Introduction

When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.

William S. Burroughs

Vision Forum presents The Invisible Generation: a series of events in September and October 2009 that are inspired by a text by William S. Burroughs with the same title. The project is primarily be made up of unannounced performance-based interventions in the public space in Beijing, Melbourne, Shenzhen and Kiev. The Invisible Generation is realized in collaboration with VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Satellite in Melbourne, CPU 798, and Home Shop in Beijing, OCAT in Shenzhen and the Les Kurbas Center in Kiev. The project brings together high profile artists from a large array of different countries and cultural backgrounds and with roots in Europe and China as well as in Africa and South America.

Cities and dates

Melbourne
10-09-09 - 10-10-09

http://tig-melbourne.blogspot.com/

Bejing and Shenzhen
Starting from October and November 2009
http://tig-china.blogspot.com/

Kiev
March 2010
http://tig-kiev.blogspot.com/

Info & Credits

The Invisible Generation is a project by William S. Burroughs filtered through time and Daniele Balit and Per Hüttner.

Projects by: Yan Jun / Mark Geffriaud / Juan Pedro Fabra, Michele Masucci and Loulou Cherinet / Natasha Rosling / Per Hüttner / Michael Yuen / John Phillips and Matt Hope / Hu Xiangqian / Nadège Maïon / Jean-François Robardet / Yang ZhiFei.

Organized by: Vision Forum in collaboration with VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Satellite in Melbourne, Les Kurbas Centre in Kiev, Home Shop and CPU 798 in Beijing and OCAT in Shenzhen.


Main sponsor: Linköpings universitet

Supporting institutions: French Embassy in Australia, French Embassy in Kiev, The Embassy of Sweden in Peking, The Embassy of Sweden in Kiev, the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, The Consulate of Sweden in Guangzhou, Längmanska Kulturfonden in Stockholm and Linköpings Univesitet in Norrköping. A special thank you to FRAC Île-de-France.