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The Athenaeum<\/a> in Belmont Terrace Street, Port Elizabeth<\/a> will be hosting an exhibition titled \u201cMade in China\u201d from the 17th February 2014 to the 18th March 2014.<\/p>\n

China is often considered the longest continuous civilization, with some historians denoting 6000 B.C. as the dawn of Chinese civilization. It also has the world\u2019s longest continuously used written language. As a country with a wealth of cultural, scientific, mathematical, technical, architectural and political diversity and history, it is marked \u2013 coming into the contemporary age after its communist isolation \u2013 as place of extremes and paradox.<\/p>\n

From information to technology, advanced consumerism to cheap production, overnight cities to radical poverty, China is both shrouded in mysterious praxis while remaining an integral \u2013 inescapable \u2013 part of our every day existence. The call for submissions on the theme \u201cMade in China\u201d encourages artists to interrogate the deep penetration of Chinese mass production while also analysing how this ancient culture continues to inform global culture and innovation as it has done for millennia. Artists are also called to comment on China\u2019s impact on our local context, as investment, and with it culture, enter the African domain with increasing regularity. China is also faced with rapid change and the forces of globalisation and internal domination combine on its enigmatic canvas.<\/p>\n

Artists are invited to submit works which incorporate or comment on the theme through any medium or material.<\/p>\n

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