January 1998 through October 1999: Zhou Tiehai (VR China), Xu Tan (VR China), Liew Kung Yu (Malaysia), Lee Bull (Korea), Jun Jieh Wang (Taiwan), David d’Heilly (USA) & Kayoko Ota (Japan).
Extending BüroFriedrich’s activities into the city, ‘Traffic Jam’ was an intervention outside the exhibition space. Guest curated by Hou Hanru and conceived in collaboration with ‘Cities on the Move’ (curators Hou Hanru/Hans-Ulrich Obrist) six artists from different metropoles in Asia were invited to create billboard works. The artists’ contributions to the project concentrated on the experience of rapidly shifting urban environments, modernization as a global phenomenon bringing about specific moments of parallel development in a shift towards a new urban reality. For almost a year the project ran parallel to the continuing exhibition ‘Standort Berlin – Places to Stay,’ establishing links of varying intensity from a parallel presentation to an actual intervention with the exhibition (Standort Berlin – Places to Stay #2 +X (Strange Fruits)). The posters were shown in front of BüroFriedrich and in different places in the city of Berlin. Succesivelly they were part of traveling exhibition ‘Cities on the Move’ and presented in Museum CAPC Bordeaux, PS1 New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana (DK).
Discussion
19 April – Grüne Salon, Berlin. The project ‘Traffic Jam’ was discussed with the
curator Hou Hanru together with Christian Rattemeyer and Mark Glöde. Moderation: Waling Boers.