Guest: MAP OFFICE (Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix)
Date: 2014-03-01 15:00 ~ 2014-03-01 16:30
Address: Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai
Free admission, please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org.
About
the Talk
This talk will explore various territories,
first through the dynamic trajectories crossing MAP Office’s production, then
through a series of contingencies encountered among the philosophical references
taken up by the artists. Based in a region where time fluctuates along with
borders, economies, and technologies, MAP Office's practice is read though a
series of large installations articulating research material, photographs,
videos, objects and archive that were collected over the course of two
decades.Currently, one of MAP OFFICE’s work “THE OVEN OF STRAW” is
exhibited in CAC’s ongoing exhibition “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Revisited” curated by David Elliott.
first through the dynamic trajectories crossing MAP Office’s production, then
through a series of contingencies encountered among the philosophical references
taken up by the artists. Based in a region where time fluctuates along with
borders, economies, and technologies, MAP Office's practice is read though a
series of large installations articulating research material, photographs,
videos, objects and archive that were collected over the course of two
decades.Currently, one of MAP OFFICE’s work “THE OVEN OF STRAW” is
exhibited in CAC’s ongoing exhibition “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Revisited” curated by David Elliott.
About the Artists
MAP OFFICE (www.map-office.com) is a
multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez (Casablanca, 1966) and
Valérie Portefaix (Saint-Etienne, 1969). This duo of artists/architects has been
based in Hong Kong since 1996, working on physical and imaginary territories
using varied means of expression including drawing, photographs, video,
installations, performance and literary and theoretical texts. Their entire
project forms a critique of spatiotemporal anomalies and documents how human
beings subvert and appropriate space. Humour, games, and fiction are also part
of their approach, in the form of small publications providing a further format
for disseminating their work. Their cross-disciplinary practice has been the
subject of a monograph, MAP OFFICE – Where the Map is the Territory (2011),
edited by Robin Peckham and published by ODE (Beijing). IN 2013, they were the
recipient of the 2013 edition of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.Laurent
Gutierrez is an Associate Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University where he leads the Environment and Interior Design
discipline and the Master of Strategic Design as well as the Master in Urban
Environments Design. Valérie Portefaix is the principal of MAP OFFICE and is
currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University.
multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez (Casablanca, 1966) and
Valérie Portefaix (Saint-Etienne, 1969). This duo of artists/architects has been
based in Hong Kong since 1996, working on physical and imaginary territories
using varied means of expression including drawing, photographs, video,
installations, performance and literary and theoretical texts. Their entire
project forms a critique of spatiotemporal anomalies and documents how human
beings subvert and appropriate space. Humour, games, and fiction are also part
of their approach, in the form of small publications providing a further format
for disseminating their work. Their cross-disciplinary practice has been the
subject of a monograph, MAP OFFICE – Where the Map is the Territory (2011),
edited by Robin Peckham and published by ODE (Beijing). IN 2013, they were the
recipient of the 2013 edition of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.Laurent
Gutierrez is an Associate Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University where he leads the Environment and Interior Design
discipline and the Master of Strategic Design as well as the Master in Urban
Environments Design. Valérie Portefaix is the principal of MAP OFFICE and is
currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University.
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