This exhibition is a gathering of artists, architects, and urbanists exploring questions arising from modernization, globalization, introduction of new technologies, and explosive population growth in Asian cities.
Artists react to themes of consolidation, complexity, reciprocity, acceleration, and traffic.
Conflict between regionalization and urbanization, modern values and traditional values, as well as negotiation of the current financial crisis, concern many of the eighty-seven artists in the show. In its entirety, Cities on the Move provokes discussion of more universal issues in visual and architectural cultures, as well as social changes that extend beyond the borders of continents. Artists' projects are linked together and react to one another, while the exhibition itself is reinvented for each new venue. Existing and imaginary cities are embodied in projected and virtual media, architectural models, photographs, pictures, and installations. Previously on view at the CAPC in Bordeaux, Cities on the Move will travel to the Louisiana in Denmark, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki, and then to Bangkok as a city-intervention project, following its presentation at P.S.1 Support for Cities on the Move at P.S.1 is provided, in part, by Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, and the Chinese Information and Culture Center, operated by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.