CONFLUENCE: ARTISTS FROM THE SITKA CENTER FOR ART AND ECOLOGY
invitation designed by Dawn Stetzel “CONFLUENCE: ARTISTS FROM THE SITKA CENTER FOR ART AND ECOLOGY” Open House Event January 11th, 2009 Five artists have been at work this fall in the studios and...
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For more on the upcoming open house, please visit the Newport Times.
View ArticleTianmian: East West South North
About a year ago, I had the privilege of participating in Vexed Urbanism: A Symposium on Design and the Social at The New School. I contributed Tianmian: East West South North an image poem that mapped...
View Articlefood-scape updates, closure
Closure on the foodscape project. Last Wedensday, Sept 16, 19:30 at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, mccmcreations hosted a book launch for foodscape, the book. The book is on sale at the Bookshop of said...
View Articlethe wizard of sz
Participants in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennial will Explore the possibility of large-scale effective social mobilization in a time that lacks centralized force, spiritual solidarity and practical...
View ArticleAnother Walk in Shenzhen
Poet Steven Schroeder and I have collaborated to create A Walk in Shenzhen II. The original Walk took place four years ago, 2005.
View Article“Years of Sadness”
coastline 2003 Originally uploaded by maryannodonnell Wang Lingzhen and I collaborated to translate three pieces of autobiographical writing by Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China’s more important...
View Articlepublic intellectual moi
Last night had a pleasant if strange experience as a guest on a live talk show on Shenzhen’s traffic radio station. The station usually plays music and gives traffic updates. They also collaborate with...
View ArticleBoom! Press
Links to sites with images of Boom (and copy from the Biennale website). I also appear in a picture or two. 深圳新闻网, 文化大视野, 晶报网,雕塑中国。
View ArticleFocus on China: Fat Bird on experimental performance
Mary Mazzilli interviews Yang Qian and me about work with Fat Bird. Focus on China: Fat Bird on experimental performance (1/2).
View Articlemore on handshake 302
An essay that looks back at the past five years at Handshake 302, “Figuring Post-worker Shenzhen” has been published in Made in China (vol. 3, issue 1, Jan-Mar 2018). In happy coincidence, one of the...
View Articlemore on urban villages from the V&A
Just recently, I stumbled upon me, Fu Na and Huang Weiwen talking about urban villages. The video was part of Unidentified Acts of Design, an exhibition and series of eight films. The films are worth...
View ArticleChinese translation of “Learning from Shenzhen” is out!
The launch for the Chinese translation of “Learning from Shenzhen” was held at the Central Book City public area. There were several hundred in attendance and young children came up to meet the author...
View Articlethe urban planning imaginary: lessons from shenzhen
Many years ago (and it was a different world), I interviewed HUANG Weiwen about Shenzhen’s urban planning imaginary. The year was 2016, and there was a general hope that urban villages might come of...
View Articlethe village hack residency
Long ago, when Handshake 302 was in Baishizhou and Baishizhou was the city’s most icon urban village, we ran a residency program. The first iteration of the residency was “Village Hack.” Several years...
View Articlewhat kind of public space is the city of shenzhen?
I think about this question, a lot. Because there are two ways of being public: providing public services and allowing for critical public spaces. Sometimes, when my mind drifts into thoughts about...
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