Approaching Nonplace from Marc Lee, UNArt Center First Exhibition, Webseite

Approaching Nonplace from Marc Lee, UNArt Center First Exhibition

Pro Helvetia
Webseite
2019
Chinese, English
Edited and Published by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Cultural Foundation
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Swiss artist Marc Lee will present the new work "Non-Places" at the opening exhibition of "The Kind Stranger" at the UNArt Center. Marc Lee himself will also perform at the UNArt Art Center. This new facility is located in the former site of Dongchang Cinema, the first home theater in Pudong New Area, Shanghai.
"Nonplace" explores urbanization and globalization in the digital age.
In these synchronized videos, visitors walk through the visual world composed of information published on social platforms such as Flickr, Freesound, Twitter and Youtube. Viewers participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey into constantly new image and sound collages in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and similarities. In virtual space, this information is visualized on cubes that rise at different heights to become a kind of skyline which may exist anywhere in the world.