Ute Adamczewski is a video artist and filmmaker from Germany.
Residence: Ute Adamczewski
Her work revolves around the urban fabric as a mirror of society. During her residency at I: project space in autumn 2017 she was working on the video project I:conditions, which addresses the Chinese city as a showcase for radical transformation. In a film arrangement, I:conditions observes routines: dwelling, work, leisure. Filmed in the infinite high rise-compounds which represent Beijing, each video reveals the interdependence between the urban environs and a protagonist who lives and works there. Within each subjective spatial description, differing realities become visible.
Website: Ute Adamczewski
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Place of the Day – Urban Utopia and the Nostalgic Garden
by Weili Zhang
This essay discusses the titular terminologies (Utopia, Nostalgia, Garden and Place) in relation to each other, showing how various concepts are interlinked through a brief account of history and observations of contemporary Chinese society.
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Stranger Than Science-Fiction?
by Samuel Kay and Muxia Liu
Urban Inequality, Density, and the Spatial Imaginaries of Beijing’s City Plan and Hao Jingfang’s Folding Beijing
residencyprojects
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Walls and WalnutsMar 10, 2020
An ongoing project in a collaboration with artists Zhangbolong Liu and Jialin Yang
research-grantsprojects
A Thousand-Year StageAugust 2019
A Thousand-Year Stage (2019) is an experimental non-fiction film that features local residents of Xiongan New Area, Chinaʼs most recently planned megacity, awaiting its transformation. By Daphne Xu.
exhibitionprojects
past talks
Talk No. 5: Seeing the OlympicsDec 7, 2019
Visual Communication and Image-Making.
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Talk No. 3: Ten Years afterDec 15th, 2019
In what way does the Beijing pre and post-Olympics Beijing differ? How are events like the Olympics utilized for a Chinese urbanization model?
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Talk No. 4: Green BeltNov 2, 2019
A common problem that cities all around the world are sharing is the growing urban pollution problem.
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