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Banyan Commune Issue 7. Artist Residency #4:
Bald Spot of an eight-year-old Balloon
Curated by
Cathleen Siming Pan
Organized by: Guangdong Times Museum
Lighting Sponsor: Hongri
Special Thanks: Times China
Bald Spot of an eight-year-old Balloon is a community engaged art project created by artists duo aoandaoband (Sam Yi Yao Chao and Toni Zhao) for the Times Museum 4th Banyan Commune residency. In the span of three months, they led daily balloon mapping workshops to reimagine the neighborhood of Huang Bian, Guangzhou China. Through doodling (act of drawing aimlessly), they hosted and collaborated with 8-14 year old Huang Bian residents and their families. The drawings and maps collaged together were exhibited as an interactive movable set, to take on an “alternative family portrait”. Alternative family portraits are taken in the opening to pedestrians and families participating in workshops. February 31, 2019.
[Documentation during the residency. Accumulative balloon-mapping and future doodles workshop decorating and encouraging public open doodling studio for curious pedestrians, December - February 2019.]
As adults heavily reliant on navigation technology of prime precision, we tend to walk around town with careful calculations. As the living environment changes dramatically ever day, the journeys we’ve just made would instantly become part of the history. Contrary to the GPS navigation installed in our phones, what’s right in front of us in reality disappears quick as a flash.
Project Schedule
Artist Studio + Workshop Space
11.1-12.8 Huangbian Kids Balloon Parade
online parade archive：https://baldballoon.netlify.com/
11.9 & 11.16, 16:00-18:00
Bald Balloon First Impression: DIY Balloon Mapping and Route Map Collage Workshop
11.19-12.8, 18:30-20:00
Durational Map Stitching Window Display (Rush hour ambient company)
12.1 & 12.2, 14:00-18:00 Flexible Walk-in
We Draw The Shape Of Future：Abstract Shapes Drawing Studio
2018.12.22-2019.3.30 Interactive Exhibition
- 12.22.15:00-17:00 Public Opening Event: Come Take A Family Portrait
*Notice: Free admission
Duo collaborative project at Guangdong Times Museum Banyan Commune as aoandaoband (with Sam Chao). Residency period: 11/1/2018-12/30/2018
Exhibition period: 12/30/2018-5/5/2019
aoandaoband (read as ao-and-ao-band) is the collaborative duo of Toni Tongyu Zhao (Zhuhai) and Samantha Yiyao Chao (Hong Kong)
aoandaoband started from frequent conversations via social media as the duo’s daily chats shifts into dream-like language they like to call “lyrics”, thus the band formed in order to document sleepy slippages, mixmatch ramble-ish ideas, and releasing then in poetic forms. aoandaoband creates DIY information from personal and imagined sources that disrupts the systematic, the algorithmic, the marketed popular and the top-down flow