AIRPORT: some flying thoughts…

A HUB OF COMMUNICATION/ DISPERSION
Built on the small outskirts of a city, ‘airport’ has been designed and developed as a creative infrastructure ever since the invention of airplane. ‘Airport’ had once been the playing-field of the wealth and elite powers. Nowadays, it becomes a public space of arrival and departure. Being the transit and convergence place for people of different nations and for integration of human intelligence, technology, knowledge and information, ‘airport’ is presented as a transportation and communication hub, replacing and displacing history of humanity.

THE LOCAL MEETING WITH THE GLOBAL
Throughout the history of ‘space travel’ in various cultures, ‘airport’ has also been perceived as a ‘sky metaphor’ for the way people relates themselves to the global life. ‘Airport’, being the most ‘global’ location of a city, is probably one of the most ‘public’ places, where people of different identities/ ethnicities meet. ‘Airport’ also epitomizes a tension when localization is meeting with globalization. Nowadays, ‘airport’ demarcates the boundary in-between local and global. ‘Airport’, like anywhere, is both a location both local and global.

IDENTIFICATION
People identify themselves with a place for its history, heritage, socio-economic life or whatever reasons. ‘Airport’ embodies a ‘public identity’ but what an artist identified is something more or something different. ‘Airport’ is a built spatial structure, where one’s identity is about to elevate/ mutate/ evolve/ shift…. Departure and flying in most airports over the world startles one to leave the local and confront the global. As the extended territory of one’s innermost/ personal/ psychological interest, ‘airport’ is projected and idealized as a dreamland. The outside, opposing, collective world is romanticized, with the neglect of potential uncertainty and hardship of life. Being the final point of national security/ custom control/ health check on the one hand, and the starting point of ultimate freedom and new life on the other, ‘airport’ dramatizes life experiences out of paradoxes.

A VISUAL METAPHOR
‘Airport’ is a visual metaphor; or a name for high style and cool infrastructure. It epitomizes a forward-looking and avant-garde idea. And it is associated to a filmic quality, to which the generic scenes of departure and sorrow, reunion and happiness, waiting and waiting that one often refers. It embodies a diversity of sensation and reaction to time-based flying: a smile of contentment, a gesture of identification or a feel of diaspora, displacement, dislocation, etc. One could perhaps understand from the Japanese adjective ‘空 (empty)’ preceding the character ‘港 (airport)’, i.e. “a place without substance, without specific nationality, or a situation devoid of sweet and lingering memories…”

PROBLEMATICS OF GLOBALIZATION
‘Airport’ helps one to confirm to international standards and collective behaviors in short period of flying. Global collectivism is the basis of world success and it is also the problematic of globalization. The global world of ‘Airport’ was once conceived as a warm-bed for pandemic disease and extreme terrorism. Semantically the spread of informative and communication technology in the global age prepares the ground for human connectivity via trans-national/ inter-continental networking. Metaphorically, this macro system of non-spatial networking can be associated to the micro-structure of virus or biological growth, mutation and interactive infection.

FLYING AWAY WITH REALITY
Aircraft, aviation, flying machine or whatever, being the link between local and global, tradition and modernity, is the vehicle visualizing ‘high-level’ traveling and ‘high-style’ living. It amazingly connotes action, speed, efficiency, flexibility and fluid transformation, the given definition of a modern/ global city. It offers both the physical and metaphorical space for one to escape reality and confinement of boundary. It takes one to overcome gravity, i.e. to fly over rocky mountain in order to overview the brave new world from new angles. With airplanes, one also recollects childhood and sweet memory in association with flying paper plane, children toy, online air-jet-game and virtual bungee jumping from helicopter, etc.

A SOCIAL FLYING MACHINE
Everyone needs dream. Every city also needs dream. Throughout the ages, flying in high sky is believed as the most exciting dream of everyone and the dream constitutes an integral part in the great evolution of human history. Climbing up the hierarchical social ladder takes time and taking a first-class travel could psychologically step up the progress. Flying high without limitation hinges on a psycho-reversion of social order in terms of class, status, wealth, health…, etc. Collecting luggage from airport conveyor belt also resembles life experience to the cruel twist of fate up-coming...

