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​Astro World
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Kun Art Centre, Beijing, China, 2020
​Astro World (Exit Plan) was held in June, 2020 at Kun Art Gallery, Beijing, CN. It began as an art exhibition set for my  art students, which grew into an edifying experiment aiming to breakdown  educational stereotypes  between art student, art teacher and working artists. The exhibition was international in scope (fundamental to the premise) – artists hailed from Germany, China, Poland, Taiwan, Canada and Britain. The  participating artists ages ran from 17 years to 61 years, all at different stages of their careers. Astro World (Exit Plan) meant to challenge pedagogies of the art world. Marcel Duchamp once said " ... whatever adjective is used, we must call all it art. ".

Student-artists were in awe of exhibiting in a  gallery and the fact that "strangers" might "judge" their art. Art teachers felt awkward, being "pinched" between student artists and senior artists whom often lived off sales of their art. Some of the professional artists were offended by being asked to exhibit with students and teachers. Others that said they would never show along side of one another.  Fitting into two of the three categories, I suppose it was all selfish on my part as I wanted to see what would happen (3rd Practice Projects). KUN Art is an art education museum found in central Beijing. Significantly, it is located in a very popular mall and gallery-goers are usually anything but art lovers, seeing art as "art" not as catagories.
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  • HOME
  • Present - 2016
    • Sound and Vision
    • Video work present - 2014
    • Photography 2012 - present
    • Mixed-media
    • Audio work 2014- present
  • PERFORMANCE | SOCIAL PRACTICE
    • Ink Me in Beijing 2017
    • Screen Time
    • Shantou Tea 2012
    • Blue Shirt - recordings 1992, 2016
  • Investigations
    • Grand World 2016
    • Brick-collage 2008
    • Super Bar Street Project 2003
    • SideWalk Project 2002 -06
    • Synaptic Pop 2005- pres
    • Streetgames
    • Stamp Project 2004
    • Salt Licks 2000 -02
  • 3rd Practice Projects
    • #3rd Practice Theory
    • Astro World - 2020
    • Jus' Toying Around - 2017
    • Illegal Aliens 2015
    • All Art or No Art 2012
    • 798 Takeout 2014
    • Home Away from Home - 2006
    • Triangle Space 2006
  • Curating
    • thoughts on curating
    • I Think There for, 2018
    • In|Outsource - 2015
    • Take Out (Dao Bao) 2011-13
    • Bug City 2003
    • From > To 2002-03
  • ABOUT
    • Contact | CV | BIO
    • Biographies
    • Archived work
    • Music
    • Art Instructor Under Construction