STRIKE! mixes boxing matches and contemporary chamber music, with most of the performances taking place in boxing rings. In combining such seemingly disparate genres, the crowd at STRIKE! is unusually diverse. STRIKE! derives much of its fundamental vitality from everyone getting to learn a little about the each other’s “world.” From this odd coupling, STRIKE! creates a space where music has a chance to be seen in the light of explosive engagement—both physical and interpersonal, while boxing is encountered in the light of chamber music.

China is undergoing one of the most dramatic transitions in the history of the world. The acceleration of change echoes throughout our society and beyond our borders. Inevitably the changes result in both stimulation and trauma. The past is disappearing and the present is in constant flux. China is becoming more and more dynamic as Western concepts, ideas, and morals permeate the country. The result is a kind of bipolar culture.

Comprised of works created in different media, this exhibition introduces a new fictional model called “Abissology,” or the science that studies the abyss, which is the result of the artistic practice of the artists. This model is reflected in the fiction they create, which is concerned with the literary composition of a specific science of the bodies, designed accordingly to the phenomenological/ontological condition of the visible minimum, what is almost unseen, and what has almost no existence to a beholder.

Thousands of newspaper cuttings, photos, and quotations including the word “everything” hang on the wall around a black pulsating screen. The artist has been tracing the existance of “everything” in our culture for almost two years. This installation is constructed by oppositions—symbols and symptoms, pathos and irony, overflow and the unnoticeable, schematic and idiomatic, and so on. The game of oppositions suggests that our everything is in fact based on the economy of our attention and care.

Biology is no different from photography, video, or computers, in that it can be used as an art medium. The use of biology as an art medium is not a recent phenomenon. It is likely that ever since early humans have started domestication, animals and plants have been selected, and consequently modified, based on aesthetic values. Modern biology made possible the modification of life in an extremely controlled way, but also offered access to many other techniques: from protein structure analysis to direct visualization of neurons in the living brain. This technology offers new visual opportunities for artists willing to cross the borders between what have been different disciplines.