Art Is Not Enough! Not Enough! or The making of the Arts in Shanghai '80s-2008, Artist Interviews by Lothar Spree, Zhu Xiaowen, Xu Jie, and Davide Quadrio
Maker
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Lothar Spree, Zhu Xiaowen, Xu Jie, and Davide Quadrio
Date2008
MediumDVD; Video
Credit LineGift of the FarEastFarWest collection
Object number2010:44
About the ArtistArt is not enough! Not Enough! is a collaborative research project conducted by producer Davide Quadrio, filmmaker and producer Lothar Spree, and production editors Zhu Xiaowen and Xu Jie, that examines the changing landscape of Shanghai’s art scene. Davide Quadrio, Lothar Spree, and Zhu Xiaowen designed the concept of the project, and together Quadrio and Xu Jie arranged interviews with forty Shanghai-based artists. The questions, the setting, and the dialogue were prepared in a deliberate way to extract honest and direct answers that reflect each artist’s respective background, experiences, assumptions, and perceptions working within the evolving art community of Shanghai. The resulting multimedia installation presents a cross-section of the Shanghai art scene from the perspective of the innovating forces and creators of the rapidly expanding creative industry in China’s largest city.![The head of Florence’s Antiquarian Bookseller’s Association was her old friend, the renowned Lincoln scholar, Dan Weinberg. Four weeks before Florence died, Weinberg called to gingerly ask if Florence was well enough to be filmed for their organization’s archive. “Of course,” Florence said, and cheerily had her beloved care-giver Kalina Borissova dress her, put on her make-up and help her into my car for her last trip to Titles, Inc. [...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/4587/thumbnail)
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