What indeed constitutes the synthesis of an “airport”? How artists relate themselves to airport with other people differently? How the public/ passengers relate themselves to art in/ for airport? This new trans-national/ cross-spatial/ cross-disciplinary project AIRPORT is set out to convert alternative spaces of the Asian cities (with the starting point of E6 in Shenzhen) to a micro-condition of an alternative airport. The project raises questions on flying, and the way airport corresponds to individual, psychological, non-material aspirations and needs. It interrogates how ‘the local’ is facing with ‘the global’ or how ‘the global’ and ‘the local’ concept is becoming a form of oneness. It is a project exploring the psyche, and the interchange of the subjectivity and the objectivity in the age of fleeting globalization. It also serves to review an aspect of mind and/or memory: the spatial transfer of identity in-between spaces/ or disordered public spaces…I expect this exhibition can forge further discursive debates.

A PLATFORM OF EXCHANGING IDEA
In an age of global interchange, the AIRPORT project itself is a platform of exchanging idea and a hub of interconnection among 15 groups of professional from round the globe. Project Airport evokes some flying thoughts, and displaces defined visual forms and preordained boundaries of architecture, installation, painting, video, music, live performance, web art, poster design, poem and etc. It is a collaboration among Asian artists and architects in the SPACE E6, the sole alternative space in Shenzhen, which is noted for its being earliest/ fastest/ exemplary boom of Chinese magnetic modernization and exponential growth of culture over the past twenty years in the trans-China region of Pearl River Delta (P.R.D.). With a touch on Shenzhen’s latest development and experimentation, the exhibition will arrive back home to Hong Kong with new excursions and experimentations.

LIN Hanjian

空港…

…沟通枢纽
伴随飞机的发明，占城市小片接境的「机场」被设计、开发成人工智能汇集的产物。「机场」曾经是权贵精英荟聚的领域；时至今日, 「机场」只是市民大众出境、入境的一个公共空间。它是运输、转接和汇合不同国家民众和汇聚人类智能、科技、知识和信息的地方, 「机场」综合化成为人类运输和沟通的插槽，让各项智能活动从中延伸扩张，人文的历史也在此延展和巅覆。

…地方主义遇上全球主义
在慢长的历史进程和迥异的文化景遇下，「机场」在空中旅程上展示了多样化的性格和意义，亦是地方公民展示其富差异性国际生活方式的接口。「机场」作为城市中最具「全球性格」的场域, 大抵亦是城市中最「公开」/「公众」 的一个地方, 当中不同文化身分、不同族裔的国际旅客穿梳往来、离合聚散。「机场」 可能是地方主义冲上全球主义的紧张地段，亦可以是两者缝合的中间领域。今日, 机场游移于地方主义和全球主义两地之间，亦把两者的界线芜糊化起来。「机场」，一像其它众多地方, 既有地方景致，也具全球性格。

…体认之所
一个受认同的城市，总有其社会、经济、历史、文化传承或其它的一些基本或魅力因素；「机场」有其精彩、受认同的「公众身分」。「机场」虽也是艺术家所体认的地方，当中投射了颇为回异的心理因素。「机场」作为是一个空间建构, 是国际艺术旅程的起点，也将是艺术人生历奇的首站…离开本上故地、闯进国际全球性环境，艺术家个人内心的心理思虑，还有当中的升降浮沉、演变转移，他者又岂易理解？「机场」作为艺术家心理因素的繁衍、延伸地，可算是一个理想的精神乐土；潜在不确定的外地生活往往被忽视，富竞争、艰难幻变的现实世界亦往往被浪漫化为理想的居停。「机场」既是入境旅客过关进行身体检查、身分辨证的关口，是守护城市集体安全的最终点；也是亚州艺术家/个人走向自由世界的始初点。「机场」正正把生活经验的各种矛盾，戏剧化地呈现在同一关口/环节上。

