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L’escalator ou le voyage liquide, published in La Metropole des Infrastructures, Claude Prelorenzo & Dominique Rouillard (eds.), Editions Picard, Paris 2009... (READ MORE...)

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FACULTY FOR EYE OPENING, interview published in ARCHIPHOENIX – FACULTIES FOR ARCHITECTURE, boogazine for the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, NAi 2009… (READ MORE...)

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105 - 21|05|09
MAP VIDEO “No-stop island” featured at the Loop Festival in Barcelona, Spain at the Casa Asia, exhibition curated by Para/Site Art Space… (MORE INFO...)

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104 - 21|04|09
Ackbar Abbas invites us to participate to « Designing China », a workshop in Shanghai, August 9-22. 2009… (MORE INFO...)

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103 - 20|04|09
Good bye Jim… As we are preparing EVENTO, a project under the influence of J.G.Ballard, we are immensely sad today to ear about his death… (SEE HOMAGE...)

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102 - 06|04|09
MAP OFFICE’s workshop at Ecole Spéciale Architecture, ‘CAR / CASSE’ ended with 2 days of public performances. (SEE PHOTO...)

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101 - 27|03|09
THE CITY OF PRODUCTION is selected for the upcoming MIGRATING FORMS at Anthology Film Archives New York, April 15th-19th. (SEE PROGRAM...)

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100 - 27|03|09
MAP OFFICE visits Bordeaux to select various sites for  EVENTO, opening October 9th. SEE PHOTO. (SEE PHOTO...)

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099 - 17|03|09
NO LAB in RMB CITY is featured in People's Monthly — The official newsletter of RMB City. Issue No.01. (MORE INFO...)

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098 - 17|03|09
NO-STOP ISLAND is opened until May 1st in El Tanque at the Second Biennial of the Canary Island, Tenerife, Spain. (SEE PHOTO...)

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097 - 17|03|09
MAP OFFICE presents recent projects at Ecole Spéciale Architecture, ‘NO-STOP ISLANDS’, Paris – March 12th. (MORE INFO...)

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096 - 01|03|09
MAP OFFICE runs a workshop at Ecole Spéciale Architecture, ‘CAR / CASSE’, Atelier x3, Paris – March 7th to 25th. (SEE PROGRAM...)

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PUBLIC LANDSCAPE, Valerie’s Year 1 students exhibition at the School of Design is on view until March 15th, Hollywood Rd ART Quarters. (SEE PHOTO...)

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THE CITY OF PRODUCTION is selected for the upcoming Cinéma du Réel, Festival international de films documentaires CENTRE POMPIDOU, March 5th-17th. (SEE LINKS...)

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093 - 17|02|09
Map OFFICE curated by ParaSite/ArtSpace presents NO-STOP ISLAND at the Second Biennial of the Canary Island, Tenerife, Spain. (SEE DETAILS...)

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092 - 05|02|09
Map BOOK PUBLISHERS presents a new book Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig, J.Meejin Yoon (ed.). (LOOK INSIDE...)

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091 - 03|02|09
MAP OFFICE signs the exhibition design for Movies on the Mind at Hong Kong Film Archive. The show is opened until March 15th, 2009. (SEE PHOTO...)

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Still looking for an island, MAP OFFICE slows down in Boracay from 24.01.09 to 01.02.09. (SEE PHOTO...)

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089 - 23|01|09
NO LAB installation by Cao Fei and MAP office is opened in Lacoste at the Galerie Pfriem. (SEE PHOTO + PRESS RELEASE...)

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NO LAB on tour .1 - Spike Lee, Ray Nagin Barack Obama and Brad Pitt visited Lacoste last Saturday. (SEE PHOTO...)

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NO LAB installation by Cao Fei and MAP office will open Saturday 17th at the Galerie Pfriem du SCAD, Lacoste, France. (MORE INFO...)

