OCAT Shanghai 10th Anniversary Special Project is presented at the 9th West Bund Art & Design Fair from November 10th to 13th, 2022, inviting artists who have collaborated in solo/dual exhibitions in the institution between 2012 and 2022, so as to construct an image monument of the OCAT practices along the years.

In this project, Antoni Muntadas and Kelvin Kyung Kun Park presented respectively video works “This is not an Advertisement” and “Stairway to Heaven“, along with Zhu Changquan’s “Transplant” and “Decompress with breath“, etc.

Live video performance, based on the popular K-soap opera “Stairway to Heaven“, 2003, reveal structures of emotions for romance. Charcters in a double love trianlge make emotional decisions based on relational situations rather than having their own subjective drive, or will. A non subjective subjectivity is the archetype of emotional structures of Asian soap operas.

(Courtesy OCAT Shanghai)