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Lien-Cheng Wang

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live and works in Taiwan

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Thodoris Trampas
lives and works in Athens, Greece

P. Paul and O. Avisar

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live and work in Vienna and Tel Aviv

Stanley Shoemaker

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lives and works in Mexico

Lillian Abel

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lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

Mark Franz
Lien-Cheng Wang

Suzanne Smith

Petra Paul & Ophira Avisar

Taiwan

United Kingdom

Austria / Israel

Taiwan, is well-known as
consumer electronic
industry, where
numerous electronic
products are produced
and discarded, older
models are replaced by
newer models. I
collected hundreds of
scraped and old CD-ROM
drives which were
originally connected with
computers. They are
actually functional and
usable. But people throw
them out because a
newer generation model
is published in the
market. I used a different
method with nutrients
from the information on
the internet, brought CDROM drives back to live.
The Internet, the blood
of my work, is itself a
stream f rom which data,
consisting of 0’sand 1’s,
are put in(uploaded) and
taken out (downloaded;
accessed).

Suzanne Smith is fascinated with the politics of
the everyday; her practice
reflects the negotiation of
an environment saturated
with social norms and
conventions. In her eyes,
everything is odd and
everything is interesting.
Smith is intrigued by the
point midway between
appalling and delightful. It
is the tension in the
mundanity that really gets
her going.Smith often
works with text, found
objects, photography, film
and found image. A seam
of appropriation, collage
and humour runs
throughout, as she feels
for the edges of
conventions where
negotiation and collusion
take place. Smith
accumulates, plays and
controls - imposing a
preferred order on her
subject and pinning it
down in its new position it
long enough to take a
better look.

We are both feminist artists
and do a lot of work against
racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, misogyny. We
have to prohibit
discrimination based on
any grounds, including sex,
gender, color, religion,
ethnic, disabitity, age,
social origin, language or
belief. Education is an
important part for (or to
learn) acceptance and
tolerance as well as
awarenss-rising. We are for
peace, for respect, for
equality, for solidarity...
and we use this words in
different ways, in film as
well as in our performance.
Our work is also asking
questions about the male
dominated public space. It
is also about sustainability.
When we use the beach of
Tel Aviv as a drawing
ground, we do it being
aware to the constant
erasing of the waves.

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livesand works in Athens, Ohio, USA

Leonid Dutov

132

lives and works in Moskow, Russia

Marta Stysiak

154

lives and works in Warsaw, Poland

Suzanne Smith

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lives and works in Manchester, United Kingdom
On the cover Unbreakable City 2014, Mixed media installation,
by Lien-Cheng Wang

Special thanks to Haylee Lenkey, Martin Gantman , Krzysztof
Kaczmar, Joshua White, Nicolas Vionnet, Genevieve Favre
Petroff, Sandra Hunter, MyLoan Dinh, John Moran, Marya
Vyrra, Gemma Pepper, Michael Nelson, Hannah Hiaseen,
Scarlett Bowman, Yelena York Tonoyan, Haylee Lenkey, Martin
Gantman , Krzysztof Kaczmar and Robyn Ellenbogen.

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