FutureEverything - winner of the Lever Prize 2010

Eastman Cheng Workshop

For FutureEverything, Hong Kong-based artist Eastman Cheng will be at Contact for an exchange intervention where visitors and conference delegates are invited to bring items that they connect with their city.  Festival Guests are invited to bring an object they associate with their hometown to exchange for a lovely new item.

Eastman Cheng is Breathe artist-in-residence at the Chinese Arts Centre, 12 May -21 August 2010.

Eastman views an artwork or ‘object’ as a recorder. It visualises experience, records her hands movement and in the act of making, it collects the trace of her heart. For her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Eastman will observe, analysis and create ‘objects’ from the perspective of a foreigner. Life and experience form an important part of her practice and the residency will provide her with time and opportunity to live, learn skills from local practitioners and make new works in Manchester. The experience will enrich her language and bring new elements to her work.

She will create a series of ‘objects’ from her impressions of Manchester and its people, so that these works will imitate British culture. Eastman wishes to ask members of the public to loan sculptural works and make use of them in their homes. Eastman will then photograph these objects in situ. During her residency Eastman will be running a series of workshops at Manchester Art Gallery as a trailblazer for the Asia Triennial Manchester in 2011.

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