The work of the Chinese multimedia and video artist Cao Fei (1978) comments on the rapid and chaotic changes in Chinese society. Cao Fei, in the guise of her avatar China Tracy, is building RMB City, a virtual city on the Second Life online platform, a reflection on the recent urban and cultural explosion in China. In Performatik we shall be showing a new video that Cao Fei will make during the official opening of RMB City in early January 2009. Feel free to make your own avatar and visit RMB City on Second Life.

Since the legendary Chambres d’Amis (Ghent, 1986), art, and increasingly live art, has sought out the intimate setting of the private home. In Intimate Parcours you can see performances, installations and visual work by 14 artists. You start out from the Kaaitheater, visit private lofts and flats and end up at the Beursschouwburg. The whole route takes about 2,5 hours.

THE ART OF SURVIVAL PARCOURS - The Indian film-maker Iffat Fatima went undercover in an Indian restaurant in Salzburg and presents us with a multifaceted ‘city tour’ based on an ethnographic view of western society.