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IDAprojects presents
TRANSVERSE 2009

Block Gallery QUT Australia 01 August 2009
ZAIM Art Space Yokohoma Japan October 2009
Beijing Film Academy China December 2009
Korea and Paris (TBA)

"Technology poses new questions about the way artists are exploring the landscape. We are not using Transverse in the literal sense but rather suggesting ideas around language that cross-over boundaries in meaning, experimentation and psychological frameworks. In this sense landscape also becomes a place of memory and the imagination, as contested territory, as a testing ground for humanity. Continuing from the Vernacular Terrain, Transverse asks, is it possible to speak of local dialects of the terrain? Are the artists presenting specific socio-ethno-political viewpoints? What are the influences of hyper-techno landscapes surrounding the vernacular in virtual worlds? How does Transverve reshape ideas of traditional histories of landscape, painting and cinema?"
Stephen Danzig

"Same Culture, different nature. By "same culture" I refer to how Chinese artists from different regions make good use of a common language and cultural tradition, and to varying degrees, draw upon their cultural heritage. What I mean by "different nature" is that even within a same culture, artists express disparate feeling and their works convey different implications.

Although artists from Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China and the Chinese diaspora have a common language and cultural tradition, and work within a discourse and mode of contemporary art, their practices are driven by individual feelings, standards and backgrounds. And yet sometimes their feelings about the plight of humankind and human existence converge. When artists share fundamental ideas about human existence, then it can be said that their work develops out of both same culture and same nature."
Li Xiang Ting