A Thick Concrete Line - island6

There’s a line that divides everything. The do’s and don’ts of etiquette line; the ‘is it too early to lean in for a kiss on this date’ line. Life is chalked full of these invisible lines. Step too far over and you’ve burned a bridge, or worse. Find yourself consistently on the right side of the line and your life might spiral upward for the better—or was it the left side? Some people devote their lives to understanding these lines. Geert Hofstede divided the world’s countries’ cultural values by 6 lines each; China being vastly on the opposite side of the line regarding “Individualism” when compared with the United States. What is one to make of all this? Some choose to take these lines and spray them on a wall. Others choose to balance precisely on the line, nonchalantly viewing both sides from above. Just remember, the view from the middle is often radically different from either side of the line.

Liu Dao 六岛(pinyin: Liùdǎo) is a Shanghai-based art collective of tech-geeks and creative talents driven by innovation and interaction. The collective produces cutting-edge art that constantly contemplates the future of Asia, engages sights and scenes from old and new China, and elevates the skills of new talents by working from a communal forum. Liu Dao's art is visual, interactive, conceptual, humorous, and somber - but always striking, always involving fresh takes on modern technology, and always the product of collaboration. Since Liu Dao's beginning, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, new media artists, software and digital imaging artists, dancers, writers, engineers, and curators have worked together to produce original, intriguing shows. The collective has ranged from 6 to 26 people since its inception in 2006. island6 often features guest directors, performers, and curators for individual artworks or special exhibitions, allowing an international and cross-cultural foundation for original ideas to be born from many sources of input rather than one. The island6 art collective (Liu Dao 六岛) has appeared in acclaimed art fairs around the world, including Art Paris, KIAF Seoul, the Hong Kong Art Fair, SHContemporary, Scope New York, Miami & Basel, Art Stage Singapore, Art Dubai, Contemporary Istanbul, KIAF Seoul, and many more…