We have put some love into the site and have added some of the proposals that artists art making real for the set of Cantocore shows.

Luther Thie's Overturn

One interesting project is Luther Thie’s Overturn which literally will require people at the show opening to overturn a vehicle. Thie goes onto state:

Overturn is the idea as starting point for a series of artworks in various media that depict or enact overturns of some kind. The germination image is of a hauling truck at an excavation site overturned onto a mountainside in China. Its cargo strewn down the hillside creates the predicament — the moment of not knowing how to right a problem situation, what to do after the overturning. Overturn can be defined as to upset, turn over, or to cause ruination as in the overthrow of a government, to reverse or invalidate a conviction and the state of having been overturned.
The interpretation of the work will inevitably be colored by the relationship between China and the United States. Is one country being overturned by the other? Are cultural assumptions being overturned by the continuing globalization patterns of international trade and consumption?
Get a Chinese “Crazy Soldier” truck (the Chinese version of the American Hummer) and as a performance, flip it over onto its side/top. Leave it installed as the final work for the show and have it accompanied with a video of a hummer in a perpetual tumble down a mountain.

Chinese Military Hummer

Funny enough, Luther talked about how he might track down the unofficial Chinese Hummer copy, roughly translated to “Crazy Boy.” While there is this consumer copy, the Chinese military has a nice copy of the hummer show above. Actually, they are one in the same!

There is an interesting space to in the copying of intellectual property cross-border such as a hummer. Will copying the hummer also replicate the problems of Hummer’s parent company in shipping units in spite of all-time high gas prices in America. Hopefully the Chinese copy will have better gas mileage!