2009年12月18日傍晚，厦门大学中国欧洲艺术中心再出新展。 这次展出的比利时和英国艺术家的作品涵盖雕塑、表演、绘画和摄影等多样的表现形式，并以他们前卫的视觉风格，深刻的主题，给观者带来视觉与心灵的双重震撼。

    On the evening of December 18, The Chinese European Art Centre launched its new exhibitions in pairs. Belgium artists Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans presented their “Video Lounge”— a space that was created for the audience to view series of their video works, while British artists Amy Thomas and Oliver Irvine showcased their new works from “The Cloud Seeding Project”, an artistic program started in 2005 investigating the effects of cloud seeding on the dynamic relationship between human and nature.

    Titled “Residence”, the highlight of Katleen and Ronny’s exhibition illustrates the complicated relationship between art, architecture and the economy from a multitude of angles that represent the diversity of human perception. Jointly produced with students majoring in multimedia from the Art College of Xiamen University, the videos in “Residence” were first all shot by the students and later on processed by three individual groups, demonstrating the endless possibilities of understanding and form of expression on a single subject matter. The other two group videos on show, titled “On Value” and “Backsourcing”, further investigate this issue with the involvement of guest curators Nav Haq and Vincent Meessen.

    Covering a wide range of mediums, Amy Thomas and Oliver Irvine’s exhibition utilises sculpture, performance, painting and photography to examine the issue of harmonic co-existence of human and nature on the global scale. Topics on people’s belief systems, communication, intention to control, destiny and possibility were all included in their discussions embodied in the form of art. “We have been cautious about not letting out project become merely a commentary or criticism on the idea of humans exerting control over the natural world. What we are aiming at is to create a platform for open communication in order to draw people’s attention to this issue. Human beings have been trying to play the role of God and to take control over the natural world, which will lead to disastrous or revolutionary consequences.”

    The exhibitions will run through January 7th 2010. For further information on “The Cloud Seeding Project”, please go to www.atoiarts.org. The project will end in Britain in June.