Physically mobile

Today I bought an used bike and immediately felt ready to move around. Canberra is such a city not really designed for pedestrians. If you want to walk, you're supposed to do it in the park or the promenade. It's a city of roads but not streets. Roads form the fabric of the city where only objects with wheels are mobile!

Anyway, I had a nice short bike tour along the lakeside. Nothing to complain then!

The landmark National Museum of Australia on the lakeside - sculptural & deconstructive - I don't like it much although I haven't visited inside yet.

Arrived in Canberra

Just arrived in Canberra yesterday. It was my first time to board on a plane with propeller. It flew at a height a bit lower than the jet. I got a nice window seat on the plane and found the city looks so much like a huge golf court.

Shanghai MOCA

Reversing Horizons is a show co-curated by Chang Tsong-zung & Gao Shiming. It's rare not only as a Hong Kong art show outside Hong Kong but also one cross-generations & cross-media seldom seen in Hong Kong.

Yuk King was not able to install the show herself and entrusted me to keep an eye on the installation. It's my ignorance that it was finally mis-installed. I hope the museum staffs can fix it soon.

Yuk King's work on the right is supposed to be hung at an angle.




Amy poses as model for my installation, a 4 back-projections installation entered via a small corridor, which should be realized 4 years ago.

before 71

After many difficulties and help via a friend in South Africa in addition of my call for help at various websites, I sorted out translations in Tibetan (done in Vienna, London, Switzerland & Bhutan!!!). The first line "I don't like my name" was pencil drawn directly on wall in 1a Space. The 2nd line "Can you change your name?" was on the banner for the July 1 march.

I also did a collection of Google search "I don't like my name" and it's amazing to see how many really don't like their name!

planes

This year I saw a lot of aeroplanes in Venice!

64 & 71

I went to the candle night in memory of June 4, 1989 in Victoria Park and then got really stuffed with art in the famous Grand Tour (3/4 version!) in Europe. Immediately it's the July 1 march that I returned to the same place.

This year Para/Site organized the participation with banners designed by artists. I also contributed one in Tibetan. It's my first time to walk with banner.

"Can you change your name?"

Bernd Becher

Bernd Becher has just passed away last week. The Becher couple was really contemporary masters who have so much influence on what we see photography nowadays. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/arts/26becher.html?ex=1340510400&en=aa3ba0750af71bc2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss