Project options for YBCA involvement
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Project options for YBCA involvement
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The idea of Cantocore
The primary goal of Cantocore is to extend the dialogue and aesthetics of remaking and reinterpreting identity through artistic collaborations, public interventions, gallery exhibitions, and other public events in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China.
The project will consist of four sections all to occur in both Guangzhou, China and San Francisco:
- Publication of a book/catalogue, and a magazine
- A Clothing Remix/Remake project
- Gallery Exhibitions
- Guerilla Fashion Show
Cantocore Team
- Deer Fang - Guangzhou Producer
- Justin Hoover- San Francisco Producer, Fundraiser
- Jon Phillips - Web Developer and Business Developer
- Sarah Wylie Ammerman - General Project Manager
- Dorothy Santos – Program Support, San Francisco
Supporting Artist/Curators/Institutions
- Chen Tong and the Borges Libria
- Huang Xiao Peng
- Hou Hanru
- Brian Storts and Queen's Nails Annex
- Ellen Zweig
- Matt Hope
- Wang Ge (Wu Xiang Design Studio)
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Option 1: Cantocore Solo Exhibition
This option include following component:
- Fashion Book
- A team of two to three photographers will document Canto fashion on the street. They will record styles and take portraits of people who have interesting fashion. After collecting a good amount of material, these images are to be published in a book with commentary by writers and artists such as Chen Tong of the Borges Libria, the well-known art space, and library (where we will have a colloquium about art and identity, and a book signing).
- Additionally, this publication will take the format of a magazine (or newspaper) to be distributed in the street.
- Clothing Workshop
- Invite artists and designers to participate in a counterfeit clothing workshops to create new works using existing fashions. This will happen both in SF and in Guangzhou, with public fashion shows in both SF and Guangzhou, as public interventions.
- Cantocore Exhibitions
- Curate 2 art shows about using reinterpretation and appropriation as strategy in art production.
- Open call to artists globally to create works. The exhibition first takes place in Guangzhou and tours to San Francisco.
- Artists will be invited to Guangzhou from U.S. and vice versa in low impact residency projects to produce work on this theme for the final show.
- Guerilla Fashion Shows
- A series of guerilla style fashion shows will take place in Guangzhou to release the produced clothing. We will invite models and non-models to demonstrate the new counterfeit clothing in public spaces. These public interventions will take the form of fashion shows on temporary runways in mundane environments such as office buildings, shopping malls, government buildings, and in the street.
Option 2: Cantocore Expanded Exhibition
This exhibition includes Cantocore and three other projects to be exhibited together.
- Train Conference - art fair/conference on a train
- Art fair/conference on a train
- Buy out two cabins, or have a train built.
- Invite artists/galleries/other people to be part and ride the train (one week trip duration)
- Curate series of artworks/talks/performances for the train with the following artists and curators: Ho Honrou, Chen Tong, Huang Xiao Peng, An Wei Wei, Cai Guo Chang, et al.
- The final product is to transport the train cabins to the museum to provide the viewer with the experience as sculpture.
- Install it to recreate it as it was experienced.
- Winnebago
- Go to the Winnebago production factory in China and buy a new Winnebago.
- Fill it with site-specific artworks by Chinese Artists. This mobile show will travel from site to site across China. It will be transported back to the U.S. afterwards with the artworks for a U.S. tour.
- Urban Village
- Focus on the phenomenon of Chinese urbanization and how small villages exist within or on the verge of city.
- Curate exhibition or video screening event to show projects reflect this urban phenomenon.
Budget & Timeline
in USD
- Projected Expenditures
- Overarching: $10,000
- Counterfeit Fashion: $6,000
- Road Trip: $$$
- Train Conference: $$$
- Rural/Urban Development: $$$
- Total: $$$
- Projected Income
- Overarching: $2,800
- Counterfeit Fashion: $7,000
- Road Trip: $10,000
- Train Conference: $$$
- Rural/Urban Development: $$$
- Total: $$$
- Projected Timeline
- Overarching: N/A
- Counterfeit Fashion: 4 Months
- Road Trip: 3 Months
- Train Conference: 2 Days
- Rural/Urban Development: 2 Months
- Total: 18 Months
