2015.11.24
Times Museum Art on Track: Chain_of Small Molecules
Guangdong Times Museum together with Guangzhou Tram Co., Ltd unveiled recently the “Chain_of Small Molecules - Times Museum Art on Track”, an artwork on tram by Sissel Tolaas, which will last to 26th March, 2016. The opening ceremony was staged at the garage of Guangzhou Tram.
·Tram for Times Museum Art on Track
This project intends to connect the four elements/situations that the artist can see Guangzhou is very much about - HUMAN; NATURE; CITY; WATER – through a different sense: the sense of smell. Each wagon represents one of these elements and is very strongly connected through the tram journey. The project invites passengers to place more emphasis on what they smell relative to what they are seeing, hearing and touching during the journey. The ride offers a total experience of the passengers’ surroundings, specifically produced for this city and this tram.
·Tram for Times Museum Art on Track
·Tram for Times Museum Art on Track
Sissel Tolaas was born in Stavanger, Norway, and is now based in Berlin. Tolaas has background in chemistry, mathematics, linguistics, languages and art, from the universities of Oslo, Warsaw, Moscow, St Petersburg and Oxford. She has been working actively and concentrated on the topic of SMELL/SMELL & LANGUAGE- COMMUNICATON since 1990, within different fields of sciences, art/design and other disciplines. She established the SMELL Re_Search Lab Berlin in January 2004, supported by IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.). From 1990, she has collected over 7000 different smells from around the world, including human odours and city smells in her smell library.
·Tram for Times Museum Art on Track
The opening ceremony attracted nearly 100 guests. After the speech by Wang Lili, curator of the exhibition, Sissel Tolaas got on the tram together with all the other guests to feel the special smell of Guangzhou.
·Tram for Times Museum Art on Track
As Wang Lili said at the ceremony, with Times Museum, we are not trying to teach people how to admire or judge art works. Instead, we would like to show everyone the artists’ approach to a question and to invite more people to think and join in the discussion with the artists as well as in the communication with the products. We hope that the word, ’Art Museum’, would no longer be a noun or a physical space, but more of a verb symbolizing actions and movements.
·Group Photo at the Opening Ceremony
