Dream Tumor《梦瘤》 Maja Lindberg Schwaner (Denmark 丹麦)
Dream tumor. A household item that has lost its function, now becoming something other, something alive and grossly cute. With its pastel coloring, the organic textures take on an otherworldly glow, also to be found in a teen girls room. The foam, spreading out on the surface, are also growing out of it, spreading like joy and diseases. The patches of foam can seem like beings of their own. One entity and many. The whole thing is on the verge of collapse but also that is a matter of transformation. What looks like a planetary surface might also look like something on the inside of the body, a strangeness closer to home. Made of a ventilator stand, fabric, plaster, polyurethane foam.
The Kids of Waste Land《荒野的孩子》 Feng Ge 冯舸 (China 中国)
The series I made here is called “the kids of wasteland”, which included several stop motions videos and photography works. Untitled space is in what was previously an obsolete plant. The deserted place always stimulates colorful imagination, I want to do my work about the creatures and nature. Every creature is the kids of the whole world. Before we came to the real world, the materials made up our body had already existed. I think each life is the recombination of those things, it constituted an individual life for several years, and after that, all the matters resolved is returned to the world. The stop motion video shows the activities like growth and death, eating, playing and other vital motions in these abandoned places.
Using the materials I found around in the town, I created some creatures inspired by the environment here. The “Windoats”, as I call them, are bottomless boats that have a reflective quality. They are made out of finding materials, like wood, metal, and glass found from the abandoned factories around Untitled Space. These creatures I’ve created are individually different, as I didn't follow any boat building rules and just let the materials to speak for themselves. I constructed a fictional narrative for the “Windoats” by using video and filming a documentary that following these creatures; moving them to the river and manipulating them in different methods. Through this documentary, I was also playing with how my sculptural works can engage with their environment as well.
From Here to Pudong《从这里到浦东》 Scott Anderson (Australia 澳大利亚)
“From Here to Pudong” is an installation piece exploring deconstructed architectural forms via collage, painting and sculptural techniques. With this work, I am proposing that different media can work collectively as a hybridized practice and questioning the value and appropriateness of non - art materials, such as reclaimed cardboard within a fine-art context. With this work, I am offering visual relationships and dialogues to form through a multi-panel combination. By installing works in such a way, I am challenging the viewer and consequently questioning the validity of the formal gallery hang.
Black Leaves In the Mouth, Dancing the Waltz Together《嘴含黑叶,共舞华尔兹》 Yein Lee (South Korea 韩国/Austria 奥地利)
The research of painterly sculpture, appropriated of art-historical references, and matter of body, this work refuse flattened picture. My artistic practice continues that work, takes up that challenge, the legacy of all painting as inherited by gestural abstraction and realizing it in the mid-air. Transparency realizes to see through the brush-strokes and they become objects by surrounding. Rather than shutting down on the flatness, the drawing lines connect to each other, holding their hands with glues.