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The End of Travelling untersucht als Videodokumentation den Einfluss der Globalisierung auf asiatische zeitgenössische Kunst. Heman Chong (Singapur) und Isabelle Cornaro (Paris) ersuchen herauszufinden, welche Bedeutung das zunehmende Interesse an asiatischen KünstlerInnen seitens europäischer KuratorInnen hat, mit besonderem Hinblick auf das Politische in ihren Arbeiten, ihrer Beschäftigung mit der Geschichte ihres Landes und deren Beziehung zum internationalen Handel. Außerdem wollen sie die auffallend starke Anwesenheit
asiatischer Studierender in europäischen Kunsthochschulen hinterfragen. Die Videodokumentation setzt sich aus Interviews mit verschiedenen international arbeitenden KünstlerInnen, begonnen bei einem Aufenthalt in Asien 2002, als auch aus Fundstücken zusammen, die an deren Wohnorten – asiatischen Metropolen – aufgezeichnet wurden. Das Prinzip ist ein sich ständig erweiterndes Archiv.

"The End of Travelling" (Trip to Asiatown and Back) is a video-documentary investigating the impact of globalisation on Asian contemporary art.
We are trying to understand the meaning of the increasing interest in Asian artists with European curators, namely with the importance of the political in their works, their attitudes concerning their country's art history and relationships with international markets. Finally, we want to question the significance of the strong presence of Asian students in European art colleges.
The video-documentary comprises of interviews with several established artists, conducted during a trip to Asia in November 2001 as well as footage filmed in the different capital cities where they reside.

Im Gespräch mit Manray Hsu, unabhängiger Kurator und Kritiker in Taipei, wird die Rolle der Kunst in Zeiten globaler Mobilität, die Rolle der KünstlerInnen und KuratorInnen zwischen den Kontinenten, die Rolle des Künstlers als Reisender uvm thematisiert.

"It is this critique then, of retinalized difference, of the Other induced to an image stereotype that is palatable and digestible, that two or three practitioners who are showing here at the Transmediale 3.0, Heman Chong and Isabelle Cornaro, for example, in their project, The End of Travelling, which is so suggestive of Michel Houellebecq's Platform, which concerns travel. Travelling the world to find that it is the same all round. Both these artists come together in this project The End of Travelling to examine what it is to produce today, in which the production of the self can only be acceptable to the optical system of the museum art gallery, that sees what it terms of Identity-Nation-Tribe category. How then to carry out a critique of multiculturalism when multiculturalism has been debased into an aesthetic notion of the Other as a retinalized entity?" Sarat Maharaj (Cultural Theorist / Co-curator, Documenta11) Keynote Address: Art Acts Global, Transmediale 3.0, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1 Feb 2003"

Heman Chong
geb. 1977 lebt und arbeitet in Singapur und Berlin
1994–1997 Temasek Polytechnic/Diploma in Visua Communication/Singapore
2000–2002 Royal College of Art/Master of Art in Communication Art and Design/London/UK
Ausgewählte Ausstellungen:
2003: The Silver Sessions/Künstlerhaus Bethanien/Berlin/Germany
The End of Travelling/Galerie Sparwasser HQ/Berlin/Germany
In Transit: The Global Soul/Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Berlin/Germany
The President’s Young Talent Exhibition/Singapore Art Museum/Singapore

Isabelle Cornaro
geb. 1974lebt und arbeitet in Paris
1992–1996 École du Louvre (History of Art)/Paris/France
1997–2002 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts/Paris/France
Ausgewählte Ausstellungen:
2003: The End of Travelling/Galerie Sparwasser HQ/Berlin/Germany
2002: 24 hours of the Inversed World/Looking Glass Gallery/Brussels/Belgium
Rendez-Vous/Matrix Art Project/Brussel/Belgium
Campus Europ Art/Nantes/Cergy/Saint-Denis/Lyon…/France
Single Screen/Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center/Copenhagen/Denmark

Heman Chong
Heman Chong is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2003) in Berlin. His trans-disciplinary practice involves the usage of graphics, photography, text, video in the exploration of mobility/nomadism, cinema/off-screen spaces, urbanity and increasingly, socio-political issues concerning the production of contemporary visual art in Asia. He has exhibited in many countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Japan, India, Spain, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He holds an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art, London.

Isabelle Cornaro
Isabelle Cornaro works primarily with drawings, text and video that are presented within a framework where one medium interacts with another. Her work deals with the concept of authority implied and imposed upon by constructed spaces (modern architecture, French gardens, etc) and is influenced by the work of science-fiction writers. She has exhibited in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Cornaro studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and École du Louvre (History of Art), Paris and currently live and works in Paris.

