Gerald Nestler and Sylvia Eckermann
Breathe My Air
Launch Event
7 – 9 November 2008
An exhibition project curated by Li Zhenhua
Hosted by CPU:798
Supported by:
Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy Beijing
Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture
City of Vienna Department for Cultural Affairs
L.A.B. (www.bjartlab.com)
Translation: Michelle Ding (L.A.B.)
You are cordially invited to the launch in China of Breathe My Air, an art project on intellectual and social environments and their relations, by the Austrian artists Gerald Nestler and Sylvia Eckermann.
The launch event takes place for three days, from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 November 2008 in CPU:798. The artists will be present throughout the event to give visitors an opportunity to learn more about the project, develop the discussions directly with them and be a part of the process of Breathe My Air.
This launch represents the beginning of the 2nd phase of Breathe My Air, which began with a series of recorded interviews in Vienna, Austria, investigating contemporary thinking on progress, change and utopia in Europe and China, by European artists and cultural workers who have direct experience of both.
The 2nd phase, builds upon these interviews, soliciting input from Chinese artists and cultural workers who have experience of Europe. It will culminate in May 2009 with the building of “an invisible sculpture”, a demarcated space of pure, oxygenized air and mutual communication in CPU:798.
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