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086 - 06|01|09
THE CITY OF PRODUCTION video from MAP OFFICE is selected for the upcoming ‘38th International Film Festival Rotterdam’ from January 21st to February 1st. (SEE LINKS...)

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085 - 06|01|09
HONG KONG IS OUR MUSEUM event #3 - Rooftop video party at Map Office next Wednesday, Jan. 07. from 7 pm till late. Hong Kong artist Lee Kit will show some hand-painted cloth and a selection of video works. (SEE DETAILS...)

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084 - 26|11|08
THE CITY OF PRODUCTION video from MAP OFFICE is selected for the upcoming "Rencontres Internationales" in Paris from November 28 to December 7, at the Centre Pompidou, The Jeu de Paume National Museum, The Paris-Villette. (SEE LINKS...)

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URBAN SHELTER, Valerie’s Year 1 students exhibition at the School of Design is on view until December at SD Gallery, HK Polytechnic University. (SEE PHOTO...)

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Flying from San Francisco on November 4th, we celebrate BARACK OBAMA’s victory. (SEE POSTER...)

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081 - 04|11|08
Watch the new video by Cao Fei for NO LAB. (SEE VIDEO...)

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080 - 04|11|08
Details of MAP OFFICE drawings around the cart for NO LAB. (SEE DRAWINGS...)

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079 - 04|11|08
NO LAB installation by Cao Fei and MAP OFFICE for PROSPECT .1 is open at the CAC, New Orleans. . (SEE PHOTOS...)

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078 - 24|10|08
MAP OFFICE @ GUANGJU BIENNALE. (SEE ANIMATION...)

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MAP OFFICE & CAO FEI in New Orleans, a project in collaboration with Cao Fei for Prospect 1, curated by Dan Cameron, November 2008. (SEE POSTER...)

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HONG KONG IS OUR MUSEUM event #2 - Rooftop video party at Map Office next Friday, Oct 10. from 8.30pm till late. Hong Kong artist Leung Chi Wo will show his brand-new video work Sign. (SEE DETAILS…)

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075 - 09|10|08
Laurent Gutierrez speaks at China Lab Event: Flash Urbanism: The Making of the Contemporary Chinese City - Monday, October 6, 2008, 6:30 pm -8:30 pm. (SEE DETAILS…)

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074 - 09|10|08
Laurent Gutierrez speaks at Plan 08 architecture festival BDA Cologne - Sunday, September 21, 2008, 7:00 pm. (SEE DETAILS…)

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073 - 18|09|08
Cities of Girl by Gutierrez + Portefaix is in the last issue of MONU_ Exotic Urbanism #9. (SEE CONTENT…)

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072 - 17|09|08
J’aime l’argent* (*I love money) is opened until September 27th, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong Art Centre. (SEE PHOTO…)

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071 - 16|09|08
Distribution of HARMONEY during the 11th Architecture Venice Biennale. (SEE PHOTO…)

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070 - 16|09|08
Underneath: Life with the Continuous Monument of China, 11th Architecture Biennale, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building Directed by Aaron Betsky with Emiliano Gandolfi, Padiglione Italia at the Giardini, Venice. (SEE PHOTO…)

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Launch of Urban Transformation and symposium at the Swiss Pavilion, Giardini del Castello, Venice. (READ MORE…)

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068 - 16|09|08
MAP OFFICE presents at SPEED DATE at the Dutch Pavilon, 11th Architecture Biennale, Venice. (READ MORE…)

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067 - 16|09|08
MAP OFFICE discusses at Beyond-Short stories on the post-contemporary, curated by Pedro Gadanho, 11th Architecture Biennale, Venice. (READ MORE…)

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066 - 16|09|08
The Final Battle, procession of 7 wagons for SPRING, 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea (SEE PHOTO…)

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065 - 16|09|08
Third Landscape in Ein Hawd, Israel was launched September 6th. (SEE PHOTO…)

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064 - 22|08|08
J'aime l'argent, exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong by MAP OFFICE, from the 29.08.2008. (READ MORE…)

