Snail Bumu, 2015
Light Installation
To Create is To Exist . Snail Bumu is an artwork that is based on industrial Building management units (BMU) that can be seen crawling on top of the high-rises buildings, silently observing the city from above.
The WeAre Art Collective is a Shanghai-based federation of multi-disciplinary experimental artists and creative and media professionals from Asia, Europe, and the United States. Inter-looping through normally disjointed social and professional circles, the collective reunites to charge their power crystals, interlock, and take a critical view of artists and their interaction with subject matter.
Urban renewal is a professional process of creation. Innovation, association, and ideation is developed at breakneck speeds by profit-focused entities. Meanwhile, the artists who remove and display aspects of that process are credited with their presence. WeAre is a group of artists who self-examine and question the appropriation of their work and that of their peers. While artists are celebrated as creators, they are rather experts in selection. The process of creation is not self-aware. Development is often pursued for the sake of action and concept is often attributed for the sake of its own existence, with no real form to necessitate it. In this blind building, creativity expands in its most natural state. Particularly in topics relating to technological oddity it is programmers, engineers, and scientists who create. These artist merely found it quite odd, and made good use of their index finger.
Contemporary social issues brought forward by artists are often done so on pre-ordained terms or along already established lines of contention. The artwork, separated from the conversations within which it strikes cues, would arrive devoid of the meaning that makes it significant. With the use of multi-media installations and fixtures that embody the original creative product, still within the form of its first conception, WeAre sparks a discussion of the roles each party plays in the selection, creation, and appreciation of a piece of art.
Working primarily using light installation and LED in the past, the WeAre Art Collective