http://cantocore.com Importing and Exporting Culture Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:49:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At present, Cantocore.com is an archive of the two shows, Cantocore Free On Board in San Francisco, and Cantocore: Import/Export in Guangzhou, China. Please contact us if you have any questions about the projects or doing future projects. http://cantocore.com/2009/07/08/cantocore-holding-pattern-as-an-archive/ As the grotto posted, Cantocore Free On Board in SFO is closing on April 18, 2009. That means you still have 18 days to see the show, write reviews, and get into the whole project. Here is more from the announcement: CANTOCORE: FREE ON BOARD AT MISSION 17 CLOSING PARTY APRIL ... http://cantocore.com/2009/03/31/cantocore-fob-closing-april-18/ Tanner Menard looked at the Cantocore project from a distance stating: I have been reading about Cantocore for a number of days totally obsessed by the complexity of the concepts presented on its site http://cantocore.com/, but it was not until I read the following statement that I was really sold on ... http://cantocore.com/2009/03/13/cantocore-online-review-by-tanner-menard/ Guy uploaded the video of his project fully realized in Guangzhou at Cantocore: Import/Export. For Cantocore FOB, he made a video documenting the installation of this huge structure which you can view in full at Mission 17 right now. If you want to talk with Guy more about this project, and ... http://cantocore.com/2009/02/27/guy-overfelts-untitled-up-in-smoke-video-documentation/ Come this Saturday, February 28, 4-6pm to Mission17 and join us for drinks and conversation! This program is free and open to the public. Artists JD Beltran, David Johnson, Guy Overfelt, Jon Phillips, and Kathrine Worel will discuss contemporary art production in the decentralized global economy, with specific emphasis on ... http://cantocore.com/2009/02/24/artists-talk-saturday-4-6-mission17-in-san-francisco/ If you aren't in San Francisco to see Cantocore Free On Board, then you can't see the two-channel video installation that features this piece. Below is a web upload of all segments in their entirety. News Reenactment from Deer Fang on Vimeo. Read more about Fang Lu's piece, and check out her ... http://cantocore.com/2009/02/24/fang-lu-news-reenactment/ Katie Farrell from Art Slant reviewed Cantocore FOB. The piece starts off by stating: The most successful work in Cantocore: Free on Board not only investigates the nuanced layers of trade and culture between Guangzhou and San Francisco, but also incorporates translation/mis-translation, authenticity/reproduction, and the copy-of-a-copy-of-a-translation spirit. Cantocore: Import/Export (2008) was originally ... http://cantocore.com/2009/02/23/cantocore-art-slant-review/ Cantocore: Free On Board is the second installment of a collaborative project between select artists from San Francisco and Guangzhou, China: David O. Johnson, Fang Lu 方璐, Guy Overfelt, Huang Xiaopeng 黄小鹏, JD Beltran, Jon Phillips, Justin Hoover, Kathrine Worel, Lin Fang Suo 林芳所, Misako Inaoka, Wang Ge 王铬, and ... http://cantocore.com/2009/02/23/cantocore-free-on-board-statement/ Thanks to Kathrine Worel, one of the featured artists in Cantocore FOB, we have some new shots of the show. Here is a sampling. I'm putting more on artist's page, and you can visit my flickr page to see more. You know you want to see more! http://cantocore.com/2009/02/22/cantocore-fob-photos-from-kathrine/ 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 ... http://cantocore.com/2009/02/16/thanks-for-coming-out-to-cantocore-fob-opening/