Para/Site Art Space Hong Kong 27 June – 27 July 2003

This project is based around the imagining of a cultural exchange organisation. Organisation is not an organisation in the sense of having an administrative infrastructure or a defined institutional voice, but rather is a fluid composite of practice as enacted by artwork, documents and dialogue developed over an indeterminable period of time.

OCEM involved three Australian and three Hong Kong artists in a cross-cultural dialogue. It attempted to reframe some of the issues surrounding trans/cultural practices, epitomised in the booming international exhibition circuit, international biennales and artist residency programs. In this sense it aimed to consider just why cultural exchange projects are regarded as important and how they affect and engage with participants in different cultural contexts.