The painting performance “Lost in Conversation” is the first event of the 14-part special project “Where are we now? Digital -Real 2021”. All projects will be presented digitally on the new homepage www.acfbeijing.com and accompanied in the form of videos, streams, texts and images as well as a new podcast series “Let’s Talk Future”. Olga Georgieva will be painting at Galerie Silvia Steinek in Vienna and Cui Guotai at his studio in Beijing. They will be filmed during their work and connected through a livestream. Olga and Cui are physically each on one side of a “wall” represented by the spatial distance between Vienna and Beijing. This emblematic wall is overcome by digital networking across time and space. Although the two cannot see each other during the work, they create virtual commonalities through communication and paint two different yet unifying images that deal with the existence and overcoming of borders.
