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Subject: Shu Lea Cheang at the 50th Venice Biennale
From: "Julia Friedman" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, June 7, 2003 6:12 pm
To: [email protected]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 7, 2003
Julia Friedman Gallery, 118 N Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
For further information contact: Lisa Williamson, (312) 455 0755 or
[email protected]
Garlic=Rich Air 2030
Shu Lea Cheang
AFTER THE CRASH. AFTER THE NET.
CATCH GARLIC MANIA at http://www.rich-air.com
50th Venice Biennale
Limbo Zone - Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209, San Marco
June 15 - November 2, 2003
Whitney Museum of American Art
Artport
July, 2003
Julia Friedman Gallery
June 20 - August 2, 2003
Shu Lea Cheang's most recent net-installation, "Garlic = Rich Air" will
open at the 50th Venice Biennale, June 15 and continue through November 2,
2003. Cheang's "Garlic = Rich Air" large-scale installation will be
exhibited at the Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209, San Marco and
online at http://www.rich-air.com. "Burn" and "Richair2030", two other
new works by Cheang, will also be presented at the Venice Biennale, in
"Zone of Urgency", curated by Hou Hanru.
Concurrently Cheang's "Garlic = Rich Air" will be presented at the Whitney
Museum of American Art's Artport, during the month of July and at Julia
Friedman Gallery, June 20 - August 2, 2003.
"Garlic = Rich Air", dated 2030, anticipates a post-capitalist society
where the global economy and currencies have collapsed and network media
has nearly crashed. The work envisions organic garlic as the new social
currency - bought, sold, and traded to establish a new and free media
trading system. "Garlic = Rich Air" sets forth a monetary relationship
between URL information and virtual garlic. Visitors are invited to
participate online at http://www.rich-air.com and submit various URL
addresses in return for virtual garlic, "G", as Cheang puts it. At the
close of the G-Mart, virtual "G" is cashed in for real farm-grown organic
garlic; a commodity that is desired and wholly revered in the year 2030.
Shu Lea Cheang has previously exhibited in two Whitney Biennials, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York; InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo;
Walker Art Center, Minneapoli, The Project, New York and recently at
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FACT, Liverpool and Public Netbase, Vienna. She
created the Guggenheim Museum's first web based art project, entitled
Brandon.
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Julia Friedman Gallery
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Chicago, IL (60607)
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