City One Minutes
Twenty-four hours in a Chinese city captured in videos of one minute.
City One Minutes is a series of portraits of cities around world. From May till June 2009, Dutch artists together with art students of different Chinese academies in universities will make one minute city portraits of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Taipei. A total of sixty city portraits will be included in the City One Minutes exhibition which is part of the World Expo Shanghai 2010 in Shanghai.
Video portraits of Chinese cities
Buildings, public squares, cars, bikes, people, money, poverty, order chaos. A city is an organism, it never sleeps – no two hours are every the same. To make a portrait of a city, capturing the city’s particularities – its unique traits – reflected through the individual eye of the video maker. For the project, different artists are asked to make a one-minute video of a different hour of the day. Together, these 24 visions form a collective artwork about a city.
The exhibition is part of the World Expo Shanghai 2010 and will be shown in the City Culture Pavilion of Shanghai. At the same time a selection of city portraits will be shown as a split screen film in those Chinese cities where the workshops took place. The Chinese city portraits are also part of www.cityoneminutes.org, where you can browse through more than 100 cities by either time or location. City One Minutes is a co-production of The One Minutes foundation and Holland Doc 24 / VPRO in collaboration with the East China Normal University.
