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TRAJECTORIES
ARTIST TALK BY MAP OFFICE
DURING THE FINISSAGE OF THE EXHIBITION “BEST OF TIMES WORST OF TIMES”
Time: 3:00pm, March 1 (Sat.), 2014
Venue: Bldg.18, No.50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai
Speaker: MAP OFFICE (Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix)
Language: English (with Chinese Translation)
Free for admission. Please make reservation via info@chronusartcenter.org
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About the Talk
This talk will explore various territories, first through the dynamic trajectories crossing MAP Office’s production, then through a series of contingencies encountered among the philosophical references taken up by the artists. Based in a region where time fluctuates along with borders, economies, and technologies, MAP Office’s practice is read though a series of large installations articulating research material, photographs, videos, objects and archive that were collected over the course of two decades.
About the Artists
MAP OFFICE is a multidisciplinary platform devised by Laurent Gutierrez (Casablanca, 1966) and Valérie Portefaix (Saint-Etienne, 1969). This duo of artists/architects has been based in Hong Kong since 1996, working on physical and imaginary territories using varied means of expression including drawing, photographs, video, installations, performance and literary and theoretical texts. Their entire project forms a critique of spatiotemporal anomalies and documents how human beings subvert and appropriate space. Humour, games, and fiction are also part of their approach, in the form of small publications providing a further format for disseminating their work. Their cross-disciplinary practice has been the subject of a monograph, MAP OFFICE – Where the Map is the Territory (2011), edited by Robin Peckham and published by ODE (Beijing). IN 2013, they were the recipient of the 2013 edition of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
Laurent Gutierrez is an Associate Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he leads the Environment and Interior Design discipline and the Master of Strategic Design as well as the Master in Urban Environments Design. Valérie Portefaix is the principal of MAP OFFICE and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Currently, one of MAP OFFICE’s work The Oven of Straw is exhibited in CAC’s ongoing exhibition “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Revisited” curated by David Elliott.
