Shu Lea Cheang and Lawrence Chua present
BUY ONE GET ONE at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997
flesh presence with digibento suitcase
Johannesburg, 10/11-10/15, 1997

BUY ONE GET ONE
this offer will self destruct in 5 seconds
NTT/ICC Biennale (October 25 to December 7, 1997), Tokyo, Japan

BUY ONE GET ONE is a two month homesteading project
housing at
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME

Shu Lea Cheang is one of the 9 international artists selected for the
first Biennale Exhibition at InterCommunication Center (ICC), sponsored
by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). The NTT/ICC
Biennale is held to explore further possibilities of new expression in
the field of media art and to provide a new vision for science and art.
The theme for this first Biennale is Communication/Discommunication.
(http://www.ntticc.or.jp)

BUY ONE GET ONE derived its name from happy hour at Sphinx at Silom Soi,
Bangkok. The project explores a digital (co)existence borne out of
net-technology. For the past two years, I have been experimenting with a
digital living, maintaining no physical address but an e-mail contact.
As a drifter homesteader, I have been accessing the net with a borrowed
password and passing with a torn ID card.

BUY ONE GET ONE
homehome(LESS)homepagehome(LESS)pagehome(PAGE)less
For the NTT/ICC installation, we claim our HoME in the
telecommunication's mainframe to house the home(page)less.

Two digital suitcases modeled after Japanese style bentobox and equipped
with powerbook, cameras, and phonelines plus a hino maru bento (lunchbox
with rice and ume/plum ) are netcast ready for HoME delivery.

With Lawrence Chua, we engineer a route that recalls seeds of discontent
and desire carried on trade winds between continents. On the road, the
digi suitcase is transmission central, our last hold to a connection,
our attachment to HoME/System Mainframe. We'll be uploading and
'furnishing' our HoME with wallpapers of the home(page)less, smuggling
memory chips of the ever-developing as we cross borderlines of hyperlink
(il)logics.

Have suitcase, will travel.