| BREET The artworks of Hsia-Fei Chang are gifts that are equally benevolent in charater. Over the past decades, Pop Music, from which she draw much of the inspiration and subject matter of her work, has established a subtle system of rituals that helps define the acts of giving and taking, particulary when it comes to erotic contact during and shortly after puberty. This is the point of departure of the artist, who pins artificial flowers to the wall, forming reliefs of the names of pop idols, or simply those of young contemporaries. She also made a video about a young Heavy Metal group, which resulted in the group's first video clip and a concert at the Academy onthe last night of the exhibition. Even the decorationof the largest hall of the Casino Luxembourg, a mural based on a drawing of the VW Microbus from the film Alice's Restaurant, with Arlo Guthrie, is a gift: a reference to peaceful cohabitation, at a specific place, during a limited span of time. Which is why the mural is flanked on both sides by photographs, either still images from the video clip of the young band "Breet", or pictures of the fireworks on Luxembourg's national holiday, which the members of the Re:/Location Academy could see from the illustrious bay window of the Casino Luxembourg. But the work of Hsia-Fei Chang also refers to its origins in the media, without which no interaction is possible, nor any giving or taking, a fact that was very much emphasised by Gilles Deleuze. Rolf Sachsse is Dean of the Faclty of Design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld and associate professor of theories of design at the Hochschule für Festaltung in Karlsruhe. Translated from German by Tirdad Zolgadhr |