Chinese Everywherism
Wondering why Chinese people and
Chinese products are everywhere I found the notion of Guanxi, that
can be easily translated as relationship or connection. Though there
is also a lot more (confusion) about it as being an 'untranslatable'
word, an important feature to understand Chinese society and the
opposite of how relationships in the western world functions.
“So is it guanxi that
makes that China is everywhere? Without trying to find an answer, I
decided to make my own connected systems, attempting to create my own
myth about guanxi.”
(created in 2015 during a
residency at Da Wang, Shenzhen, China)
Chinese Everywherism
Overview
Chinese Everywherism
Webbing Guanxi
Parts of painting frames
set in a 3-dimensional weblike construction.
Chinese Everywherism
Puzzling with Guanxi's
A
Chinese burr puzzle (Lu Ban lock or Kong Ming lock) is on the verge
of being assembled or just disassembled by a set of ceramic
connecting elements (the guanxi's).
Chinese Everywherism
Walk through Panchang
knot
A
Panchang knot, just before it is tied up, is cut into 25 pieces to
make it possible to walk through this mystic endless knot.
