China Quick-Fix
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China Quick-Fix is principally a photographic archive that documents improvised repairs in China. This phenomena is both ubiquotous and neglected: it is something people do but not something that is dicussed or widely pictured. In this sense it can be understood as an unconscious aethetic that permeates urban space.
The images offer an untypical perspective of contemporary China which simltaneously reveal both the everyday problems people encounter and the solutions they find to them. As such, a close reading of the images brings together collective experience and individual creativity in often surprising ways. The archive began in 2014 and has grown in size and depth since then to encompass several exhibitions, videos, publications, texts and workshops. China Quick-Fix has been supported by The China Institute (SOAS) and Confucius Institute, presented as a solo show by Green Wave Art (Hong Kong), AMNUA Fine Art Museum (Nanjing), H-Space (Shenzhen), Rich-Mix (London), Nothing Gallery (Xiamen) and been published in the journal Performance Research (Routledge).
The exhibition can be accessed through personal mobile devices at Korčula’s St. Mark's Square. This digital art presentation format is organized by the grey) (area and realized in cooperation with the Format C and the Korčula Town Museum. The Wi-Fi Gallery grey) (area has been set up on Pivilion, a free and open operating system developed by Dina Karadžić and Vedran Gligo of Format C. The wireless local area network (WLAN) is freely available and introduces digital artwork automatically, without a password or further action, to anyone connecting with the Wi-Fi network.
About author
Bill Aitchison is a British inter-disciplinary performance artist, curator of Last Minute Live Art and associate professor in the School of Culture and Creativity at UIC Zhuhai. He has presented his performances, soundworks, photography and videos in galleries, theatres and festivals in Europe, Asia, America, Australia and The Middle East and his artworks are held in private collections and museums. He holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London and is a graduate of Ecole de Mime Corporel. He has published critical, creative and journalistic texts in several countries, made a number of works for radio and worked as an actor for both film and stage.
