I will not be starting my first post with the sad milk story. During my work as a quality control lab manager I will surely have more opportunities to talk about such events ...There is another more enjoyable event going on in Guangzhou. Did you ever hear about the Guangzhou Triennal of Contemporary Art? Well, it's already its third edition. Farewell to Post-Colonialism as a title (http://www.gdmoa.org/gztriennal). Is this the counterpart to the 'shifting-identities.ch' shown in Zurich this summer? Questioning identity and globalization by Chinese and Swiss. Did any of the artists know about the other exhibition, on the (mutually) other side of the globe?
On the third floor a piece of work of a Chinese artist (unfortunately forgot the name), with an installation of an airport as the international free space not belonging to any country. A smoking lounge in the middle, meant to be another controversial item. During the exhibition you are allowed to smoke in this lounge. Wow, smoking in a museum! The debate about non-smoking public spaces 'à la chinoise'. However, it was also Chinese, that the air conditioning didn't work and thus they had to put a hand written sign on the smoking lounge, that one was not allowed to smoke...
The other thing never seen in Europe anymore, the Chinese are so little used to intellectual property, that everyone just goes wandering around and takes pictures of all the art works using bright flashing lights and, evidently mostly with his smiling girlfriend on the front.
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