page_title: The Invisible Generation
section_title: Shenzhen October 2009
hierarchical_section_title: The Invisible Generation / Shenzhen October 2009
caption_attribution_description: English: Image shows Yang Zhifei's performance in Beijing October 2009.
context_page_description: The Invisible Generation was a contemporary art project conceived by artist Per Hüttner and Curator Daniele Balit and organized by Vision Forum and created new meeting places between art and its audiences. A great number of projects were realized in Melbourne, Shenzhen, Beijing and Kiev in 2009-2010. For each city the program and artist list was totally new. No project was ever repeated twice. The project always allowed the audience to meet art in new and unexpected situations and played with or confused the audiences’ expectations about what art is, where it normally appears and what shape it should take.
  Most projects were realized in contexts where the audience does not necessarily expect to find artwork. In the metro, in a newspaper office, on a public square or even contained as a story in the mind of a person in a shop. In other instances the project played with the perceived immutability of the artwork. The audience was asked to actively create or re-create artwork, remove or destroy drawings, bring books to be changed or in some cases it was disguised as an informative poster, graffity or political propaganda.
  The inspiration and title is taken from a text by William S.
context_section_description: Where the presentation in Melbourne focused on the relationship between suspended instructions in the gallery and interventions in the public space, the project in Shenzhen consisted mostly of unannounced performances in the public space and hosted by the contemporary art museum OCAT. The shift in political, economical, social and architectural context also meant the dynamics of the project changed greatly and made the participation of the local audience more difficult to achieve, but all the more successful on the occasions where it happened. Presentations included carnivalesque costumes appearing in public space as temporary and wearable architectural elements by Natasha Rosling. Yang Zhifei carried a giant white pillow through the streets of the city and she let an army of people sleep in public spaces, each with a normally sized pillow under their head. She also organized a dream workshop to compare the dreams of the Chinese with those of the Dutch. Dinu Li created a choreography of corruption and guilt on the Shenzhen underground provoking fear in the audience and laying bare how deep inside the psyches of its citizens a totalitarian government can reach. Neno Belchev designed a portable zebra crossings to facilitate jaywalking, a passion shared by the Chinese and Bulgarians.
caption: Yang Zhifei's performance in Beijing that was part of The Invisible Generation, October 2009.
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