MANHUA WONDERLANDS TOUR AND SIMULTANEOUS SCREENING:

MANHUA WONDERLANDS opens on the 30th of November, 6- 9 pm, State Library of Queensland Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank

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Art as social experience is central to the creation and dissemination of the Manhua Wonderlands DVD; a compilation and documentation of collaborative and individual media art works developed through community workshops and collaborative artist projects. The Manhua Wonderlands DVD tour takes the form of a mesh-like constellation exhibition, lighting up urban, suburban, and regional venues in a Simultaneous Screening event. The Simultaneous Screening links over 330 public libraries, schools, and museums, with alternative sites such as karaoke clubs, pearl tea cafes, and noodle bars with pre-existing media infrastructure in the formation of a common viewing platform.

Placed in conversation with the globally positioned MAAP: out of the internet exhibition, the dispersion and range of screening sites mimics the egalitarian nature of net art, reaching into the regions with the deterritorialising potentiality that any office, bedroom, street-side or net café may well manifest an encounter with media art.

The Manhua Wonderlands tour presents works by: Jemima Wyman, Luke Ilett, Sean Healy, Van Sowerwine + Alice Lang, Emile Zile, Spat + Loogie.