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063 - 06|07|08
Looking for and island, MAP OFFICE slows down in Crete from 7.7.08 to 7.8.08. (RELAX MORE…)

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062 - 06|07|08
History will repeat itself at Hong Kong Film Archive, Goethe Institut and Videotage. (SEE PHOTO…)

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061 - 06|07|08
Third Landscape will start August 12 in Ein Hawd, Israel for the Platform Paradise project by Maurizio Bortolotti and F.A.S.T. (READ MORE…)

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060 - 06|07|08
Map BOOK PUBLISHERS presents a new book in the RedFlag Collection, Zheng Guogu, Jean Marc Decrop (ed.). (LOOK INSIDE…)

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059 - 06|06|08
Map Office designed 3 installations at Hong Kong Film Archive, Goethe Institut and Videotage for History will repeat itself. (READ MORE…)

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058 - 01|06|08
Map Office designed the installation at Vitamin Creative Space for Open Archive: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany + Chinese Video Art Archive. (SEE PHOTOS…)

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057 - 01|06|08
Photography and collage for ”NO LAB” catalogue, MAP OFFICE (Gutierrez + Portefaix) with CHINA TRACY (Cao Fei), a project for Prospect 1, curated by Dan Cameron. (SEE IMAGES…)

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056 - 26|05|08
MAP OFFICE will present ’The final battle’ in Spring, curated by Claire Tancons, the 7th Gwanju Biennale, September 5, 2008 - November 9, 2008. (READ MORE…)

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055 - 22|05|08
METROPOLIS LABORATORY 2008 [Copenhagen] MAP OFFICE is invited to present their research ‘Underneath’ – new urban fields under the structure of the structure of Guangzhou’s superhighway ring. (READ MORE…)

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In association with the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, MAP OFFICE presents ‘PIXEL’, Extra/Ordinary Cities Forum, Center of Contemporary Art & Politics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney June 20-24. (READ MORE…)

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053 - 20|05|08
Underneath: Life with the Continuous Monument of China, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky with the collaboration of Emiliano Gandolfi, at the Padiglione Italia, The 11th International Architecture Exhibition. (READ THE TEXT FOR THE CATALOGUE…)

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052 - 20|05|08
MAP OFFICE is invited to participate to The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia, preview September 11th, 12th and 13th. (READ MORE)

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051 - 20|05|08
New EXHIBITION DESIGN, Open Archive: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany + Chinese Video Art Archive, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, 23.5 - 21.6.2008. (READ MORE)

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050 - 16|05|08
HONG KONG IS OUR MUSEUM, Event 1 during Hong Kong Art Fair 08. (SEE CLIP)

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049 - 28|04|08
SOLO INGROSSO, TORINO GEODESIGN 08. Workshop during the Salone del Mobile, via Sarpi, Milan. (SEE PROJECT)

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048 - 25|04|08
DEATH WITH OBJECTS, Workshop and performance at NABA during the Salone del Mobile. (SEE PROJECT)

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047 - 23|04|08
MAP OFFICE presents Unstable Territories, Abitare Talks /1. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Wednesday 16.04.2008, 17.00 – 18.30 pm. (SEE INFO)

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046 - 22|04|08
Tales from Star Fairy, A Symposium on Hong Kong at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Osage SOHO, Thursday 24.04.2008, 7:30 – 9:00 pm. (SEE INFO)

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045 - 09|04|08
HARMONEY,ONE, FIVE, TWENTY, HUNDRED, FIVE HUNDRED new banknotes promote new vision of what could be a positive capitalism in China. (SEE BANKNOTES)

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044 - 04|04|08
MAP OFFICE and SCHOOL OF DESIGN [Hong Kong Polytechnic University] will participate at NABASUTRA – FURIOSALONE 2008 – CITY OF DESIRE. (READ MORE)

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043 - 28|03|08
New Orleans, a trip to prepare a project in collaboration with Cao Fei for Prospect 1, curated by Dan Cameron, November 2008. (SEE PHOTO)