…视觉隐喻
「机场」是一个视觉隐喻：它隐喻高科技式样和酷冷前卫的设施；「机场」一方面代表一个先锋派、前瞻性的想法;这种想法的另一面则包含一种电影的质量和景观：「机场」内哀痛缠绵、悲壮华丽的离别场面与期待又期待、久别团聚的幸福场景，咫尺之内，一起缠绕。「机场」展示了多种因应短暂飞行而产生的人文感觉和错纵无常的心理变化: 或开心欢聚、或别乡流亡。或许观众能从这国际计划的日本语标题「空港…」的「空」字中有所感应, 「机场」即隐喻一个没有实质内容, 没有固定国籍身分,仅能盛载萦绕回忆的空间..."

…全球主义的问题
国际机场是典范、复制人类共通行为的宿主。短范的飞行生活渗透着集体行为的规范和统一，这种集体的服膺正是全球成功的基础，也是全球主义问题的所在。曾几何时，体现全球主义的「机场」,竟被认为是传染病的温床，而在空中抗行全球主义的极端主义、分离主义、恐怖活动亦和「机场」扯上关系。在全球村落年代，生活讯息和信息科技的传播，正为人类跨洲越国的连系做好准备；在某种意义来说，这个超然的国际网络系统竟又可跟人体内的微结构宇宙 (微生物体的成长、交叉感染和以病毒形式进化) 混为一谈。

…飞行现实
飞机、航空或各式各样的飞行工具,链接了传统和现代、地方社区和全球村落；形象化了「高空」旅行和「高雅」生活的极致。它有趣地隐含「全球城市」的指定定义: 跃动、迅捷、高效能、高弹性和敢于流动变革。它为跳脱现实界限提供物理性和隐喻性的空间-它是人类克服传统地心引力的载体, 助我们穿墙过室、飞越高山流水、勇闯新地貌、探索新视角、新文化地景。许是纸飞机或飞行玩具,定还是网上虚拟的飞行游戏、在空中飞行的笨猪跳等，都是那幺真真实实、甜美的童稚记忆！

…社会化的飞行机器
个人需要梦想，城市也需要梦想。自古至今，在高空飞行总被认为是最扣人心弦的梦想，这梦想也是人类城市爬升发展的原始动力。攀上社会高梯需假以时日，买票乘坐头等机舱，加快爬升步伐，似是轻而易举。高空飞行，时来运转、心理上足以改变社会秩序、阶级、位置、财富、健康形势...等状况，在机场输送带静候行李，也似生活中对「转运」的渴求。

什幺构成「机场」这综合体的基本元素? 艺术家怎样建立自己有别于其它旅客/ 国际公民对机场的联系? 「机场」的旅客/ 国际公民又怎样建立自己与机场/ 机场公共空间/ 机场公共艺术的联系?这个跨国界/跨空间/ 触及多个学术领域的新艺术合作项目以「机场」为命题，计划把亚州城市的另类空间 (以深圳E6为首站) 转换成另类机场的微状况。本计划亦将提出一些有关飞行的问题, 并且研讨各种响应机场的个人、心理, 非物质性的渴求和需要。本项目亦探索地方主义和全球主义的面接过程，以及两者的溶合为一。这项目探索在急遽短暂的全球主义下主(艺术家/ 心灵) 客体 (国际机场/ 飞行工具)的转移、位置互换；并试图剖析艺术家心灵/ 记忆的某些状况: 在转移的空间/ 扭曲的公共空间下自主身分的转移…我期待这个展览的触媒作用能持续发酵。

在物质互换频仍的全球主义年代，这个以「空港…」为命题的艺术项目将缔造湛新的意念交换平台；它也是国际社区中，十五组不同专业背景的艺术工作者传达及接收文化信息、艺术想法的公共插槽。「空港…」将带来一些飞行的想法，移换各种视觉美学、语言形式和媒体界线；这里，建筑、绘画、海布、装置、录像、古琴、诗歌、表演、互联网艺术等将在E6另类展场中混溶一体。E6位处于「超中国式样」的珠三角深圳市特区华侨城OCT-LOFT创意文化产业园内。廿年以来，深圳市特区是中国/珠三角现代化历程上发展最早及最快的先锋样板城，其近年在文化领域的触目发展将在「空港…」计划中予观众深刻的体会。展览在E6结束后将回到香港进行其它形式的实验。

