Man-Made Animals:
Self in the Other
an online Pavilion of the 6th Wrong Biennale
Since cave paintings, the earliest documentations of art by humans, animals have never left human's
artworks. Whether they are depicted in pigments from mineral stones or binary data, the renderings of
the animals are shaped by the latest technologies by humans and the environments we are in. In a
phenomenological sense, animals for humans are never animals per se; they are partially man-made, as an
externalized version of psychological and philosophical “self”, or as “the other,” something alien and
unfathomable, or, most likely, both.
With these thoughts in mind, SXSY Collective presents a series of artworks featuring animal-related works
of various media – from painting to sculpture to video to participatory and interactive work by a group
of local and international artists – all inside a 3D video game directly accessible in a browser. The
virtual gallery space for the exhibition is a replica of the SXSY Office on the 46th floor of a
skyscraper in downtown Chengdu, a metropolitan in Southwest China with a population of 20 million
people. Confined in an awkwardly urban and limited space in a supposedly infinite virtual space, the
viewers are confronted with animal works that press them to think about the relationships between the
viewers, the artists, the animals, and the space, discovering "self" in various types of "other."
Artists
The following artists are exhibiting their work in this exhibition:
- Antone Konst (b. 1987, New Haven, USA)
- Elpida Hadezi-Vasileva (b. 1971, Kavadarci,
Macedonia)
- Joe Pearson (b. 1990, London, UK)
- RESET (b. 1996, Zhengzhou, China)
- Sheng Zhang (b. 1980, Kaifeng, China)
- SXSY Collective (b. 2019, Chengdu, China)
- Weikang Gong (b. 1992, Mianyang, China)
- Wenyun Xiong (b. 1955, Chongqing, China)
- Yalin Zhao (Chengdu, China)
- Yinan Song (b. 1991, Xinxiang, China)
Creators
See the full list of creator for this project by clickong on the "Creators" button in the bottom left
menu.
Technologies
This project is built with Babylon.js for programming and Blender for 3D modeling & animation.
Special Thanks
We receive advice and help from the following organizations & individuals:
- The 6th Wrong Biennale
- Meng Tian, Unique Art Museum, Chengdu, China
- Kate Gu, M+ Art Museum, Hong Kong, China
- Jody Huang, Almost Four Artspace, Chengdu, China
SXSY Collective
The Man-Made Animals: Self in the Other exhibition is curated and produced by SXSY Collective as an
online pavilion for the 6th Wrong Biennale.
SXSY Collective is an art collective under SXSY Works, an art, design & technology
studio, based in Chengdu, China.
Credits
SXSY Collective curates and produces this exhibition.
- Project Lead: Yinan Song
- Curation: Yinan Song
- Visual Design: Yinan Song, Shaohua Gong
- 3D Modeling: Mengxin Huang, Yinan Song, Baochang Lu, Tingyun Yin, Zhihan Zhang, Heng Wu
- Programming: Siyuan Peng, Yinan Song, Yujia Liu, Xiulin Wang, Shixu Liu
- Music: Dmitrii Kolesnikov
- Text: Yinan Song
- Translation: Shaohua Gong
Artists
The following artists are exhibiting their work in this exhibition:
- Antone Konst (b. 1987, New Haven, USA)
- Elpida Hadezi-Vasileva (b. 1971, Kavadarci,
Macedonia)
- Joe Pearson (b. 1990, London, UK)
- RESET (b. 1996, Zhengzhou, China)
- Sheng Zhang (b. 1980, Kaifeng, China)
- SXSY Collective (b. 2019, Chengdu, China)
- Weikang Gong (b. 1992, Mianyang, China)
- Wenyun Xiong (b. 1955, Chongqing, China)
- Yalin Zhao (Chengdu, China)
- Yinan Song (b. 1991, Xinxiang, China)
