*Images courtesy of KITCHEN projects, 2011
I’ve had news just in that the Britt and Jon of the Trans-Siberian Art Centre has succesfully made it all the way from Moscow to Beijing. The project involved the team taking over one of the carriages on the trans-siberian train and turning it into a nomadic art space with a somewhat captive audience.
You can see from the pictures above how the carriage was decorated with contribution from an array of different artists, including your favourite purple spiky fine artist. If you look carefully you can see my contribution in the photographs above.
As Jon and Britt confess the the T-SAC started ‘as an idea that didn’t have much more genesis than a “Why not?” being laid on the pub table one night’. By all accounts the project turned out to be a roaring success.
In addition to the exhibition of postcard sized artworks, travellers were also treated to a number of performances pieces both in the carriage and on the station platforms along the way including ‘Slap’ by Anastasia Klose which sounds like it was interesting accomplpishment given the space restrictions.
You should definitely head on over to the T-SAC blog and read the teams brief account of their adventures: http://trans-siberianartscentre.blogspot.com.
