the moon is interesting because it's a
yet not habitable space so it's a
fantastic place to put your dreams I
think that within our dreams and our
ability to dream
we also carry our sense of criticism I
think it's a fantastic so space in our
minds I think it's beautiful I think the
you know most of technology doesn't
really offer this kind of space for
people
every year we have research projects
presented by artists the first was
Oliver Lewis and a few years ago and
this year we were discussing within who
could it be
of course we thought about Iowa
the first thing was I connecting by web
because this is not allowed to leave
Beijing as we know my condition I cannot
travel as soon as you don't have my
passport today so the only way we can
collaborate is through Skype or
telephone my cello calls me up this one
day and he wanted to know if I was
interested in working and collaborating
with them to really come up with the
solution for this impossible mission
obviously there's a huge time difference
between New York China and Berlin so it
mainly happened through a couple of ways
and from phone calls to emails to even
Ola for recording a video on his iPhone
and sending it to us as a response to
collaborate is always about sharing an
idea
interestingly we could still share the
idea and also our knowledge our dreams
they travel anyway I work with
recreating natural phenomena and in that
idea I have different questions you know
critical questions poetic questions you
could say that I will works with
recreating cultural phenomena they have
a kind of thing in common and that is
questioning reality who produces reality
what is reality is reality relative
Oliver and I were we came out with an
idea to do a digital project together a
work of art online it's a website where
people can log in and create a mark
which is a very simple drawing black and
white and they can post it and it
appears on a sphere that is shared among
all the visitors to the site then you
can browse around and pan and zoom in
and zoom out and we'll examine the marks
and clicking mark and see who made that
mark when they made it you can also tag
your marks with different tags like air
and war and passion we were immediately
attracted to drawing because they call
concept of an endless canvas and a
shared canvas is something special and
unique
the moon is about nurturing celebrating
facilitating and sharing the marks that
are being suppressed excluded but just
not really taking care of when we were
at Oliver studio before spoke to our way
away and asked him what do you think a
mark should be and my way we said to be
the last words of a dying man like the
most significant thing you could
possibly say when they launch the moon
first a few hours
Chinese people become very excited under
than immediately we seen palav ours has
been blocked by trans authority so you
see how my individual mark or individual
mind can be see us so powerful or
threatened to society
the way that we're being treated by
society in general I think it's very
important to insist on well even a tiny
tiny mark is fantastic if we could
create a platform where we can celebrate
things that are typically marginalized a
personal remark a poem expressing things
that are of little values because it's
not quantifiable just like children
leave traces on the beach on the sand or
on the wall anybody can make some
drawing some marks on it does matter of
which language which cultural background
you have we all can make some marks and
I think we should not hesitate to
suggest that even in a tiny tiny mark
there is a mark that matters