People's Limbo in RMB City
Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy)
At "Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation" Exhibition
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
May 22, 2009-August 9, 2009
"People's Limbo" is a new series of interactive, experiential activities that take place in Cao Fei’s RMB City, a fantastical community in the vast virtual world of Second Life. A reaction to the global economic crisis, the project is an exploration of the feelings of despair, denial, and loss of control that accompany financial catastrophe, as well as the simultaneous potential for progress toward rebirth, self-reliance, and freedom. In the words of Lao Tsu, "If you empty the self and relax your desires, you will know more clearly where you are heading."
Beginning May 22, 2009, ten videos of the ten new People's Limbo activities will be displayed in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, as part of the "Louis Vuitton: Passion for Creation" group exhibition. The videos offer a Real Life (RL) audience a unique view of the essence of the "People's Limbo" experience, while Second Life (SL) users can experience the work firsthand. Via avatars, people may participate interactively in each of the ten activities, as if playing a virtual art game.
Some of these games are competitive and reflect the influence of past economic realities, like one in which the visitor is thrown into the middle of a dense bubble of chaotic, bouncing balls, only to find it increasingly difficult to maneuver her way out, mirroring the quick loss of control that occurs as an economic bubble builds (and quickly collapses). Others, like a sustainable community garden, are meditative, and represent idealized visions of the future.
Perhaps the penultimate People's Limbo experience is to visit the foot massage parlor staffed by Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, a fictional Lehman Brothers executive, and Lao Tze. In their imagined dialogue, Marx's avatar quips to Mr. Lehman Brothers: "To be frank, your idea of freedom has gradually drawn out human beings’ unsatisfiable endless desire", to which the executive replies "But without desire, the world becomes so boring". Their philosophical examination of all of these ideas continue until the executive dispenses with a final piece of advice: "Take all this as a journey in the 'Limbo of Life'".
People's Limbo
In Real Life: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
In Second Life: RMB City: People's Limbo
Special Thanks to Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création
About RMB City:
RMB City is a virtual art community in the online world of Second Life, initiated by Beijing artist Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy) as a public platform for creativity. Officially launched in late 2008, it will continue to grow and change over its two-year run, with the participation and support of leading international art institutions and networks. The city is a laboratory for experiments in art, design, architecture, literature, cinema, politics, economy, society, and beyond.
For more information, please contact: press@rmbcity.com
www.rmbcity.com
www.rmbcity.com/blogs
www.youtube.com/user/RMBCityHall
Landmark in Second Life: RMB City 1 (130, 123, 140)
www.vitamincreativespace.com
Developer of RMB City: Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy) and Vitamin Creative Space
Facilitator: Uli Sigg Public Presenter: Serpentine Gallery (London)
Planning/Promotion Phase: December 2007- July 2008
Construction Phase: July- Fall 2008
Open City: Late 2008-Fall 2010
Artist Bios:
Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy) (www.caofei.com )
Born 1978, Guangzhou/Lives and works in Beijing, China
Known for her multimedia installations and videos, Cao Fei is acknowledged as one of the key young artists emerging from Mainland China. She mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, Surrealism, and documentary conventions in her films and installations. Her works comment on the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in all facets of Chinese society.
About Second Life (http://secondlife.com/ )
Second Life was conceived as an online platform for participants to create a parallel reality in which to live out their dreams, and 14 million people worldwide have registered since it launched in 2003. Each user is represented by an ‘avatar’, a digital figure that they can customize and control. As well as visiting existing environments and communicating with other inhabitants, participants can purchase land, design buildings, develop businesses and trade in a marketplace of their choice.
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