Pak Sheung-chuen :Using a pair of eyes to Look at one half of You
“This work must be completed by two people. Both are to stand with both feet in the circle within the scaffolding around it, whilst looking at each other. At this fixed position, you can only see half of ‘you’”- Pak Sheung-chuen
Limited edition with artist's signature: 500 | English and Chinese | Concept and Text: Pak Sheung-chuen | Vitamin Creative Space, 2009 | Price: 15 Euros/ 20 USD
Travelling could be about ‘being present’; at times, it could have nothing to do with ‘being present’ – it could be an imaginary act for a beautiful, unseen place. On an ordinary day it could also become a wonderful part of our memory, taking us to somewhere far away … an afternoon … a section of the road … or a strip of cloud. Odd One In II: Invisible Travel is a collection of Pak’s art documentation about ‘getting lost’ in an unfamiliar place and ‘seeing from his inner eye’ during his traveling in Italy, New York, Korea, Tokyo, Malaysia and China.
English and Chinese | Concept and Text: Pak Sheung Chuen | Dimensions: 21.7 x 18 cm | Pages: 248 P | Mccm Creations, 2009 | ISBN 988-99266-5-2 | Price: 25 Euros |
There are parallel lines between the construction in reality and in the imagination of how a garden has evolved within an historic process. The story ends up in a big opening ceremony of the theme park where history seems to have been completely consumed and absorbed by contemporary social movement. When reality has already become commodity, The Garden of Mirrored Flowers is a labyrinth to be lost in, or a pavilion made by semi-reflective glass (like Dan Graham has made) which reflects self-images, precisely because we are situated within a reality replete with multiple routes.
Chinese | Dimensions: 13 x 21 cm | Vitamin Creative Space, 2009 | Pages: 148 P | ISBN 978-988-17864-7-0 | 15 Euros/20 Dollars
Before the Stockholm Keywords School, it took about three years to undertake the keywords'searching activity. During this time, we made numerous interviews in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, etc., also in New York and Holland. On this basis, we created some audio-visual materials, videos, publications ("Keywords Dictionary" Vitamin Creative Space, 2008), websites (www.xutan-keywords.com), etc. for the preparation of the Keywords School. These materials, which mainly concentrate on the findings from searches in Chinese society, are from research on the basis of Chinese keywords. With the "Keywords School" held all over the world, research on the basis of keywords was extended to a more globalized background; "Keywords School" in Venice is a brand new start.
English/Swedish/Chinese | Concept: Xu Tan, Hu Fang | Dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm | Vitamin Creative Space, 2009 | Pages: 66 P | ISBN 978-988-17864-8-7| Price: 15 Euros |
A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was reviewed in frieze as a "compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence." Whereas many theoretical books littering the bookshops of art institutions are laudations of excess, Birnbaum's convictions presented in Chronology cut a way through the "caesuras of non-meaning and blankness into the thick web of sense."
Chinese | Dimensions: 18.4 x 13 cm | Vitamin Creative Space, 2009 | Pages: 164 P | ISBN 978-988-17864-6-3 |15 Euros/20 Dollars
