We are still recovering from the great Cantocore Free On Board opening at Mission 17 last Friday. JD sent me a few pictures to post up. If you have some, please do post links in the comments or send to me.
We will have some lovely studio shots coming up this week to show off the work. If you are in San Francisco, the show is up for 2 months until April 18. Also, there is an artist talk at Mission 17 from 4 – 6 PM on April 18.
The installation of projects at Mission 17 is nearing completion and we want to send a big announcement across the lands. If you are in San Francisco this Friday, please do come to the opening of Cantocore: Free On Board. Also, please note that this is 1 of 2 shows. The other show at Mission 17 is imPOSSIBLE! 8 Chinese Artists Engage Absurdity, in conjunction with The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
Both imPOSSIBLE! and Cantocore open on Friday night from 6 until 9 PM. Please come on out! If you’d like to track this on Facebook, be our guest!
Cantocore: Free On Board opens next week in SF. Here is the flier Mission 17 printed up which is inspired by the original that Asem and Pierre came up with for Cantocore in Guangzhou:
Cantocore: Free on Board (Flier)
Also, here is a static image anyone can use to help promote the show:
Guy Overfelt, one of the artists in the show, created an event on Facebook which you should join and share with others.
We are on the eve of announcing Cantocore in San Francisco. Until then, check out this video Justin made showing proposed artwork in a special location in San Francisco’s mission district:
Kathrine Worel, one of the artists in Cantocore Guangzhou and soon to be in the upcoming Cantocore San Francisco, has a new website. Please check out her site and latest works.
Lu wrote over on her blog about Cantocore being featured in the magazine she works for, Art Map:
《艺术地图》2008年10月刊特别报道- PDF
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Go check out her blog posting in Chinese at her site with more writing about the subject.
Here is the document:
Thanks to Heather and Boing Boing for posting up about Guy’s cool piece. Also, thanks for the quote of my text 
Here is the post:
Transmedia artist Guy Overfelt created this massive inflatable “smoke” installation for the Cantocore Export Guangzhou show in China a couple months ago. It follows the thread of Overfelt’s previous Inflatable Trans-AM. From the description of the piece, titled “Untitled” (Up in Smoke):This time the inflatable Smoke is fabricated in Guangzhou, factory direct. Beyond Paul McCarthy-like reductive shapes coming off the assembly line or the Chinese Olympic team leaving the others’ in the dust, the simple shape raises questions about what these factories are pumping out in Guangzhou.
Guy Overfelt’s inflatable smoke (Thanks, Heather Sparks!)
Alex Yeung, the original coiner of the term Cantocore, just sent around this great video of band Smoke Town he played with in Guangzhou doing some hardcore (as in hardcore rock!):
Also, make sure to check out Alex’s other band (not Say Bok Gwai), called Conquest for Death which just played some shows in China:
This nylon material is stuff and cheap! It is very cantocore as well, but not strictly found in the south of china. I wonder why more don’t use this strong material internationally. I think it looks quite cool and interesting.
We got a small plug on Rhizome article by Claire Louise Staunton in her article: “A Short Tour of Three Major Contemporary Art Exhibitions in China.” I just did a vanity search and the good news is that the press release for the project has gotten spread around much, but thinking most art-icles and/or reviews will or will not come out in a week or month.
This is a somewhat new space for me compared with web publishing where if you do anything, it get spread or shed pretty quickly.
