Let's See What Happens...Zeng Huanguang

Let's See What Happens...Zeng Huanguang 

Huanguang lives and works in Xiamen. A central theme of his practice is the rapid urbanisation of China and in earlier works he has collected antiques and ruins turning them into public interventions. He also works collaborative with poets, writers and China's displaced communities in socially engaged work. For this project he spent time at Occupy in London becoming increasingly fascinated by its community. In the exhibition he has recreated this site of peaceful protest as an art installation including tents graffiti, flyers, asking serious questions about the relationship between art, activism and their power to change society.

This is from the Glynn Vivian Information leaflet.

These are the photos that I took of the exhibition...

I really loved this, "We don't need money, we need change" while using change to pull attention to the words. I guess that symbolises the best way to get attention to something is to put money into it; advertising, buildings, movies. Which is what the exhibition is showing, that its problem that is how things work.

 These photos show the full length of the exhibition room that was full of tents and posters. I really liked
the fact that when you walked in and the first things that you saw were tents, graffiti, banners as posters as if you were back outside. I thought of everything being set back up in this room as it being kept as storage.
Everything that the protest stood for has not been forgotten it has just been stored away. To come out later at another point.

Reinforcing the fact that this was a peaceful protest?
 I'm unsure if at the actual protest had chalk drawings on the ground but I feel that if there was, doing something
 that could potentially be seen as a graffiti is not the best way to go about seeming peaceful. I don' know if chalk drawings would count as graffiti but if so, doing something illegal while trying
to appear peaceful I think is kinda silly and not really the best way to go about it. 

This is something that was on all of the tents. It is a notice to remove the tents that were being used during the protest. 

The original image below the graffiti is quiet a famous image that has been used a lot to encourage
people and it is seen as a very inspirational symbol for strength. The fact that it has been vandalised I didn't really
understand as that is kinda going against what the image is about, its covering up and going against what
it stands for when it could of been used to encourage people to be strong and encourage change.