[Views] ChART - Open House: Royal Pond
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Open House: Royal Pond
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ChART Contemporary Collaborates with Du Yi for another Open House: Royal Pond, the Second in a Series of Curatorial Experiments Reflecting Our Mission of Bringing Together Art and People. Join us on June 21, 2009, from 3:00 – 7:00 p.m. and experience a new site-specific installation created by Du Yi and curated by ChART Contemporary.

The Open House embodies ChART Contemporary’s mission of bringing together art and people through curatorial initiatives that educate, stimulate and support the production of new works by emerging artists. Open House presents a project for one afternoon in a space that is for rent, sale, abandoned or slated for demolition. There is no equivalent of the American concept Open House in Chinese, but the term yangbanjian conveys a similar feeling where real estate is on display for public consumption.

Open House is designed to give people an opportunity to interact with contemporary art beyond the black and white walls in a gallery or museum. The concept, inspired by marketing tools used by local real estate developers to sell property based on showrooms that are designed to reflect the living standards desired in China today, evolved from the American marketing concept where doors are opened to the public for an afternoon and potential buyers, renters and lookers are invited to visit a property. While the concept has different characteristics in each country, Open House has a commonality where anything is possible and the world is yours for the taking.

Royal Pond is a visual narrative created from sound and graffiti-inspired painting techniques. The fable illustrates the story of the “common people” and takes class struggle as a point of departure to reflect the erosion of the middle class and plight of the working class in modern China. Combining personal narrative with his observations of how working class families and “common people” live, Du Yi draws us into an “underwater world” where reality is bleak for a mother and son who cannot escape their fate as they sink into the abyss.

In pre-Confucian China, the feudal system divided the population into 6 classes: 4 noble classes with the king at the top, followed by the dukes, then the great men and finally the scholars. Below the noble classes were commoners and slaves. Today commoners and slaves are synonymous with the working-class, and are being pushed and consumed by society. Royal Pond is a fairytale turned nightmare that contemplates social stratification and the lack of social mobility for the working class.

















 








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