We Are The World
WATW is short for We Are The World. The song (written by Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson) was originally written for a 1985 campaign against famine in Ethiopia, later hijacked for a multitude of other purposes, focusing on issues of solidarity as well as mutual responsibility. In the framework of this 2009/2010 travelling exhibition, a collaboration between the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, CN) and Paradox (Edam, NL), it is referring to the latter notion: common responsibility for the highly complex, culturally, economically and socially interrelated world we are living in.
We Are The World, curated by Stephanie Tung (Three Shadows) and Bas Vroege (Paradox) in collaboration with Tsai Meng (Guangdong Museum of Art) combines the work of Chinese and Dutch photographers and artists in a travelling show that can be defined as a montage of artistic, journalistic and scientific observations. The works are shown in an experimental, provocative combination with real-time projected statistics and newsfeeds.
The area covered by WATW is vast, ranging from economic growth, the environment, energy production, capital flows, migration, consumption, etc. Most important notion is that all these phenomena are linked and that we have a global, shared responsibility to cope with them. It is an understatement to call this a complex and highly problematic process. WATW has, of course, no answers to this nor does it even want to suggest it has. The world we share is a roller coaster that we have very limited control over.
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Jacqueline Hassink (1966) is a Dutch, New York-based conceptual artist specialising in photography. She is best known for her projects relating to globalisation issues, such as The Table of Power (1995, 2011), Car Girls (2008) and View, Kyoto (2014). Hassink was involved in the project from the start. Initially, her attention was focused on photographing landscapes where there is no mobile phone connection or Wi-Fi.
The collaboration with Bregtje van der Haak and Richard Vijgen directed her towards alternative environments: areas deliberately without internet access, varying from digital detox hotel rooms in Baden-Baden to corporate Wi-Fi-free rooms in Samsung's headquarters in Seoul. Hassink’s Unwired Landscapes were taken using a medium-format analogue camera. The resulting images demonstrate the physical, disconnected side of White Spots. Additionally, underlining our continuous interconnectedness, Hassink used her iPhone in a series called iPortrait to portray subway passengers in Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Paris, London and New York, all engrossed in their little screens.
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His first work formed the basis of the photo book Passanten, published in 1996. Other photo books soon followed, such as Pasatiempo/Passing Time (1998), Made in China (2002) and Damrak (2005). Niekus received a grant from The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) in 2009 to publish his encyclopaedia of street behaviour online. Spectator will be available as a photo book in early 2010. Niekus’ work is represented in several international collections, including the Albertina Museum (Vienna), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and the Special Collections Department of the University Leiden.
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Frank van der Salm (b. 1964) studied at Delft Polytechnic and the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam). He has worked on projects with architects such as O.M.A. (Rem Koolhaas), Herzog & de Meuron, and MVRDV. His work has been shown at the Venice Biennial, Haunch of Venison (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Stedelijk Museum (Schiedam, Netherlands).
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Ad van Denderen (1943, The Netherlands) has worked as a photographer for Vrij Nederland, Stern, NRC Handelsblad, GEO and The Independent magazine, among others. He has received a number of prestigious prizes for his work, including the Visa d’Or at the international photo festival Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan in 2001 and The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts’ (Fonds BKVB) oeuvre prize in 2007/2008. Go No Go, his book on migration in Europe, based on 13 years of work, was published by Actes Sud, Mets & Schilt, Lunwerg Editores, Edition Braus and Paradox in 2003. For the 2008 SteidlMack/Paradox publication So Blue So Blue, Van Denderen photographed the 17 countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Earlier publications include Peace in The Holy Land, a book about Palestine (1997) andWelkom in Suid-Afrika, about apartheid (1991). Ad van Denderen is a member of VU agency, Paris.
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© Song Chao

© Chen Xiao

© Chen Xiao

© Frank van der Salm

© Henk Wildschut

© Jin Jiangbo

© WassinkLundgren

© Theo Niekus

© Ad van Denderen

© Zhao Liang

© Xiong Wenyun

© Xiong Wenyun

© Zeng Han

© Mo Yi

© Jacqueline Hassink
















Exhibition
The exhibition WATW looks at various aspects of our globalised, consumption driven world and combines the works of Chinese and Dutch photographers and artists in a travelling show. Participating artists are: Chen Xiao, Jin Jiangbo, Mo Yi, Song Chao, Xiong Wenyun, Zhao Liang, Zeng Han, Jacqueline Hassink, Theo Niekus, WassinkLundgren, Henk Wildschut, Frank van der Salm, Gerald van der Kaap and Ad van Denderen.
The works of the artists/photographers in the show have not been chosen to merely illustrate this idea. Taken separately, they express the artists’ personal concerns, passions and interests. Yet they also interact with one another as well as with the real-time quantitative data and newsfeeds projected on large billboards. These infographics translate the abstract data representing the economic, social and environmental processes taking place 24/7 into a seemingly concrete moving sculpture. Thus new meanings are generated, depending, of course, on the viewer’s own perceptions.
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22.06.201018.07.2010Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (CHI)
03.04.201026.04.2010800 Show / Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai (CHI)
28.11.200928.01.2010Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing (CHI)
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Video Installation
7 x 2 x 0.5 m, 9 monitors with DVD player (Zhao Liang)Video Projection
200 x 112 m screen with DVD player (Jacqueline Hassink)Video Projection and Monitors
ca. 400 x 300 wall, 5 22″ LCD monitors with MacMinis (Theo Niekus)Monitor and Print
42″ LCD TV with DVD player and print (Gerald van der Kaap)Prints
73 prints, mounted / unmounted, framed / unframedProjection Infographics
600 x 4.50 m screens (2) with XGA DLP projectors and MacMinis
ca. 900 x 200 screen with 2 XGA DLP projectors and MacMini -
Stephanie Tung (Curator)
Tsai Meng (Curator)
Kummer & Herrman (Graphic Design)
Yvo Zijlstra (Web Design and Animations)
Jeroen de Vries (3D Design)
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