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042 - 17|03|08
The Parrot’s Tale: Venice in Kong Kong, Tales from Venice, curated by Norman Ford, Osage, Hong Kong. (SEE PHOTO)

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041 - 12|03|08
Unreal Estates of China in, Post-it city, curated by Martí Peran, Filippo Poli, Giovanni La Varra, CCCB, Barcelona. (READ MORE)

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040 - 10|03|08
The Parrot’s Tale: Venice in Hong Kong in, Tales from Venice, curated by Norman Ford, Osage, Hong Kong. (READ MORE)

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039 - 29|02|08
We Are Just Locals. A Discussion with Map Office, by Maurizio Bortolotti, in /seconds - the online journal of contemporary art and its research, issue 7: sci-fi, utopia, roadside picnic... (READ MORE)

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038 - 29|02|08
Homes For China/Homes for America, Workshop with students from Rice University School of Architecture on Multi-Scalar Housing Developments in Hong Kong. (READ MORE)

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037 - 20|02|08
NEW ESSAY, Cities of Girl, text Gutierrez + Portefaix, photo Benoit Dupuis, Urban China – Parallel Universe, 2008. (READ MORE)

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036 - 27|01|08
d.movies interview is now online. (READ MORE)

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035 - 15|01|08
‘Fertilizing HK’, Installation to celebrate coming Chinese New Year, 15th January 2008. (READ MORE)

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034 - 14|01|08
When US dollar is fading out, let's celebrate the new HAR money. A Project by MAP office. (READ MORE)

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033 - 11|01|08
‘Re-mapping HK", Installation for the 1st HK/SZ architecture biennale, 9th January 2007. (READ MORE)

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032 - 03|01|08
‘Unstable Territories’, Lecture, Chongqing, 29th December 2007. (READ MORE)

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031 - 03|01|08
‘Unreal Estates of China’, an installation for Urban_New Spectacle, Chongqing, December 2007. (READ MORE)

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030 - 12|12|07
‘Unreal Estates of China’, book. Download it! (READ MORE)

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029 - 12|12|07
‘Unreal Estates of China’, at the Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, until March 2008. (READ MORE)

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028 - 20|11|07
‘UNREAL ESTATE OF CHINA”, a new installation for Post-it City and Other Forms of Temporality, Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture (CCCB), March/April 2008. (READ MORE)

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027 - 20|11|07
‘Re-mapping HK’

An installation for the forthcoming Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, January 2007. (READ MORE)

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026 - 13|11|07
‘Unreal Estates of China’, book cover, catalogue and banner for the forthcoming Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, December 2007. (READ MORE)

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025 - 13|11|07
Zheng Guogu in his Empire

Photography and video documentation for MAP BOOK new monograph on Chinese artist Zheng Guogu. (READ MORE)

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024 - 23|10|07
‘Unreal Estates of China’, an installation and new MAP book will be launch at the forthcoming Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, December 2007 . (READ MORE)

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023 - 23|10|07
Photography and video documentation for MAP BOOK new monograph on Chinese artist Zheng Guogu. (READ MORE)

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022 - 23|10|07
“Turtle and rabbit” are presented and auctionned at ArtMart 2007, the Annual Fundraising Event for Para/Site. (READ MORE)

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021 - 11|10|07
Extended Territory
2007

Visit EXTENDED TERRITORY, an installation by MAP OFFICE  [Gutierrez + Portefaix], presented by Goethe-Institut Hong Kong. (READ MORE)

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Extended Territory
2007

As part of Extended Territory, MAP solo show at the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, a limited edition of 8 stickers will be given during the opening - 11/10/2007. (READ MORE)

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Processes in Dialogue
2007
The projections of Clock master” and “Rolling Mills” by Ali Omer Kazma; “Alco Story” and “Sun Hing Story” by Map Office perfectly communicated with the museum’s industrial structure and represented the end point of Art Experience.” (READ MORE)