林汉坚

YANG Yong (Painter/ Photographer| Shenzhen/ Sichuen)
Yang is one of the promising artists in China. His works take a daily-life angle to capture the rising tension between the superfluous glamour of the urban material world of today and the relentlessness uncertainties of pre-industrial environment of the Chinese city he is living in. In close dialogue and collaboration with other Chinese artists, his new work will convert the whole gallery space of E6 to an outdoor space of an international airport.

URBANUS (Architects Xiaodu Liu, Yan Meng and Hui Wang| Shenzhen/ Beijing)
Urbanus and other Shenzhen artists considerate the importance of collaboration when experimenting new works in alternative space. They will convert the whole Space E6 to an alternative airport context with renewed meanings.

HAPPENING GROUP (Andy Tam, Vincent Pang, Man Lee, Yip Chun Yin| Hong Kong) "AVIANINFLUENZA/ H5N1/ AIRPORT"
This art performance conducted by the Happening Group will be based on globalization, ecology, socio-economic concerns that the world will finally be merged and integrated via the “birth” of technology and information. Yet, the most crucial micro-virus threats, for instance, AIDS, SARS, and H5N1 etc, have started to establish a faster networking as the macro info-techno system. The performer will act, as an anti-gent, to place some invisible marking (i.e. to spread the viruses) to every audience through some normal behaviors, for instance, by shaking hands, hugs, or various gestures etc. Under normal circumstances, the audiences would not be aware that they are “marked” and “infected”. However, the “marked” and “infected” audience would become visible/ noticed by using or scanning via the ultra-violet light. Since all marks are “ultra-violet light” sensitive. In addition, this performance will be multi-media, with a video screening being displayed inside the exhibition hall. The video will show the mutation and growth of microorganism, in parallel with the development of Hong Kong/ Shenzhen city. This concept is also based on Song Dynasty’s Ching Ming Sheung Hoi Toa, which is about ‘city density’ during a festive day. This renowned landscape painting demonstrates the growing urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, as a metaphor of microorganism. This art performance will be environmentally concerned, time-based and situational. It will be a metaphor to ignite people’s thought about the current situation and interactive relationships between human beings, microorganisms, and info-structural developments. The art performance in SPACE E6 will take inspiration from globalization, ecology, socio-economic concerns that the world will finally be merged and integrated via the outburst of technology and information, However, the most important micro-virus threats, for instance, AIDS, SARS, and H5N1, have seemingly established an even faster networking as info-techno system in the air-travel era.

Shuen-git CHOW (architectural sculptures, digital gugin, painting| Paris) “Magic Flying Machine” (2 m x 2 m x 75 cm h)
http://www.hosting.zkm.de/MIDIguqin
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Shuen-git+Chow/13880.html

Artist Shuen-git Chow will exhibit an architectural-sculpture model of the "Magic Flying Machine" with a 24 hr CD of original Digital Guqin music playing from two small speakers and a CD-player.  The piece shown is a 1:10 scaled model of a walk-in sculpture. The actual sculpture is 5 meters high. The model will be set in a display stand with a transparent protective hood.  The project will be on display to the public at an airport. The full-scale version is a walk-in-space where people could take a moment to relax and listen to an original composition of Digital Gugin music. The show in E6 will be located in a special space designated for quiet moments. For details concerning the Digital Guqin research-creation and its team members, please go to the links enclosed above.  The "Magic Flying Machine" is a walk-in sculptures to be installed in urban, public parks as a semi-translucent space, designated for quiet intimate listening moments, for which people can take time to enjoy views, bird songs, and guqin and digital guqin music.

