Travelling paper

If you get a paper like the picture, please write your name and any thoughts down at the back, and mail it somebody else. The important thing here is "Mail", not email. "Handwriting" not typing. We all experience how internet make our life much easier. No exception for me since I made this website. Though, a letter in comparing to an email is perhaps more valuable for most of us. Why is that?

Maybe this is your chance to write to someone who you haven't contact for a long time. Or maybe this can be a surprise for somebody there for you all the time. Maybe.....


If you'd like to have a handmade paper like this, perhaps just as an excuse to write to your goodlooking neighbor or an old friend, email me your address, and I will send you the paper by mail. (The paper look much better in reality than the image)

My email: coccet@gmail.com

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007

Wall+Paper 3, installation in Progress, at Xpace, 58 Ossington Avenue.

This installation was created in response to a show named Wall + Paper curated for Nuit Blanche. I handmade 600 pieces of cotton linter paper pigmented in variety of colors, and then tore each piece into 8 pieces, rolled them into tubes and secured them with paper clips. During the Nuit Blanche, I installed the top section of the wall space I was given, and visitors who come into the gallery were encouraged to fill the rest of the space with paper tubes. Most visitors who interacted with the installation added their own drawings or creations to the paper tubes.

Architecture & Humanity

I've been working on a series called "Architecture and Humanity" in ceramics.

I've been working on a series called Architecture and Humanity in ceramics. The structures have tubes running through their interiors, so you can peek in through various spots I have created. This is one of them. The tubes on each side are hollow, so you can peek in as well. It's about the contrast between interior and exterior. My question here is: Is what you see always what it is? How can you know what's beyond what you see?

RIC

During the summer, i was fortunate to join Jenna & Ryan in Chicago for their Recycling Intervention Committee.

For the 2 days we were there, we build public sculptures in front of Nature Museum of Chicago with recycling materials collected for 5 weeks from 15 households. It was amazing. I've talked with people who pass by the sculptures, and a lot of them were also very concerned with the recycling program they have in Chicago. It was a very fullfilling experience. The weather had also be very blessing for it had been quite sunny but not too hot for the day.
I also met a really quiet but interesting artist who build children toys with cardboard or recycling materials

the army

The Army consists of five functional teapots shaped like military tanks. Each tank has a different design responding to the flag it carries. The flags are of China, The United States of America, Britain, Israel and North Korea. Those countries in my opinion destroy the peace for power. They are the most dangerous in the world right now. Most lids have two miniature figures in different poses attached to them top and bottom. The lids can be switched around.

F.E.W. 2006

Flour+Egg+Water
Flour+Egg+Water (2006) explored the possibility of interaction between artists and strangers in the context of a gallery setting by having the process of making and eat dinner together be the catalyst for initiating interaction. By bring back the traditional method of preparing food into a gallery we challenged the ideology of “efficiency”, “fast food”, and the boundary of “art”.
For the first part of the show, we invited strangers from the streets into the gallery to prepare pasta from scratch. This part of show lasted three nights.



The second part of the show consists of artworks prepared by the 10 artists working for this project. I collaborated with Kelly Kehoe to create Awkward Dinner, in which we invited friends and strangers to have dinner with us over several nights. It started as an intimate dinner of 2-5 people each night. The dinner was video recorded and projected onto two TVs, one facing the diners, one facing towards the street. Passersby were able to communicate with the dinners through a microphone booth outside, and were recorded by the camera.
We decided to host a 20-person dinner for the last night. We invited friends, strangers, and friends of theirs. The whole process is included in the DVD of 24 minutes. It includes:

Chapter 1: 2 Artists + 22 Strangers, November 1, 2006
Chapter 2: All the diners were asked to write a message to say before dinner.
Chapter 3: Kelly Kehoe then interviewed each person while I recorded it on video camera.
Chapter 4: Grace Time: Each diner read the message written by the person on their right. They are video recorded by the person who wrote the message.
Chapter 5: Recording of how people interact with and without food.
Chapter 6: Everyone were asked not to talk for 5 minutes
Chapter 7: Resume to normal, Sue Goldstein interviewed everyone as they eat.
Chapter 8: Diners were given the authority to interview anybody and record it. The diner who has been interviewed then interviewed another diner.
Chapter 9: The awkward ending
Chapter 10: Credits

Name: Post Postmodernism
Dimension: 9’’W * 13’’L * 3.5’’H
Material: Ceramic
Date: 2006

I have included a Pop symbol—coke on ceramic, one of the traditional methods of craft, to state the beginning of a new era, Post Postmodernism.