Syndicate: <nettime> Cities on the Move, Vienna

[nettime maillist <nettime@desk.nl> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

CITIES ON THE MOVE

"Contemporary Asian Art on the turn of the 21st century"

curated by Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Vienna Secession
26.11.1997, 18.1.1998

Provisional list of artists:
Abrahamaiani (Bandung/Bangkok), Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo), Duangrit Bunnag
(Bangkok), Cai Guo Qiang (Guangzhou/New York), Yung Ho Chang (Beijing),
Chen Shaoxiong (Guangzhou), Chen Zhen (Shanghai/Paris), Chi Ti-Nan
(Taipei), Choi Jeong Hwa (Seoul), Charles Correa (Bombay), Heri Dono
(Jogyakarta), Edge-Michael Chan/Gary Chang (Hong Kong)), Geng Jianyi
(Hangzhou), Simryn Gill (Kuala Lumpur/Sydney), Hanayo (Tokyo), Itsuko
Hasegawa (Tokyo), David d'Heilly (Tokyo), Herzog & De Meuron (Basel), Oscar
Ho (Hong Kong), Richard Ho (Singapore), Ho Siu Kee (Hong Kong), Tao Ho
(Hong Kong), Takashi Homma (Tokyo), Huang Yong Ping (Xiamen/Paris), Huang
Chin-Ho (Taichung), Arata Isozaki (Tokyo), Toyo Ito (Tokyo), Sumet Jumsai
(Bangkok), Chitti Kasemkitvata (Bangkok), Yukinori Kikutake (Tokyo), Jinai
Kim (Seoul), Soo-Ja Kim (Seoul), Yun-Tae Kim (Seoul), Takeshi Kitano
(Tokyo), Aglaia Konrad (Vienna/Brussels), Koo Jeong-A (Seoul/Paris), Rem
Koolhaas (Rotterdam), Kisho Kurokawa (Tokyo), Surasi Kusolwong (Bangkok),
Lee Bul (Seoul), Liang Juhui (Guangzhou), Liew Kung Yu (Kuala Lumpur),
William Lim (Singapore), Lin Yi Lin (Guangzhou), Liu Thai Ker (Singapore),
Greg Lynn (LA?), Ken Lum (Vancouver), Fumihiko Maki (Tokyo),  Fiona
Meadows/Frederic Nantois (Paris), Soo-Jo Minn (Seoul), Rudi Molacek
(Luzern), Mariko Mori (Tokyo/New York), Takashi Murakami (Tokyo), Matthew
Ngui (Singapore), Tsuvoshi Ozawa (Tokyo), Ellen Pau (Hong Kong), Navin
Rawanchaikul (Bangkok), Rikrit Tiravanija (Bangkok/New York), Kazuo Sejima
(Tokyo), Seung H-Sang (Seoul), Shen Yuan (Fuzhou/Paris), Shi Yong
(Shanghai), Judy Freya Sibayan (Manila), Marintan Sirait /Andar Manik
(Bandung), Yukata Sone (Tokyo), Sarah Sze (New York), Aaron Tan (Hong
Kong), Fiona Tan (Jakarta/Amsterdam), Kay Ngee Tan (Singapore), Takahiro
Tanaka (Tokyo), Tay Kheng Soon (Singapore), Chandraguptha Tenuwara
(Colombo),  Rikrit Tiravanija (Bangkok/New York), Tsang Tsou-choi (Hong
Kong), Wang Du (Guangzhou/Paris), Wang Jianwei (Beijing), Jun-Jieh Wang
(Taipei), Wong Hoy Cheong (Kuala Lumpur), Wong Kar-Wai (Hong Kong), Wong &
Ouyang associated (Hong Kong), Xu Tan (Guangzhou), Riken Yamamoto (Tokyo),
Miwa Yanagi (Tokyo), Ken Yeang (Kuala Lumpur), Yin Xiuzhen (Beijing), Zhan
Wang (Beijing), Zhang Peili (Hangzhou), Zhang Yuan (Beijing), Zheng Guo Gu
(Guangzhou), Zhou Tiehai (Shanghai), Zhu Jia (Beijing)

"An increasing number of cities are on the move <AD> everything is in a state
of perpetual change. Economic, social, political and cultural life develops
at breakneck speed. This kind of progress has produced new hybrid forms of
modernity.
Urban diffusion and density, improvised cities, the mobile city, post-urban
city, Glux City, Sim City, Fragmented City and threatening "social
decadence" that Itsuko Hasegwa describes critically in the wake of
and belongs to the city. He mentions a new pervasiveness that includes
landscape, park, industry, rust belt, parking lot, housing tract, single
family house, desert, airport, beach, river, sky, slope, even downtown ...
This topic constitutes the theme of the exhibition CITIES ON THE MOVE which
Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist have conceived for the Vienna Secession
(November 1997), and whose key cities are: Bangkok, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Hong
Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Shen
Zhen, Singapore, Tokyo, ..."  (Hans-Ulrich Obrist)

The urban explosion in Asia is generating a great number of new Global
Cities. These new global cities represent the erection of new economic,
cultural and even political powers which are bringing about a new world
order and new visions of our planet in the coming century. Apart from
classical characteristics of global cities, such as being active elements
of the world market and communication, various and multicultural urban
culture, 'internationalized' modes of life, inter-connectivity, etc.
these new, Non-Western global cities also have their own specific
characteristics: their own cultural traditions, historical backgrounds,
which are mostly connected with the Colonial past and neo-colonial present,
and hence new claims for developments. But, the most important is that,
with their specific legacies, they become a new and original spaces in
which new visions and understandings of Modernity, and new possibilities of
'Utopian/dystopian' imaginations, can be elaborated and invented. It is
certainly one of the most decisive factors of the global mutation that we
are experiencing at the turn of the millenium.
Several generations of artists, architects, urban planners, film makers and
intellectuals from Asia have been contributing inventively to the formation
of such new urban visions. They represent a raising force in the
restructuring of our global urban/cultural order. An exhibition which
presents such a new force in a Western context today, is not only necessary
but also essential since the East and West are approaching each other
unprecedentedly in the process of Globalisation. It is also particularly
significant to celebrate the Centenary of the Vienna Secession with such an
event before touring to several international institutions of contemporary
art and architecture. (Hou Hanru)

Please contact Baerbel Holaus (tel. +43 1 587 53 07-10, fax +43 1 587 53
07-34, e-mail: secession.pr@t0.or.at.) for further information, press and
photographic material. Guided tours through the building every Sunday at 11
a.m. (available in either German, English, French or Italian on request).