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Here are pictures from our Cantocore - Export. The space was totally changed from the first Import part of the show, with new group of artists. More photos are on Cantocore Photo Album

Huangpu Village Project Group (Wang Ge, Deer Fang and more), video installation, 2008
黄埔村录像计划小组（王铬和方鹿等） 黄埔村录像计划 录像装置 2008

Kathrine Worel， Domestic Bliss, single channel video and photos, 2008
Kathrine Worel 家庭福佑 单频道录像和照片 2008

David Johnson, Made In China, Installation, 2008
David Johnson 中国制造 装置 2008

Lin Fangsuo, Exploitation, video Installation, 2007
林芳所 剥削 录像装置 2007

Zhou Tao, One Day, single channel video and photos, 2007
周滔 某一天 单频道录像和照片 2007

来自硬核广州 from Cantocore

开幕那天，倾盆大雨，结果还是很多相识和不相识的朋友湿淋淋地赶来了。我们也终于在开展的前一秒钟完成了布展。

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深夜在24小时印刷场，为硬核广州展览制作黄小鹏的横额。吴捷在研究该用哪个红？

印刷场的景观

I didn’t have chance to post up Cantocore home concert pictures till now. And I landed in Guangzhou two days ago. Hot here!

2 hours before the concert, Chris Willits and Ma Jie was setting up equipments and checking sound. They each were about to have a solo section and an improve collaborative performance.

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Adam has helped me document the installation in the Walter & McBean Galleries. This is part of the exhibition “We Remember the Sun”, on view from now till Sept 19th. Documentation video-taped by Adam Barczak.

“We Remember the Sun” exhibition opened yesterday at the Walter & McBean gallery. I am happy to see the realization of my installation “Don’t Talk About Politic”. Especially Kent and other people had done a perfect job for the installing. At least it’s nearly perfect except the 1 inch leaking light in the bottom of the screen because of the size of the screen was calculated wrong.

It’s my first time to set up two screen so close to each other and have the viewers in between. Also the height of the screen is just a bit above average human height. I found that this had created an different relationship and sensation that you will normally receive from a video projection, which is often either distantly remote or overwhelming to your senses. In the case of my installation here, the projected image had lost more or less the mystifying quality with a more proximity to the viewers and other works in the space.

A review of the show had came out in the Chronicle today: ‘We Remember the Sun’: Recalling revolution

Installation picture

Me with Hanru, Kevin Chan and Michael Zheng. Michael also has work in the show and he did a performance during the opening.

Mary Ellyn Johnson, curator of the show.

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I am back to San Francisco. And I look out of my window I see this: “Flat Out to Hong Kong. 2 daily non stop flights from SFO.” I just feel I would pass out and the next thing I was in Hong Kong again.

These are pictures from my video shoot in Guangzhou 2 weeks ago. The video is for the new project titled “Don’t Talk About Politic”. I am working on the editing right now…

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前段时间火炬传到了广州，跑过了我住附近的一条街。我因为不清楚几点钟火炬会到，所以就骑着车出去观察局势。结果我到比火炬早到了两小时，所以有幸目睹了观望人群形成和军警的列队等候火炬的过程。虽然我从一开始能站到最前排，但我还是在看火炬和看人两者间选择了看人，所以我又退到了人群外. 下面是些照片。

前几天就有留意旧金山艺术学院里Walter McBean画廊里，侯瀚如策展的Adel Abdessemed个展所引起的争议。然后今天才了解到这个展览因为几个动物权利组织的抗议和威胁已被迫关闭了。展览上的一些录像纪录了动物被屠杀的过程，因而引来了众多抗议。展览开幕那天本来只是一个学院内的展览开幕，据说人不算特别多，可是过后学院却收到了8000多封投诉信，其中一些信还威胁学校的老师和学生，称要以暴力回报。(SF Gate上有具体新闻)

我无法在这里评论Abdessemed的作品因为我没有现场看过这位巴黎艺术家的作品。可是这种围绕所谓的政治“正确性”而进行的自我审查实在是可悲。在中国如果有展览被封，那可能是因为官方的限制。而这个Abdessemed展览被取消却是因为维护动物权利的团体和个人抗议而被取消的。这个维护动物权利的头衔就是我上面指的“正确性”。我发现在美国，特别是 旧金山这个提倡自由和多元的地方，这种“正确性”是最时髦的一个取向。时髦好比练瑜珈，吃有机食品(organic food), 不买第三国家血汗工厂生产的产品等等。因而这个展览才在旧金山引起了这么大的风波和抗议。

我并不反对这些“正确性”，可是我认为”正确性“的背后充满了对现实的无知，发达国家的优越感和惺惺作态的同情。就拿现在对西藏的争论为例子，那些高喊自由独立口号的人中，到底有多少是真正了解西藏，毕竟文化和宗教差异太大。那天我和一个从美国回国探亲的朋友吃饭，她满口理所当然的藏独让我摸不找边际，也不想回应。直到她话锋一转，她说回国最大目的只是购购物，我才暗自恍然：原来所有关乎自由的激进言辞其实和现实并没有什么关系。就像那些维护动物权利的抗议者们，或许他们已经把世界上所有的动物都同化成了他们家里那只宝贝宠物，却忘记了他们自己生活在和世界其它地方完全不同的现实中。