6 September 2009). After the residency programme in Luxembourg, ten artists were selected to continue the international post-master programme in Shanghai. This selection was based on the artists’ involvement within the group, the development of a new project and the quality of it.


The second part consists in the residency workshop taking place in Shanghai (26 August – 9 September 2010) The Shanghai residency will start with a one-day colloquium (Friday 27 August 2010) at Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai. The ten selected artists and the facilitators will meet for public lectures, presentations and discussions organised by the Shanghai-based curatorial coordinator (Ciric Biljana). After intense theoretical/philosophical input and exchange during the colloquium, the ten participants will work on their final work (in close relation to the topic Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities) that will eventually be presented in an exhibition hosted by art centre DDM warehouse in Shanghai. The final work – which in fact is a work in progress worked on since the beginning of the 7th Asia-Europe Art Camp – Art Workshop for Visual Arts 2009/2010, will thus be finalised and shown at DDM warehouse as well as presented at the Luxembourg pavilion at the Expo2010. A publication and/or a DVD documenting the entire programme with the lecturers will be produced in Shanghai.

Theme:
Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities has been set as topic to challenge European and Asian artists to realities and identities in both China and Luxembourg.

The artists are invited to respond to the theme through local contexts, states and situations.

The symposium will take place on 27/08/2010 at Minsheng Art Museum. It includes the ten artists’ interventions on issue of identities and a couple of lectures by artist/curator Richard Streitmatter-Tran www.diacritic.org and curator/theorist Manray Hsu, as well as the workshop Key Words with Chinese artist Xu Tan www.xutan-keywords.com. The symposium will be held in English and Chinese with simultaneous translation.


About the organisers:
This project is a co-operation between the Asia-Europe Foundation, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, University of Luxembourg and DDM warehouse Shanghai. It is realised with the kind financial support of the Ministry of Culture in Luxembourg in the framework of the official cultural programme of the Luxembourg Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai and with the kind logistic support of Minsheng Art Museum for making available the venue for the colloquium.



For more information check following websites:
www.artworkshop.lu
www.luxembourgexposhanghai.com
http://en.expo2010.cn/
www.ddmwarehouse.org


Contacts:
biljana.ciric@gmail.com
fabienne.bernardini@casino-luxembourg.lu