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20 Feb 2010, Posted by Pan Jianfeng in Guests from China, 0 Comments

bodytalker


Half a table half a bed    by Shosha van Kranendonk and Juliane v. Crailsheim

This work searches for the struggle of longing and imprisonment within a body.

The body as boarder, language as prison, the others as a cage and our surrounding as a limit.

What if movement becomes music and music a language?

Shosha was dancing or struggling with a violin which she finally give up it, what is meaning for violin? a excuse to escape ? do we need the violin since body is already a biggest prison for us and we can’t get ride of it before we die.

Shosha seem dancing against the herself and trying to find the way out from herself, do she really believe she can? if she believe in that why she need to dance? what is the dancing means to her?

for me, Shosha’s dancing more about the battle between human being and the machine, we create the machine, we are part of the machine! machine also become the new prison for us, why we just can’t stop to create our own prison? we are living together with the prison just like we are living together with our body, how can we balance them? or can we defeat ourselves?



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Pan Jianfeng Visual Artist, Alt Design Pan Jianfeng
Pan Jianfeng was born into an artistic family in Zhejiang Province of China. He graduated from China Academy of Art with a M.A. degree in 1996. He was awarded a distinction for his second M.A. degree in the University of Central England in Birmingham in 1999. Pan Jianfeng currently works in a variety of media from painting, porcelain, and design to video installations and animation. His work investigates all areas of human concern as a vehicle of conceptual expression. He applies his free wheeling originality to reveal a new kind of an understanding of Chinese daily life, resulting in an artistic output that is full of vigor but yet at the same time whimsical and highly imaginative.

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Marita Muukkonen Marita Muukkonen

Marita works currently as a Curator at HIAP, Helsinki International Artists-in-Residence Programme. She worked earlier as a curator for FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, and was an Editor of FRAMEWORK - Finnish Art Review. She co-curated exhibition THE RAW, THE COOKED AND THE PACKAGED - Archives of Perestroika Art for KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art. Marita worked as a project coordinator at NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art 2001-2005.