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Extended Territory
2007
Installation: Drawings, animated drawings, text
MAP OFFICE [Gutierrez + Portefaix]
Venue: Goethe Institute, Art Centre, Hong Kong
Opening: 11th October 2007

For ‘Extended Territory’, MAP office will present the first time in Hong Kong a visual record of PIXEL’s exploration in the Pearl River Delta region. (READ MORE)

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LOCAL MODERNITY / GLOBAL EXPECTATIONS
Art Experience 2007

An initiative of DOMUS Academy
Workshop at Santrai Istanbul
Curator: Maurizio Bortolotti
Artist: Omer Ali Kazma and MAP Office. (READ MORE)

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City of Production : a Fabulous Opportunity to Experiment with Posive Capitalism
MAP OFFICE [Gutierrez + Portefaix]
Installation : text, neon, island sofa, vynil, table, DVD, plasma screen, document (READ MORE)

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REVERSING HORIZONS CATALOGUE IS READY!
EDITORS : Chang Tsong-zung, Gao Shiming
PUBLISHER: Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 978-7-80703-680-7 - 2007

Text on MAP by Norman ford
Collateral Commemoration or 1 Square Meter = Decennial

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INFORMAL TERRITORIES - FAIRYTALE
Lunch lecture - 21 June 2007
1 pm documenta-Halle (READ MORE)

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MOVING PERSONAL ISLAND FROM HONG KONG TO CHINA
Exhibition: Reversing Horizons: Hong Kong Art Since 1997
Venue: Shanghai MOCA, People’s Park, Shanghai
Curators : Chang Tsong-zung, Gao Shiming
Date: 6th July – September 2007 (READ MORE)

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BUILDING ASIA BRICK BY BRICK
ArtAsiaPacific magazine and People's Architecture Foundation proudly announce their collaboration on the two year-long traveling exhibition and workshop Building Asia Brick by Brick...

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June 9th, 2007, China Tracy Pavillon,
Virgin Garden, Arsenale, Venise
Discussion with Cao Fei
Video, 40mn.

WHAT IS CHINA TRACY LOOKING FOR?... (READ MORE)

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Cities of production: a fantastic opportunity to experiment with positive capitalism.
Presented at the 10th Istanbul Biennale,
Curated by Hou Hanru, September 07.

Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary - Optimism in the age of global war... (READ MORE)

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LEGO CITY: Plan-it-Yourself!
“LEGO CITY: Plan-it-Yourself !” is an integrated set of planning principles that respond to specific processes of urbanization in China... (READ MORE)

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MAP OFFICE FOR AI WEIWEI, FAIRYTALE, DOCUMENTA 12
More info: www.documenta12.de (READ MORE)

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MAP OFFICE IS IN VENICE
Join us in the coutyard of Hong Kong pavillon from June 4th to 10th. Please note the opening: June 8th, 12:00. (READ MORE)

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Breeding Dust, B.A.S.E., Beijing
Conference and workshop at B.A.S.E., Beijing architectural Studio Enterprise... (READ MORE)

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Star Fairy, 52nd Venice Biennale,
curated by Norman Ford

STAR FAIRY, a playful, critical and engaging project initiated by Norman Ford, will feature the works of three experienced international artists... (READ MORE)

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Art Asia Pacific May/June 2007
MAP office [Gutierrez + Portefaix] features... (READ MORE)

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The parrot’s tale
To represent Hong Kong? It seemed logical to go back to its origins, to set up the mise-en-scène - a granite island covered with a beautiful, unspoiled jungle... (READ MORE)

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Making of HK Island, Lau Fau Shan, Hong Kong
The Making of HK Island is a scale 1:3 model of a larger installation to to built for the 52.International Venice Art Biennale...

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World Factory, San Francisco Art Institute,
curated by Hou Hanru

Tackling global concerns about immigration, labor rights, mass production, economic inequality and environmental devastation is a tall order... (READ MORE)

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