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Kai-Oi Jay Yung exhibits at Manchester Cornerhouse
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'Kai-Oi Jay Yung'. Copyright: The artist
AIR member Kai-Oi Jay Yung exhibits in Unrealised Potential, a collaborative group exhibition instigated by artist/curator Mike Chavez-Dawson.
Kai-Oi Jay Yung is a UK based interdisciplinary artist whose work splinters migration, language and ritual, compulsively led by the need to reconfigure borders, identities and ways of living. Through performance or enactment of making, her process spills across disciplines, voices and platforms.
She follows her recent discussion series Chinese Art and Globalisation at Manchester's Cornerhouse gallery with a group show at the same venue. Unrealised Potential (to 12 September) aims to explore the creative potential of artists' unrealised projects, blurring the lines between artist, curator, visitor and producer.
For the show Jay Yung presents Rave Joy Mobile - an installation that offers visitors the opportunity to purchase the right to interpret and realise an idea. This includes entering a sound-proofed box and being wheeled out of the Cornerhouse, placed in a van and driven to a nearby beech. It is then up to you to make your way back from the beech. For every return journey a tree will be planted.
Other artists whose ideas feature in the show include Simon Patterson, David Shrigley and Richard Wilson. Liam Gillick's PLANTA DE ANODIZADO also becomes the first realised project from the exhibition. Gillick originally proposed that all the products and services made by Mexican company LGD LUCK SA be exhibited and displayed in a gallery context. Artists Brian Reed and Len Horsey have now realised and reconceptualised Gillick's original idea by transforming the space into a mock business fair pavilion, advertising the products of the Mexican company LGD LUCK SA.
For more details on Jay Yung’s installation click here »
Read Jay Yung’s interview with Jobs and Opps online editor Kate Brundrett here »
Click here » for more information on Unrealised Potential and a full list of featured artists.
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Jack Hutchinson
First published: a-n.co.uk July 2010
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