The Art Collective Liu Dao 六岛:
Bing Bing 兵冰, Cai Duobao 蔡多宝, Matt Carols, Thomas Charvériat, Roland Darjes, Li Lingxi 李翎溪, Nick Hersey, Zane Mellupe, Rose Tang 罗丝唐, Wang Dongma 王东马, Zhang Deli 张德丽

In the same way the earliest forms of eyes were born in the Cambrian Explosion half a billion years ago as only simple proteins that could sense light, our sense of time might be utterly primitive to what is to come. Those moments of déjà vu where two distinct places -the past and the present- merge could be the first speckles of a new mental capability in development that will allow us to experience the past, present and future in ways currently incomprehensible. The art of Liu Dao is especially relevant to these themes because of the group’s use of time lapse video, narrative LED work, motifs of change, odes to the eternal, and always-evolving quest for contemporary artistic approaches. Absolute Zero features the artists of island6 Arts Center as they battle with the nature of time’s mysteries and consider the musings and breakthroughs of time’s questioners from 5th Century St. Augustine to contemporary theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. (read more >>>)