Crazy English Camp Tate Modern 2010, Video, 04”20′, 2010
Crazy English has arrived in its mother country. Zhou Xiaohu has brought an English teacher from China to teach a group of volunteers from the motherland of English in the “Crazy English” style. The site of the exhibition, the location, space and relevant conditions, have changed the original performance and the specific connection it’s the environment (i.e. China).
The goal of “Crazy English Camp” is to purposely change the teaching behavior, to make teaching and studying a kind of alienating experience. The expanding implications of English are changed when put into a strange and foreign cultural environment. When a language and it’s culture leave their maternal environment, and then return to be transplanted into that same environment the sense of alienness is multiplied – it becomes a crazy international landscape.