PAK Tozer (Conceptual/ Performance artist| Hong Kong) “WaitingForAFriend (without Appointment)” (42 cm x 28 cm)
Pak will create an airport version on this artwork in 10 photos: " WaitingForAFriend (without Appointment)". This time he will wait for a friend in the HK Airport, without appointment. But the problem is he doesn’t know how long he needs to wait for a friend here, maybe 1 day, maybe 10 days? (Detail: http://oneeyeman.blogspot.com/2007/04/17.html)

Jolans FUNG (Photographer/ painter| Hong Kong) "Planewellsky- Trace of Seven Coincidences"
Jolans Fung sees photography as an encounter between man and reality. The images of reality are the agents for the understanding of real personal thoughts/ emotional communications. In the capturing of these images that contain different space-time/ decisive moments, Fung combines different pieces of image as a whole. In the SPACE E6, he will use the airplane images to arouse imaginations to interpret this coinciding world from multi-facets. The skyline and imageries of the former Kai Tak Airport will be turned into a collage, which displays that the real capacity of photographs can go beyond margins. Fung likes to explore a person’s sentiments and emotions through his lenses. "By using images to induce imaginations, we, human beings, can once again re-discover our innate senses of touch", says Fung.

HYBRID SPACE LAB (Architect Elizabeth Sikiardi and Frans Vogelaar| Amersterdam) "IDENSITY" (30 min)
This video project represents a prototype for the new interdisciplinary field of urban design and planning of ‘Soft Urbanism’. It researched into the transformations of architectural/urban space of the emerging ‘information/communication age, and explored the dynamic interaction of urbanism/ airport design and the space of mass media and communication networks.

REN Qian (Audio Artist| Chongqing) "Echo"
The audio work of Ren Qian takes sound records from his air travel from Shenzhen back to hometown Chongqing and from sound track pertaining to the 911 incident.  His works examines the complex relationship between art, artist, the general public and general interest. He audio-tapes sound of airport as well as the soft narration among airhostesses. Visitors can experience the power of sound plays in an alternative venue.

WANG Xiao Fei (Installation artist| Hainan) "What the Fuck Do You Want? (Animation 3:17 mins & Installation" (800 × 800 × 500 cm)
Wang likes t parody the defined boundaries in-between different nations in the era of globalization and Wang’s paintings usually express the facial feelings of fear, tension and anxiety of buzy passengers awaiting in different airports. And Wang’s aircraft projects usually take the site-specific strategy. In E6, the artist will convert the gallery space to an environment of aircraft. Airplane is our common transport vehicle in modern life, mega-traffic media and economic problems behind the planes are the concerns of artist. "I will be filling the small airplanes everywhere in the gallery, just as dancing or physical training. In the face of the high prices of the true planes, Is it a flirt, or a demonstration?...Plane is the only traffic media to common people, but the competitiveness of the airplane industry has evolved into an economic competition. Airbus, McDonnell, Boeing and the three giants as you know have a very large competitiveness for a long time. How to compete and become the last winner in the numerous mergers? As a familiar transport system, what is behind-the-scene? ...A profound fear can not be hidden," says Wang.

WONG Yui Hin, James (Conceptual artist| Hong Kong) “Traveling Abstraction”
Wong’s works are much connected with displacement and dislocation. Wong’s exhibits will be a series of painting on various airports critically selected (i.e. J. F. Kennedy Airport, NYC; Heathrow Airport, London; Abu Dhabi Airport; Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris; Halifax Airport, Canada, Beijing International Airport), to which the artist during his exhibition tours visited.

LEUNG Meeping (Installation artist| Hong Kong/ California) "Expected Departure"
Rendering an installation in 16-20 light boxes showing x-ray imagings of disposable bags around the world, for which the artist collected during her walking/ traveling & wandering around different cites. There is nothing special if one tries to see through the X-ray image of disposable bags that are most often found inside the compartment of jet plane, as the perception of a sickness disposable bags are not only about physical reactions. From one distance to another, unstableness, floating, etc. are “sensations” often within the artist even when there’s no traveling. Somehow, Leung has been trying to settle down in Hong Kong, during which she gets a similar feeling… Diaspora is a state of ‘mental sickness’ and Leung’s work will try to convey a psychological state of ‘homesickness’ or ‘inability’, in association to the physical departure from one’s homeland. The enjoyment of flying as a global life is being confronted with a personal state of phobia.

