SEPTEMBER SWEETNESS (2008)

I leave tomorrow to join the crew on the installation site at the South Beach Development area. Chaw Ei tells me everything is good so far and sugar structures look fantastic. The only issue now is time, and it's the clock we're racing against. That said, I don't know if I'll have the opportunity to upload material in the next weeks. It's going to be a marathon until the end. So this photo is going to have provide the best approximation of what's to come. Here Chaw Ei and Aung Ko are at the installation site with friends and volunteers preparing the sugar to pour into the fiberglass molds. You can get an idea for how long this is going to take - the structure is made of 5.5 tons of sugar.

A couple of days ago an article mentioning our work was published in the Straights Times. For the first time, I realized how our installation relates to the other works in the exhibition and how it connects closely with the curatorial focus.

+ The Straights Times. It's All Art.

SUPER STRUCTURES

Yesterday I received the invite for the new albb project, Super Structures. The new project is described as:

Collaborative projects hit the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, with artists & designers from Finland, Norway, Sweden & Denmark. Arriving into Vietnam's largest, most intense hub of social and urban change, they have two short weeks to respond to the immediacy of being here.

Super Structures takes the physical grid, the social and economic systems of the city as the starting point. Art is live and responsive, even spontaneous, as localities are scouted, surveyed, negotiated. What are the potentialities of this site & system? What could be infiltrated, grafted or discreetly super-imposed? Will art function as an alien body, an imposition, an irrelevance or a contribution?

Collaboration is an important feature of this laboratory. Participating artists are either collaborative units or will create temporary collaborative structures locally.

It's been a while since I've heard from albb and the new project caught me by surprise. From what I can tell, it looks like a very interesting and ambitious project.

+ albb. Super Structures