20 days
"20 Days" project is a series of art performances that took place in Bretagne, France, during which the Chinese artist Mu Yuming met and interacted with the local community. The process of creating the project was documented and displayed in a local cultural center. Lucille Enel facilitated the production of the project from the sourcing and communication to the exhibition setup.
3 months/ 2005
Mission:
Mu Yuming, an artist from Yunnan province (South-Western China), lives and works in Lijiang. Since 2003, the artist has been working on the "20 Days" project. After Kunming, Oslo, and Amsterdam, he went to Bretagne (North-Western France) to do a new edition of the project.
The "20 Days" project in France took place in Bretagne, where the artist went to meet the local farmers, craftsmen, and artists as well as the people he met throughout the project. The project's main goal was to collaborate and interact with the local community. A series of multimedia and interactive performances took place each of the 20 days of the project. Then an exhibition in a local cultural center displayed the creation's process. Lucille Enel worked as project manager, in charge of the production and the post-production of the project, including seeking out the exhibition venue and local partners, as well as communication, mediation, translation and fundraising. Many local media sources reported on the project and one of the most popular French national newspapers, Liberation, published a full-page article about Mu Yuming's 20 Days project and its impact on the local community.
3 months/ 2005
Mission:
- Consulting on the feasibility of the project
- Sourcing
- Partnership seeking
- Fundraising
- Site production
- Mediation
- Exhibition set-up
- Translation
- Communication
Mu Yuming, an artist from Yunnan province (South-Western China), lives and works in Lijiang. Since 2003, the artist has been working on the "20 Days" project. After Kunming, Oslo, and Amsterdam, he went to Bretagne (North-Western France) to do a new edition of the project.
The "20 Days" project in France took place in Bretagne, where the artist went to meet the local farmers, craftsmen, and artists as well as the people he met throughout the project. The project's main goal was to collaborate and interact with the local community. A series of multimedia and interactive performances took place each of the 20 days of the project. Then an exhibition in a local cultural center displayed the creation's process. Lucille Enel worked as project manager, in charge of the production and the post-production of the project, including seeking out the exhibition venue and local partners, as well as communication, mediation, translation and fundraising. Many local media sources reported on the project and one of the most popular French national newspapers, Liberation, published a full-page article about Mu Yuming's 20 Days project and its impact on the local community.
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20 Days project background
There are several reasons that Mu Yuming is working on this project which are mainly connected to the role of today's contemporary artist and the present view of art. What fascinates him is how the art community interacts (or sometimes fails to engage) with society; particularly the lack of communication and incomprehension between population and expression. Art is often inspired from everyday life and co-exists within a dynamic of giving and taking. Art should convey more about the relationship of give and take, a re-energizing model of returning to the community in which it was inspired. The question is whether contemporary artists can actually convey their thoughts and directions successfully to the world around them. Can they bridge the gap and communicate their ideas? This project examines these problems and questions. However an artist can take an active role to do more than expose these inquiries. He or she can actually put transformation processes into action. Mu Yuming use his vocation as an artist to issue real change, but it is a vulnerable and dangerous undertaking to tackle alone. An art-martyr of sorts, he feels a responsibility to create physically and emotionally challenging situations, where he can move against the grain, swim upstream, and command attention through his collaborations.
