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JUMP+ aims to produce cutting edge interdisciplinary art and cross-over collaborations both in the UK and China.
Travelling into Your Bookshelf
Touring art project by Movana Chen
1st stop - ambient.space | London 2-12 April 2010
“Travelling into your Bookshelf” is Movana Chen's new touring project that creates dialogues around memories of books donated by people from all over the world. It is an ongoing project that aims not have any limits in terms of location or format. Through meeting with strangers and reading their books, she attempt to establish relationships with them and learn about their cultures by exploring their memories and maintaining a two-way communication. Through her knitting process with the participants, she hopes to create a new way of reading and let the viewers re-examine the communication barriers between people nowadays.
JUMP+ is pleased to collaborate with Hong Kong-based artist Movana in presenting her first stop of "Travelling Into Your Bookshelf” touring art project in London. She thinks that everywhere can be an artist resident space, her attempt was to move herself between a public space and a private space. During her time in London, she was living in East Hackney at ambient.space with intermedia artists Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel (Ambienttv.net), along with her shredding machine and her ongoing knitting artwork.
In Movana's previous work, she has been knitting works of art by deconstructing and reconstructing shredded pieces from old magazines. She focused on exploring “wearable art” by creating “body container” sculptures, which are used to examine the relationship between garments and the media, and also to reflect on our consumption of disposable commodities.
Movana Chen's work is a multi-disciplinary fushion of media transformation, fashion, sculpture, live art and installation, which has been presented in diverse exhibitions and festival events in Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai.
Photo by Sharon Kinsella, 2009
Events
Artist Talk
Friday, April 9, 2010 from 5.30PM-7.00PM
Location
Royal Holloway, University of London, Bedford Square Building, Bedford Square, 2 Gower Street, Central London. (Nearest undergrounds Warrent Street/Tottenham Court Road)
Travelling Arts | One Day At A Time
Saturday-Sunday, April 10-11, 2010 from 11.00AM-11.00AM
Locations
A 24 hours durational travelling arts event held at different sites across London
About Movana Chen
Born in Guangdong, China in 1975, and currently based in Hong Kong. Movana Chen studied fashion design at the London college of Fashion and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Hong Kong. She also studied art curating at the Hong Kong Art School. Recently, she has had solo exhibitions at Shinhwa Gallery (Hong Kong), Pekin Fine Arts (Beijing). Her work has been group exhibited at Gyeonggi MoMA (Korea) and MoCA Shanghai Museum (Shanghai). Her forthcoming bookshelf project will then travel to Milan, Seoul and Philadelphia.
movanachen.com
Travelling Into Your Bookshelf London | Touring art project by Movana Chen | 2 - 12 April 2010
