TO OCCUPY A DIFFERENT SPACE OF MIND: SEVEN WEEKS IN BEIJING 2010 SUMMER   
mixed media    site specific   (Sep 2010)

This is a collaborative installation that was made possible with the help from the seven young artists that I met at CAFA (the Central Academy of Fine Arts) Beijing in the summer of 2010. Through bringing together the artworks of different artists, the installation expressed not only the visual interactions between the works, It also documented my encounters with the young artists. The walls was turned into a ground of recollection where I wrote down the memory of my interactions with the artists. The exercise had opened a gateway for me to return to a recent time and  ponder upon a familiar yet distant relationship that I have with China and her culture.  The installation is also an extension of my dissertation research on the topic of “To Occupy a Different Space of Mind: Investigating the connectivity between socio-cultural and historical contexts and the positioning of self in the studio art practice of the Post Eighty Generation Artists in Beijing“.

Artists：

Zhao Hui –  Together We Fight Economic Crisis
Wang Ruosi – Nainai (Grand Ma)  (installation)
Li Ning － Untitled
Zhou Jun － Untitled
Xiao Bin －  Untitled (installation)
Huang Zheng － Mountain and Water（sculpture documentation)
Kamiljan － Dongzhimen（documentary）
Hong Wan Tham – Past Present Future（video）

赵辉 –  众志成城抵御金融风暴
王若思 – 奶奶 (装置)
李宁－ 无题
周君－ 无题
肖彬－ 无题 (装置)
黄镇－ 山水（雕塑记录)
喀米利江－ 东直门（纪录片）
覃鸿文 – 昨天 今天 明天（视频

AN UNANTICIPATED MOMENT OF BEING – ESPERANZA MARTELL
 mixed media    site specific   （May 2011）