See What's Been Stirring At WOK

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl1YtBJEo9UeTCqNM0-jL2bV5T-f0o6shYr-m5G19_roUe01hLOtpmlRSFq0-ruLl6AGilJnCPN0_g48A12jrO6lbfi1HoZZMUerm_ylGuBlQhijBEHNFqB4hIKs246BVd_jqtQ3or32_b/s1600-h/Picture+7.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124687378420044370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl1YtBJEo9UeTCqNM0-jL2bV5T-f0o6shYr-m5G19_roUe01hLOtpmlRSFq0-ruLl6AGilJnCPN0_g48A12jrO6lbfi1HoZZMUerm_ylGuBlQhijBEHNFqB4hIKs246BVd_jqtQ3or32_b/s400/Picture+7.png" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><a href="http://www.wokmedia.com/?p=10" rel="bookmark" title="Click to read: "Made In China""><br /></a> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mic02.jpg" style="width: 396px; height: 264px;" /></p> <p>New versions of WOKmedia's ‘Made in China’ series of furniture.<br /></p><p>The work, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer, is a result of their extended stay in China as part of a collaboration with <a href="http://www.contrastsgallery.com/">Contrasts Gallery</a> of Shanghai.</p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mic03.jpg" style="width: 356px; height: 533px;" /></p> <p>This series of work debuted at <a href="http://www.designmiami.com/">Design Miami</a> last December.</p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mic04.jpg" style="width: 357px; height: 534px;" /></p> <p>They describe it as <i> "Seemingly innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Specifically invading antique Chinese furniture, starting to threaten their traditional past."</i></p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mic05.jpg" style="width: 396px; height: 264px;" /></p> <p>and as <i> "Revealing a surreal and terrifying landscape of derailed trains, drowning babies, crashing planes and wild dinosaurs."</i> </p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mic06.jpg" style="width: 395px; height: 591px;" /></p>The most recent additions to the above installation are the following :<br /><p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mc_sizzle.jpg" style="width: 392px; height: 261px;" /></p> <p>Limited edition series of WOKmedia's <a href="http://www.wokmedia.com/?p=10">‘Made in China’</a> collection.<br />Each piece is unique, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer.</p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mc_grr.jpg" style="width: 393px; height: 262px;" /><br />above: ‘GRR’</p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mc_bowwow.jpg" style="width: 392px; height: 261px;" /><br />above: ‘BOW-WOW’</p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mc_boohoo.jpg" style="width: 395px; height: 263px;" /><br />Above: ‘BOO-HOO’</p> <p><img src="http://www.wokmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mc_clank.jpg" style="width: 393px; height: 262px;" /><br />Above: ‘CLANK’</p><p><b>Who is WOKmedia?</b><br /></p>Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner established WOKmedia in 2004.<br />They are based in London with a production studio in Shanghai.<br /><br />Wokmedia’s work is primarily concerned with the emotional dimension, an archetypal memory or a physical sensation. Often they survey a state of in between where chaos is showing structure and confusion is beginning to make sense. Where out of devastation and destruction emerges a new world. A world embedded in their childhood memories when emotions were not expected to be filtered, when make-believe was not equated with lunacy.<br /><br />Julie Mathias<br /><a href="mailto:julie@wokmedia.com"><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 0);">julie@wokmedia.com</span></a><br /><br />Wolfgang Kaeppner<br /><a href="mailto:wok@wokmedia.com"><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 0);">wok@wokmedia.com</span></a><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 0);"><br /><br />London</span></strong> Studio<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>WOKmedia<br />2 Leswin Place, Unit HQ<br />London N16 7NJ<br /><br /><p style="margin-top: -9px;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 0);">Shanghai</span></strong> Production<br />WOKmedia<br />Rujin Road 500 (South)<br />Shanghai</p> <!--show the category, edit link, comments--><!-- <div class="underposts"> Posted in <a href="http://www.wokmedia.com/?cat=1" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a> | </div> --><!-- end of id content--><script> //alert(location.search); if(location.search=="?page_id=7"){ document.getElementById("pageA").style.display=""; }else{ document.getElementById("pageB").style.display=""; } </script> <!--index.php end--><!--include footer--><!--footer.php--> <!-- Do not delete the credits, this theme is released for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL) requiring that the credits will stay intact. 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