NSK Embassy Bejing, 1994

Project Proposal for the NSK Embassy Bejing

When in 1992 we set out to Moscow, we entered a space which we knew little about. The only thing we knew was that our experience of living and working in socialism was very similar to the experience of the Russian artists.

In the next three years we shall also open an embassy in Beijing; just as we had no information on Russia, we now have no information on China. While in our embassy in Moscow, due to cultural and political similarities, we could expect mutual understanding, we cannot expect any such thing in Beijing. We enter a space completely new to us. The series of shows entitled "Irwin-Project Proposal for the NSK Embassy in Beijing" is a starting point of an investigation from which new ideas and themes will develop to become the basis of Irwin's one-month stay in Beijing.