PICNIC is a week of place-specific collaboration project open for all fields of art (visual, music, performance and others) and providing an opportunity for experimental collaborative work development outside of usual field and conventional working space.  The programme of PICNIC is developing around the process, rather than accomplished work – it’s a literal Picnic: an excursion where the spot in the landscape or urbanscape is chosen to contemplate surroundings,  to share the meal and conversation; and at the same time it’s a creative ritual of sharing ideas and the ways of interaction with the place.

24Hours Non-Stop Action on the Site has become an important part of each PICNIC as a proposed way of the interaction with the place through continuous performance / work production. 24 hours are creating the circle of the changes in the place conditions and in our perception of the place.
Following the light changes, changes in perception and physical condition, and ceaseless action (similar to shamanic ritual) to achieve a condition when performance / work production is becoming the place, against as imitation of the place.
Continuous action is allowing to develop the condition when performance / work production will be flowing by the rules of the place and the selected media (paint, voice, dance, film and est.), or  will select the media.

PICNIC has started in 2009 as collaboration between Land Art Papa Westary, Orkney based art project, and Malschule Wladimir Prib, an art school based in Berlin. Since than PICNIC hold place at derelict railway station in Berlin, uninhabited island and sea shore in Orkney.

This year PICNIC in Hong Kong is a collaboration between art projects in Orkney and Berlin and Hong Kong based C&G Artpartment.

This year Theme of PICNIC is ZONE and we’d like to look at established zones and prescribed to them functions or norms of behaviour, and to define, or create new ones. Today everything is divided, or organised into zones with prescribed characteristics and qualities.
We’d like to look at in-between territories, unnameable qualities and uncertain states creating new types of zones, exploring various ways of interaction with an established order of the place.

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TU22.03 –     @ Woofer Ten 19:00: (G/F, 404 Shanghai Street, Yaumatei, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
PICNIC 2009-2010: Berlin – Papa Westray. Talk and video
ZONE: Discussion of some ideas for PICNIC in Hong Kong
TWO ISLANDS: Sharing experience of running art project on the island Papa Westray (population 70)  and Hong Kong (population 7m)

WE23.03 –    working process – Zones selection and definition
TH24.03 –    working process

FR25.03 –    JAMES HESFORD: SOUND INSTALLATION @ C & G Artpartment
            3/F, 222 Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Prince Edward, Kowloon, Hong Kong
            (Behind Pioneer Centre)

ST.26.03 –    start of 24hours non-stop working process
SU.27.03 –    end of 24hours non-stop working process

MN28.03 –    FINAL PICNIC @ C & G Artpartment
            3/F, 222 Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Prince Edward, Kowloon, Hong Kong
            (Behind Pioneer Centre)

            Documentary Exhibition till 8 April, 2011

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PICNIC11 is organised by C & G ARTPARTMENT, HONG KONG, MAL-UND ZEICHENSCHULE WLADIMIR PRIB, BERLIN and LAND ART - PAPA WESTRAY, ORKNEY

www.picnic.ubahob.com

Other projects by Ivanov + Chan:
LAND ART - PAPA WESTRAY
www.landart.ubahob.com

PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2011 ART FESTIVAL
www.papaygyronights.ubahob.com