Inga Svala Thórsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1966. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in 1991, and from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg in 1995. She founded Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service in 1993, and BORG in 1999. 

Wu Shanzhuan was born in China in 1960 and graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1986. He graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg in 1995. He founded Red Humour in 1985, and Red Humour International in 1990.

Since 1991 Thórsdóttir and Wu have been working and exhibiting collaboratively. 

“Think about the rights of things”, the artists insist. “Being a thing is not a question of identity. It’s an attitude of mind – something which becomes clearer when you look around you. There you see a cosmopolitan group of things which has more in common with each other than you probably thought. Being a thing among all things, where you become an extra, there you find the right of things. With the extra position, the right(s) of things appears.”

HAMBURG
JUNE 1994
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
THINK ABOUT THE RIGHT OF THINGS, AN EXTRA FOR THING’S RIGHT(S) ALL.
BEING A THING IS NOT A QUESTION OF IDENTITY. IT’S AN ATTITUDE OF MIND.
SOMETHING WHICH BECOMES CLEARER WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND YOU, THERE YOU SEE A COSMOPOLITAN GROUP OF THINGS WHICH HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH EACH OTHER THAN YOU PROBABLY THOUGHT.
BEING A THING AMONG THINGS ALL, WHERE YOU BECOME AN EXTRA, THERE YOU FIND THE RIGHT OF THINGS.
WITH THE EXTRA POSSITION THE THING’S RIGHT(S) IS APPEARED.

INGA SVALA THORSDOTTIR
THOR’S DAUGHTER’S PULVERIZATION SERVICE
WU SHANZHUAN
RED HUMOUR INTERNATIONAL