Let's think rationally. The interest in Chinese art is bound to wane...eventually. Artists from Vietnam and Cambodia, two countries in the midst of developing unique intellectual critical discourses of their own, will be exhibited for the first time in Shanghai. Get you pocketbooks ready. This could be the next big bubble. Opens at 8pm. For me there can be no art revolution that is separate from a science revolution, a political revolution, and education revolution, a drug revolution, a sex revolution or a personal revolution...will not call myself art worker but art dreamer and I will participate only in a total revolution simultaneously personal and public.

From Lee Lozano's 1969 statement for open hearings, art workers coalition
Lozano states the need of the personal revolution as a main point of departure of any change. Starting this essay with Lozano's radical statement, trying through exhibition to present the state of the people working in a field, who are much more art dreamers then workers. Art Dreamers in a sense bring more radical viewpoint of art making with not that much connection to the commercial world which is almost impossible today. Art Dreamers work on self revolution that has Utopian need to total revolution.

Strategies from within shares the vision of the personal attempts for the change,
The exhibition is also the result of research conducted in Saigon, Phnom Penh and Hanoi. This research, in turn, attempts to allow for a wider reflection of the contemporary culture in both Vietnam and Cambodia through the presented body of the works. Vietnam and Cambodia are currently in a process of building their own intellectual critical discourses, which today remains underground, alluding to the issues of both nations' political and economical development. The work that has been done by these individuals and the small number of institutions in recent years past spans a spectrum much broader than the visual arts itself. This work has also provided
and built new cultural, educational, discussion platforms that fill the voids left behind by many turbulent years of war and upheaval.

At the same time, these young intellectuals and artists are building a critical discourse and practice while also trying to rebuild the cultural milieu of their own societies.
The new possibilities and uncertain futures that are characteristic of these circumstances create a recipe for cultural practices that are little known to the rest of the world, and which develops it's own survival techniques and strategies in this time of globalization– one of many issues that they are currently grappling with.

Since they have generally received less attention from the global art world and art market, this has provided a certain amount of independence for the development of their own contemporary artistic practices, although it has been difficult to develop these survival strategies, with little or no institutional support system.
This exhibition strategically presents artists from different generations in order to show the shift in the range of issues that they encounter and deal with, and the presentation methods of their works.

This project also involves a variety of themes that the different individuals present as crucial to their practice, revealing a broader perception of the societies in which they inhabit through their artworks. The foundational curatorial concept of the exhibition is to present key figures in their local contexts; to present many up and coming artists in the most complete way possible, representing their overall artistic oeuvre; and to present works of art that will provide the audience better insight into the issues that the artists themselves try to raise in connection to their local scenes. Despite the use of
the group exhibition framework, and including artists from two countries as well, the exhibition attempts to emphasize the individual presence of each artist in the strongest way possible, presenting works from different periods and locations, thereby combining the presentation of different bodies of work within the larger exhibition to create a model that is somewhere in between the solo exhibition and group exhibition format.

At the same time the exhibition tries to push the possibilities of the artists towards more active participation within group exhibitions in general. The exhibition will also contain a few smaller projects inside.