KEN LUM/CAUSA: CENTRE/SURROUND art exhibition

Ken Lum, Image: The Hnatyshyn Foundation

This exhibition highlights a collaborative interplay of ‘creative’ artist’s practice and ‘purposeful’ curatorial research. The aim of this project is at once affirmative and speculative – it points, persistently, to both a ‘future’ in the ‘past’ and the ‘contemporaneity’ of ‘classical’ Chinese culture.

This exhibition is a curatorial research initiative which addresses an expansive, cross-cultural and trans-generational theme – ‘Chinatown(s) In Motion’.

About the Artist

Ken Lum is an artist born and raised in Vancouver, BC. Lum is co-founder and founding editor of Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art. Lum has exhibited widely, including Sao Paulo Bienal (1998), Shanghai Biennale (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), Liverpool Biennial (2006), Istanbul Biennial (2007), Gwangju Biennale (2008), Moscow Biennial (2011) and the Whitney Biennial (2014). Lum is also active in public art, realizing permanent works in Vienna, St. Moritz, Edmonton, Vancouver, St Louis, Leiden, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Utrecht. He presently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he is a Professor in the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Curators

CAUSA co-founders David Bellman and M. Cynog Evans have worked internationally (since 1980) within a wide curatorial framework that consistently encompasses an expansive network of acclaimed contemporary artists. To date, important exhibition projects have been realized (both independently and with support from major cultural institutions) in close association with an exalted roster of experimental practitioners that includes: Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Iain Baxter&, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, James Coleman, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Nancy Holt, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Keith Sonnier, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

Resources

Cheinman, Ksenia. (2012) “CAUSA – Close Connections: A Bibliographic Exhibition.” Alternative Library Spaces. Retrived online on September 17, 2014 at http://alternativelibraryspaces.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/causa-close-connections-a-bibliographic-exhibition/

KEN LUM: CENTRE/SURROUND continues on display from November 1 until November 30. Exhibition space hours are 6am to 1am Monday – Sunday