Dial 62761232 , A Document On A Contemporary Art Event

In the beginning of year 2010, a bunch of black suitcases have been sent to ShanghArt Warehouse in the Top art district. These seemingly common suitcases were holding six years ago the artworks of “Dial 62761232”, following couriers in their trips around Shanghai, and delivering a contemporary art exhibition to more than a thousand people. Six years later, these suitcases were reopened: the clever, fanciful ideas and spirit they contained reappeared as before. “This portable exhibition space” unconsciously opened a new way of thinking in the contemporary art archives space ofr ShanghArt – collecting projects and research themes, adding to the history –constitutes our main working direction.

This exhibition is based on the idea of “delivery”, the title consists in the telephone number of a courier company. People just had to dial this number to view an “exhibition” delivered by a courier, who would show each of the works one after the other. People could have this “courier exhibition” delivered in any places (within Shanghai).
Each artist were asked to make a portable work that couriers could carry with them. Then 10 to 15 couriers were delivering these works everywhere in Shanghai. Artists had to make 15 copies of one same work so each courier could have one.