HOANG Ly (Performance artist/ Poet| Hochiminh) "Flying"
Hoang will contribute a thought-provoking poem about “fastening of seat belt’ and the third–world’s dream of flying.

SERVER FOUNDATION (Media Collective| Perth/ Singapore) "Airport of Airports"
www.server-foundation.org/aoa

Airport of Airports will be a more research-based and inter-disciplinary. Airports are often seen as nodes which process the mass movement of people and where everything in it is organized around the idea of movement. Server Foundation is interested in the information which airports produced from its processing of people, flights, identity and security.  Airport of Airports is a net art piece which based on the study of 10 international airport websites. For this work, Server Foundation will act like “DJs” mixing with the 10 airport websites in order that the audiences will have to surf through the different countries at one time. It will be a kind of surfing from place to place, and site to site.

ZHANG Dali (Designer artist| Shenzhen) "Culture Take-Away"
Zhang relates our daily life to the ubiquity of ’bag’, which appears in different forms serving different functions. "There are epsodes pertaining to ’bag’. It is unknown whether culture is as multifarious as ’bag’. Perhaps our head is also packed in a bag one day. Stories however proceeds...," Zhang says. By weaving wooden fibre into a hand-carry case, he uses his case, which is inscribed with illegible characters and texts of Dao De Jing wriiten by Lao Tze, a Chinese philosopher in the Early Qin period, on the surface to explore the problems of language, communication and cultural conflict in the era of a contemporary world.

about SPACE E6
As a multi-disciplinary art space platform for contemporary art, architecture, graphic design, film and experimental music, Space E6 aims to stimulate interaction among all kinds of art media and offers a platform of communication and presentation for artists, architects and designers in the forms of exhibition, event, and project collaboration.  The alternative atelier SPACE E6 is situated in the OCAT-LOFT, the first cluster of contemporary art and creative industry in Shenzhen. Its members include URBANUS Architecture & Design Inc., artist Yang Yong, Teng Fei, as well as the Graphic Design Studio Huang Yang & Associates.

about MOST
MOST (Museum of site) is an alternative space co-founded by Andrew Lam, Andy Tam, Wong Tim Keung and many leading artists in China-Hong Kong in 1997. MOST concerns itself with the issue of globalization and community engagement. Its members initiated a number of public events for Asia and their video or performance activities were engaged with Kwangju Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, ITPark, Whashang Art District, Blue Space, Lost generation Space, Wanakio Art Center, Bambur Curtain Studio, Old Ladies House, Chaiyi Warehouse, BASH, Art Café @ KL’s National Art Gallery, etc.  Recent publication includes Asian Alternative Spaces-World Alternative Cities, Delta Crisis_analysis, Indirection and various exhibition catalogues.

作品简介

策展人林汉坚、杨勇及都市实践，将联同深圳一地的艺术家把E6易容为该城市的另一个空间机场。他们将协助其它艺术家重新发掘、以机场的视觉和声音元素再现。

发生社的开幕表演《禽流感/H5N1/飞机场》从这世纪疫症沙士及其它传染病的全球旅行中联想，发现地区病毒通过国际旅客，以飞机作全球载体，由一城市传播至另一城市。他们的表演让「过关」进入E6的观众在不知不觉间感染「病毒」，…表演期间，与深圳香港双城一时当代、共生共存的病毒变体，有如双城无序发展般的突变、异变、扩张、繁衍的微细过程，将有录像同步放映。

