Chow and Lin, from the I want to bring you around the world series, 2021 - 2022. Courtesy of the artists.

 

chow and lin

 
  • Effective collaboration enables new ways of thinking and creating. The outcomes of collaborations may not always be groundbreaking, but the process would certainly benefit from sharing ideas and knowledge, and considering different skills and resources that each person or organization brings to the partnership.

  • Our focus is on developing interdisciplinary approaches toward complex global issues. In this aspect, collaborative efforts would involve engaging expertise across art, science, technology, policy and other areas to create new knowledge and thinking. As artists, we develop platforms and ways of engagement.

  • We have expanded our topics to different global phenomena including poverty and inequality, sustainability, big data and food security, raising questions about the connections we have to these issues. We have also broadened our collaborative networks and platforms that we engage across art, policy and research realms.

  • With time, the issues that we explore often become even more pertinent. Our projects often build upon each other, and we find new connections with the present and past. We are working on a 40-year project from 2021 to 2061, which looks at memory, and the impermanence and imperfection of being human.

 

chow and lin’s practice lies in their methodology of statistical, mathematical, and computational techniques to address global issues since 2010.

they are based in Beijing, China.

Collaboration with Mia Collective Art:

People’s Park, 2023

 

*Ten Years, Ten Artists is part of the collective's 10th-anniversary celebration, reconnecting with selected past collaborators to reflect on the theme of 'collaboration.'

CLICK HERE to view the 10th Anniversary Table of Contents page.