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Constant Stream: CHINA08 at the RCA

Exhibition
10/05/2008 – 15/05/2008

China today is undergoing massive change. On the one hand, Constant Stream references the current state of China, its centuries of tradition contrasting directly to the fast-changing modern society with a vast potential to impact on global affairs. It also offers a mediated discussion around the barrage of social, political, environmental and economic issues that come out of this vast country.  Constant Stream aims to stimulate not only much needed dialogue between China and other cultures but also between diverse disciplines, such as architecture, art and design, in order to provoke debate, raise social awareness, formulate encounters and facilitate understanding.

 Artists representing all facets of the creative spectrum – from photography and moving image work, design and architecture through to fine art and the applied arts – will be a part of Constant Stream. The Royal College of Art envisages the series of interventions as an opportunity to engage with China as a concept rather than as a fixed entity, as it is so often portrayed today.

 

Primarily in digital format, Constant Stream will open at the RCA and hopes later to travel to other locations. While part of its assignment is to build a digital archive of its journey, the main focus of Constant Stream is on the processes of intellectual engagement generated by the diverse practices of the various exhibitors, providing a dynamic platform for meaningful exchange. These processes not only reveal the unfolding of insight, but also offering an arena in which to consider contradicting views. Constant Stream will act to highlight these areas of contrast, transformation and reinvention.

ADMISSION: Free.

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