任前是重庆的艺术家。「回，也是一个回忆，轮回。这些声音唤起了艺术家对个人旅行体验，普通民众在机场和飞行器上的这一公共和特殊空间中的身份转移，同时也唤起了我们对在全球主义和恐怖主义中失去生命的灵魂祈祷。回，也是回家，返回。音，既是声音，声波传递的概念，也有乡音，地方口音，国际语音等等的杂糅。」他的作品《回音》以喇叭播放从深圳回重庆时在航空港和飞机上随机录制的声音（美国911事件时的声音/飞机起飞轰鸣声/在飞机上采集的国际/地方语言-普通话/英语/四川话/广东话）。作品探讨在全球化、信息化下，艺术、艺术家和大众以及公共利益之间的复杂联系。当中的声音既有对机场现实场景的展示，又有轻松幽默或者空姐们温柔的闲话。让观众在这个声音的场域中体验声音艺术的力量。海南王小飞的《隔离墙》装置，是敌对的两方或为了阻止敌方人员进入本国而设置的围墙，隔离墙就是一种限制，在全球一体化的背景下，政治限制，文化限制，种族限制，宗教限制，高科技限制…，形成一道道有形或无形的隔离墙。《搞什幺飞机》投射動畫装置，则以飞机把展场变成飞行的场域。

香港二楼五仔成员白双全的观念摄影作品《(没有约会)等候朋友》，是他和朋友相约在香港国际机场见面的照片纪录。未知这个未曾预先约定的聚会可会用上一天、甚或十天的等候时间? 未知他的朋友会否惊讶他的及候？冯文耀一向对香港旧启德机场的天空影像感到好奇和炫惑。他的照片作品《七巧板》，概念源自中国儿童的传统小环意，内容却带着对当世时空的个人触觉；其作品以多个映象画面拼凑出作家对城市的多重观察和视觉。

巴黎建筑艺术家周旋捷的项目《飞飞照月》为一太空飞船-建筑巨雕。它跟原型雕塑的比例约为1:10。作品为一半透明公共环境景观装置。计划原构思安置于公园或国际机场内，当公众进入其范围内，整个环境便转化为令人舒怀的数码古琴音乐空间。周旋捷的建筑模型将为E6的新机场空间重塑文人艺术的传统素质。荷兰建筑组合「异空间实验室 HYBRID SPACE LAB」的媒体作品《身份城市IDENSITY》 是先验性新都市设计的原型。其设计广泛引用「跨学科」的智能及建基于「软件都市」营造法式的灵活应用。在变异空间实验室的都市规划下，超常跃动、混杂而富活力的机场设计建立了与城市传媒及讯息系统的互动关系。

我们外出，身边总离不开「包」: 背包、 腰包、手提包…等等。深圳的张大力指出:「包中有春秋，我们的文化是否也象品种多样的各款包一样，无法尽知。某一天打开，也许我们的大脑也会在这「包」中。但事情总会这样走下去…」 张大力的体块作品《文化打包》，用木皮编织成箱，表面印有错乱重迭的<老子道德经>文字，当中呈现了失语的状态、文化的冲突，以及文字难以解说的事。

北京的颜磊自2002年起以国际机场/攀升为题创作一系列绘画作品，当中包括《香港_国际机场》画作，似反映大多数艺术家共通的心理写照机场是艺术家搭乘飞机参与国际展览的欲望场域。王锐显自1992年起便沉溺于《抽像旅行》的绘画及装置系列。这位香港艺术家了将创作展示一系列他有个人经历和立场的机场绘画作品(纽约约翰肯尼迪国际机场、伦敦希斯鲁国际机场、杜拜阿布国际机场、巴黎戴高乐国际机场、加拿大希利佛国际机场、北京首都国际机场等)。旅居洛杉矶和香港的艺术家梁美萍，其装置作品《如期出发》，是一个富魅力和病理分析的个案：作者首先制作了20组照明灯箱，每一灯箱装挂了一张X光底片，底片照着艺术家在不同的天空高度上釆集而来的卫生袋 。X光底片反差、隐现了艺术家因应艺术生活、终年累月作全球旅行的游离；亦透视了个人流落异地、忐忑不安、混乱晕眩的离异心理。来自胡志明市的视觉艺术家和诗人王莉，其作品《飞行》以图像和诗篇文学资源，为深圳的国际观众解读第三世界艺术家的飞行感观。

新加坡的Server Foundation将以互联纲缔造一个包容10个国际机场的研究及影像网站《机场中的机场》，供国际旅客溜览参与。这超国界、跨文化、触及多个学术领域的网站在展览期前前后后，将成为参展艺术家的沟通平台。
 

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