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   [Date]: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:23:49 +0800
   [From]: Josette Balsa <jobalsa@usa.net>
     [To]: forum1@hkw.kbx.de
[Subject]: [Fwd: Zhang Peili 2000 Project Call for Collaboration]


To all members of the Forum I am forwarding this information about the
project of the Chinese artist Zhang Peili.

I will send a recap of the situation in Hong Kong and China later this
month.

Best wishes,

Josette


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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 09:24:59 +0800
To: "chinese-art-c" <chinese-art-c@lyris.chinese-art.com>
From: Robert Bernell <rbernell@chinese-art.com>
Subject: Zhang Peili 2000 Project Call for Collaboration


Collecting Global TV News at the Turn of Century

Call for participants in a global collaborative project devised by video
artist Zhang Peili.

As the century comes to a close, the night of 31 December will be the
most awaited time of the year world-wide.

It will be an unique and epoch-making event, full of explicit and
implicit meanings and a moment of both retrospection and anticipation.
Television media around the globe will use different voices and
perspectives to talk about the same issues, the end of the twentieth
century, and expectations for 2000.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES.

* To find collaborators for each participating country and to ask them
to videotape the main television news program broadcast at 7 p.m. in
the evening of 31 December.

(In most countries the evening news is shown at 7 p.m. Should this not
be the case, the collaborator should record the program according to
the standard evening news time of his/her country).

* Once recorded I will collect all the participating countries TV news
and display it in a video installation,with a channel for each TV set
and a TV set for each country

* The countries whose TV news are needed for the project should fall
within one or more of the following categories :

-countries with international or regional influence;
-countries possessing a distinctive character or representing a
different perspective than Western mainstream in terms of politics,
religious beliefs, style of life or cultural aspects;
-countries playing an important role in regional conflicts.

* The recording should begin a little before the program so to make
sure that the opening titles are included.

* The length should include the whole broadcast of the news, including
the weather forecast at the end, in case this should follow immediately
after.

(Therefore it is safe to assume it will need a 180 minute
videocassette.)

* Each program will be kept in its original language and the contents
will be translated into Chinese, English, Arabic and Russian in an
accompanying brochure to be distributed to the public.

RECORDING FORMAT

The accepted format for the video-tapes are : VHS, SVHS, Hi8, Mini
Digital Cassette, U-Matic or Betacam. The program can be taped directly
through any means offered by the public television network. The content
should be continuous and complete, and the sound and image should as
clear as possible.

PARTICIPATION IS STILL NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES:

ASIA: Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi
Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Philippines.

EUROPE: Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania, Poland, Ukraine,
Russia.

AFRICA: Angola, Nigeria , Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, Congo, Central
African Republic, Zambia, Libya, Algeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan,
Mozambique.

AMERICA: Mexico, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba,
Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay.

OCEANIA: Fiji.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The names of all participants will be printed in a special brochure
presented together with the piece, unless you prefer to remain
anonymous.

The documents generated in the process of obtaining each
video-cassette will also be exhibited with the work after receiving
permission from each collaborator.

EXPENSES

I will reimburse each collaborator for the expenses encountered for the
taping and shipping of the cassettes.

The success of the project relies upon our collaboration

Thanking you in advance for your support.

INTERESTED PARTIES CONTACT

Zhang Peili
October 1999,
Hangzhou,
China

Mail Address:Hangzhou Arts and Crafts School
Hangzhou 310016
People's Republic of China
Telephone/fax number: 0086-(0)571-6955193

E-mail:  Zpeili@163.net