HOKKAIDO WITH & LIJIANG WITH/OUT

The experiments presented here, Hokkaido With and Lijiang With/Out are, if you will believe it, connected. Think of them as an evolution of inquiries into an artist’s presence or absence in an unfamiliar place, built on both doubt and confidence, both a lack and a surfeit of context. Both projects put pressure on artists by putting them in difficult situations, but by working directly with these problems, the projects and the artists open up new possibilities in their unusual approaches.

[LIJIANG WITH/OUT]
Artists : Li Jianhong / Tomoko Hojo / Rie Nakajima / Wei Wei a.k.a VAVABOND / Sheryl Cheung /
Marina Tanaka / Wang Ziheng / Charmaine Lee / Chiharu MK / He Jixing
Contributors :Chunyang Yao/Masato Fukushima
Location Sound: He Jixing

[HOKKAIDO WITH]
Artists :Chunyang Yao / Wei Wei a.k.a VAVABOND
Photographer:Li Jianhong
Curators :Jay Brown / Yasuhiro Morinaga
Translator/Editor :Alan Cummings
Local Support [Hokkaido] :Tobiu Art Community
Production Support :Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation/Asian Cultural Council/Lijiang Studio

Translator/Editor :Alan Cummings
Project Manager :Eijun Sugihara
Art Director & Designer :Yurie Hata
Curators :Jay Brown/Yasuhiro Morinaga