Suck + Blow

It is currently going through the all-time crisis of the dominating thinking image of global capitalism and the inertial thinking of political correctness. The culture conflict intensifies; the international Nationalism and Populism are raising their heads. The future of global economic development has become more and more whirling during the process of recession. While walking on the way of resisting the centralization and institutionalization of Europe and American culture, has China Contemporary Art constructed its own spirit and value? Also has it found its own methods of organizing and change while facing the difficulties of the recession of art market and the overstock of artworks?

Urban Nomadism is not just a brand new thinking mode of inpouring Nomadic spirit into modern world, and it’s more like a new curatorial practice to challenge of the thinking traditions, the Western centralism, in this international art society. As the economic development and culture prospering of several developing countries in recent years, the international art ecology is becoming more and more flattening posture of de-centralism, non-unification and non-hierarchy. However, the contradiction and conflicts are getting more and more severe between the decoding and re-coding, the delocalization and re-localization towards European and American mainstream culture. Urban Nomadism is doubtless another road to transcend and escape the traditional political texts. The features of space shifting and geographic transferring, which Urban Nomadism emphasizes, has helped the contemporary art acquiring its freedom to consecutively produce otherness, derived diversities, connectivity and inter-activities. The global art is not integrated, nor hierarchical under the context of Urban Nomadism. Instead, it is with planarity and boundlessness. The global art does not belong to one linear developing logical structure, but presents as the random connection and free galloping of individual artist, art communities and organizations from various places and different backgrounds. The global art is not evolving, Genealogical, easy to predict, but fluid, discrete, irregular and unpredictable. With the features of inter-connecting, heterogeneities mixing, multi-element developing, consecutively fissile and endless reproducing, Urban Nomadism is decomposing the concept structure and order based on the European and American traditional thinking. There is no subject nor object, no center nor boarder in the thinking picture of Urban Nomadism, instead, it comes with countless entrances and exits, and the factors, calibration results, the dimensions that decide the creation and flowing of art.

The dynamic state of Urban Nomadism is a system with no destination, no border, and no blocking. It does not dig the meanings, nor does it interpret meanings. It instead creates the meaning. What it presents is exactly the free will of art.

Artists: Francesca Amati, Clara Aparicio, Bu Hua, Cai Shihao, Gérard Cairaschi, Cang Xin, Russell Chartier, Chen Yichun, Chen Qiang, Chen Wan-Jen, Cheng Howard, Monika Czyzyk, Silvia De Gennaro, Nara Denning, Willehad Eilers, Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar, Dimitri Fagbohoun, Fei Jun, Feng Feng, Fong Silas, Jay Forster, Benna Gaean Maris, Gao Shiqiang, Guan Huaibin, Mohammed Harb, Ho Tzu Nyen, Urszula Kluz-knopek, Erique Lacorbeille, Lai Linda, Lam Sum Po, Leung Chi Wo, Lelievre Lievre, Liu Shuming, Lu Shan, Lu Tingting, Luo Helin, Luo Songya, MAP Office, Andreas Mare, Darrin Martin, Antonello Matarazzo, Miao Xiaochun, Damon Mohl, Munkhjargal Munkhjargal, Marc Neys, Ng Fong Chao, Enkhtaivan Ochirbat, Emre Onol, Pau Ellen, Qiu Anxiong, Jaime Rodriguez, Alessandro Rolandi, Danilo Rosini, John Sanborn, Shen Jie, Shen Chaofang, Shi Jinsong, Lino Strangis, Arya Sukapura Putra, Tan Tan, Tang Guanhua, Tian Xiaolei, Sylvia Toy St. louis, Ariuntugs Tserenpil, UFO, Steven Verstuyft, Wang Ya-hui, Wang Shuai, Wong Morgan, Wu Juehui, Wu Chao, Wu Peng, Xu Tan, Yang Yongliang, Yang Chen, Yi Lian, Yu Bo-gong, Yuan Goang-Ming, Yuan Xiaofang, Torsten Zenas Burns, Zhang Junyi, Zhang Xiaotao, Zhang Zhaoying, Zhong Su

Leung Chi Wo exhibits Suck/Blow (2001).