Manray Hsu
Manray Hsu is an independent curator (z.B. Taipei Biennial 2000, How big ist the world/O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art/Linz) and art critic based in Taipei and currently in Berlin. His main focus is an anthropological model of curatorship, art and discourse - based on the question of the democracy of intimacy, postcolonial and urban theory.


culturalframe lecture1 Herman Chong/Isabelle Cornaro A talk with Manray Hsu/Taiwan Videopräsentation: „The End of Travelling” (Trip to Asiatown and Back) Dienstag, 13. Mai 2003, 20.00 Screening: 14.5. – 19.5.2003 , Mi-Fr., 14 – 18.00

The End of Travelling untersucht als Videodokumentation den Einfluss der Globalisierung auf asiatische zeitgenössische Kunst. Heman Chong (Singapur) und Isabelle Cornaro (Paris) ersuchen herauszufinden, welche Bedeutung das zunehmende Interesse an asiatischen KünstlerInnen seitens europäischer KuratorInnen hat, mit besonderem Hinblick auf das Politische in ihren Arbeiten, ihrer Beschäftigung mit der Geschichte ihres Landes und deren Beziehung zum internationalen Handel. Außerdem wollen sie die auffallend starke Anwesenheit asiatischer Studierender in europäischen Kunsthochschulen hinterfragen. Die Videodokumentation setzt sich aus Interviews mit verschiedenen international arbeitenden KünstlerInnen, begonnen bei einem Aufenthalt in Asien 2002, als auch aus Fundstücken zusammen, die an deren Wohnorten – asiatischen Metropolen – aufgezeichnet wurden. Das Prinzip ist ein sich ständig erweiterndes Archiv.	"The End of Travelling" (Trip to Asiatown and Back) is a video-documentary investigating the impact of globalisation on Asian contemporary art. We are trying to understand the meaning of the increasing interest in Asian artists with European curators, namely with the importance of the political in their works, their attitudes concerning their country's art history and relationships with international markets. Finally, we want to question the significance of the strong presence of Asian students in European art colleges. The video-documentary comprises of interviews with several established artists, conducted during a trip to Asia in November 2001 as well as footage filmed in the different capital cities where they reside.

Im Gespräch mit Manray Hsu, unabhängiger Kurator und Kritiker in Taipei, wird die Rolle der Kunst in Zeiten globaler Mobilität, die Rolle der KünstlerInnen und KuratorInnen zwischen den Kontinenten, die Rolle des Künstlers als Reisender uvm thematisiert.	"It is this critique then, of retinalized difference, of the Other induced to an image stereotype that is palatable and digestible, that two or three practitioners who are showing here at the Transmediale 3.0, Heman Chong and Isabelle Cornaro, for example, in their project, The End of Travelling, which is so suggestive of Michel Houellebecq's Platform, which concerns travel. Travelling the world to find that it is the same all round. Both these artists come together in this project The End of Travelling to examine what it is to produce today, in which the production of the self can only be acceptable to the optical system of the museum art gallery, that sees what it terms of Identity-Nation-Tribe category. How then to carry out a critique of multiculturalism when multiculturalism has been debased into an aesthetic notion of the Other as a retinalized entity?" Sarat Maharaj (Cultural Theorist / Co-curator, Documenta11) Keynote Address: Art Acts Global, Transmediale 3.0, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1 Feb 2003"

Heman Chong geb. 1977 lebt und arbeitet in Singapur und Berlin 1994–1997 Temasek Polytechnic/Diploma in Visua Communication/Singapore 2000–2002 Royal College of Art/Master of Art in Communication Art and Design/London/UK Ausgewählte Ausstellungen: 2003: The Silver Sessions/Künstlerhaus Bethanien/Berlin/Germany The End of Travelling/Galerie Sparwasser HQ/Berlin/Germany In Transit: The Global Soul/Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Berlin/Germany The President’s Young Talent Exhibition/Singapore Art Museum/Singapore Isabelle Cornaro geb. 1974lebt und arbeitet in Paris 1992–1996 École du Louvre (History of Art)/Paris/France 1997–2002 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts/Paris/France Ausgewählte Ausstellungen: 2003: The End of Travelling/Galerie Sparwasser HQ/Berlin/Germany 2002: 24 hours of the Inversed World/Looking Glass Gallery/Brussels/Belgium Rendez-Vous/Matrix Art Project/Brussel/Belgium Campus Europ Art/Nantes/Cergy/Saint-Denis/Lyon…/France Single Screen/Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center/Copenhagen/Denmark	Heman Chong Heman Chong is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2003) in Berlin. His trans-disciplinary practice involves the usage of graphics, photography, text, video in the exploration of mobility/nomadism, cinema/off-screen spaces, urbanity and increasingly, socio-political issues concerning the production of contemporary visual art in Asia. He has exhibited in many countries including Belgium, Denmark, France, Japan, India, Spain, Singapore and the United Kingdom. He holds an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art, London. Isabelle Cornaro Isabelle Cornaro works primarily with drawings, text and video that are presented within a framework where one medium interacts with another. Her work deals with the concept of authority implied and imposed upon by constructed spaces (modern architecture, French gardens, etc) and is influenced by the work of science-fiction writers. She has exhibited in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Cornaro studied at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and École du Louvre (History of Art), Paris and currently live and works in Paris. Manray Hsu Manray Hsu is an independent curator (z.B. Taipei Biennial 2000, How big ist the world/O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art/Linz) and art critic based in Taipei and currently in Berlin. His main focus is an anthropological model of curatorship, art and discourse - based on the question of the democracy of intimacy, postcolonial and urban theory.