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MAAP 2001: Excess
MAAP 2001 was curated under the theme of ‘excess’, the first official theme for a MAAP festival.
The theme of excess considered extremes of aesthetics and ideas.
This pertained on the one hand to baroque, indulgent and wasteful tendencies and on the other to the severe limits of minimalism.
Curator Wu Meichun responded to the festival's theme with the new video program Chinese EXCESS, with 21 works of contemporary Chinese art.
Post-Sense Sensibility: SPREE 2001 pushed this notion even further. Documentation of this wild underground performance event in China was edited by the original show's director, Qui Zhijie, for the MAAP Experimental Screening Program. Post-Sense Sensibility now represents a major shift in a underground and experimental Chinese art, displaying a shocking transgressive sensibility, and exploring the tensions of individuality in a communist state.
The screening program continued the examination of excess with a focus on Korea, Thailand and the work of Oh Sang Gil.
The Missile Web Launch saw 2 weeks of artists online projects launched daily. Other highights include two new video installations by Wong GongXin: My Sun and The Prayer, created specifically for the Powerhouse site.
In 2001 the festival expanded into an extensively networked and partnered programming including multi-location events and collaborations. Organisations linked with the festival included the Digital Media Festival (Manilla), Art Centre Nabi (Soeul), the Loft New Media Centre (Beijing), Videotage (Hong Kong), Experimenta (Melbourne) and ANAT (Adelaide).
Footage of the MAAP 2001 Excess Festival
Read more about MAAP 2001: Excess on RealTime Arts.
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