N-APE STUDIO
The Infinite Party
The club has been called "a big abstraction machine that constantly produces pictures," but it has also been home to passionate outpourings of youth culture. As the place where art, video, and other creative pursuits manifest most frequently, clubs often prohibit any kind of photography in order to preserve their purity.
We are starting up this "abstraction machine". We are opening the doors to the club and presenting a party visualization system that will last for thirty days and nights. Real-time output from dozens of cameras offers participants the ability to choose and place the installations, lights, and music, without rules or boundaries. "The Infinite Party" breaks with the academic definitions of a photography exhibition, allowing the participants to feel as if they are being photographed while they are immersed in this hallucinatory machine.
Video recordings from secret parties in China today provided by Voguing Shanghai (video courtesy of Volta) and N-APE (video courtesy of Su Jingchao and GEATA) will be exhibited, creating an abstraction machine together with viewers. (Real-time video is being recorded in the exhibition, and by entering you have agreed to appear on camera. This video footage will selectively appear in the video works behind us).
By N-APE STUDIO
