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IDEAL X SHIPPING COMPANY AWARDS 2010 IDEAL ART PRIZE
The Moving Crew collective accepts prize, plans project, residency and exhibitions in Grinnell, Iowa and Rijeka, Croatia
The world’s largest shipping company, Ideal X, awarded the 2010 Ideal Art Prize to the world’s largest international artists’ collective, The Moving Crew. The winners will participate in a one-year residency. As part of the Ideal X Shipping Company’s “Making the World a Smaller Place” initiative The Moving Crew will ship an intermodal container between the rural Midwestern United States and Rijeka, Croatia. In addition to the container in transit, Ideal X Shipping Co. will provide Moving Crew artists with empty and discarded shipping containers to use as studios and living spaces along international shipping routes and other locations. From these remote studios artists will track the container’s position, contents and aesthetics. Data from this project as well as maps, expert interviews, and aesthetic analysis will be posted on the website: http://www.themovingcrew.org/. Public performances of the contents of these containers will be held at Molekula, Rijeka, Croatia: June 2010 and the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA USA October 2010.
“The Moving Crew exemplifies the global nature of our shipping company in a highly competitive market. They are aware of the transient and malleable nature of any capital, work force, goods, services, products, and ideals. The Moving Crew addresses many of the same global needs and issues as the Ideal X Shipping Company. We look forward to their residency and projects,” stated Jianyu Ma company co-founder from his office in Seattle.
“We’re really ecstatic!” beaming Moving Crew member Neenah Menasha said about receiving the award. Ms. Menasha based in Chicago, Illinois plans to begin her residency in a small intermodal container next to the Chicago River. “I’m lucky I get to be near water but some other members are just stationed by train tracks,” she said.
More about the Ideal Art Prize [could this be a link from the Press Release that goes to the text below?]
The Ideal Art Prize is an international art award for emerging artists working across locations. Sponsored by Ideal X Shipping Co., the world’s largest shipping company, it was initiated by Ideal X Shipping Co. founder Jianyu Ma and his wife Xiaomei Ma who have supported the arts in China for a generation. Their generosity has supported a thriving contemporary art market in Beijing and Shanghai. “Even in this digital age, artists, galleries and museums are constantly shipping art work and art supplies,” said Mrs. Ma. “They are such good customers it was only natural that we support the arts somehow.”
The award has three components: a cash award to fund the artist’s project; an arts residency; and a traveling international exhibition.
The 2009 award went to Taipei based artists Joyce Ho and Craig Quintero who used the art prize to investigate craters and water on Mars through a series of performances, installations, sculptures and paintings. Past winners have included Jean-Philippe Beinert of Strasburg, France and Zhang Huan of Shanghai, China.
The world’s largest art collective, The Moving Crew accepted the 2010 prize after the initial selection for the prize, Francis Alys of Belgium and Mexico, withdrew for undisclosed reasons. Sources close to Mr. Alys stated that the move was neither a poetic or political reaction to Ideal X Shipping Company business practices in developing markets as some have speculated.
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