an interactive photo book, published along with the exhibition »A Day in the Outer Ring 《环外游》«
What do you see when you look out the window?
What Do You See When You Look Out the Window《你看外面风景的时候会想到什么？》, published along with the exhibition »A Day in the Outer Ring 《环外游》«, is an interactive photo book designed for readers to alter by placing stickers on it. Designed to fit in the sanitary bag placed in front of each seat on the HSR, the photo book and sticker collection will be distributed to passengers by way of train seat pocket.
The book comprises photos of impacted rural and industrial landscapes around new and planned high-speed rail stations in Hebei, China, while the stickers are drawn from propaganda outlining official promises for the future. Asking the reader to collage over these scenes speaks to the constant manipulation of landscape in the context of Chinese urban development and poses the question of where agency is located in this change.
Website: Daphne Xu
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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
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Walls and WalnutsMar 10, 2020
An ongoing project in a collaboration with artists Zhangbolong Liu and Jialin Yang
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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.
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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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