The Brief: To build on the success of Tribe Art Commission¹ with an ambitious project that would match the title sponsor's creative achievements and high-tech innovation.

The Artwise Solution: Artwise selected cutting-edge fashion designer Hussein Chalayan as the recipient of Tribe Art Commission², based on his uncompromising vision and characteristically genre-defying practice. Chalayan responded to the challenge with place to passage, a highly complex project that incorporated such diverse elements as film footage, conceptual animation by neutral, and a soundtrack by Jean-Paul Dessy. Taking the viewer on a virtual journey in a pod-like vehicle, the five-screen installation is a highly poetic meditation on the effect of speed and technology on the contemporary psyche.

Hussein Chalayan was selected to represent Turkey at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and place to passage was included in his major retrospective. To date, it has been shown at Proje4L, Istanbul (2004); Theatre du Nord, Lille (2004); Spazio Etoile, Rome (2004); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2004); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004); the ICA and Truman Brewery, London (2003); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2005); Groninger Museum, Groningen (2005); Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin (2005); and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2005-6).

Tribe Art Commission² required Artwise to project-manage a team of over 80 involved in fabrication, filming, animation, installation, music, press, events and more.