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what might street art be?
I’ve been thinking about the possibility of creating “experimental art” on Shenzhen’s streets. About a year ago, two Dutch artists led a two-day workshop here. They asked us to think about art as...
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blooming despite
Generally, walls of some kind not only separate construction sites from the street, but also provide a space for particular kinds of public discourse on and about Shenzhen. On these walls, development...
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Found Objects–Teapot Series
Gated Community Teapot Originally uploaded by mary ann odonnell. “Morning Tea”, a series of fifteen photographs and essay from my ongoing photo-ethnography Found Objects has been published in...
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objectified space
two questions have prompted me to specify what i want to achieve through the found objects project. lesley sanderson posed the first question at the cruel/loving bodies exhibition, “look at you work...
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glass edges
most construction sites in shenzhen are provisionally gated with cement and brick walls, glass edges, and barbed wire. once the project is finished, more elegant, or perhaps less blatent walls replace...
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houhai monuments–found objects
temporary nursery, houhai it’s been over six months since i last walked this particular section of houhai. the road has been laid and now traverses the entire site. they’re even planting trees as part...
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found objects: houhai
this entry unites two of my obsessions: discarded objects and the houhai land reclamation project. looking from old coastline toward the houhai land reclamation in shekou, the land reclamation project...
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seaworld trashed
Went to Seaworld today. The transformation of Shekou continues – open metro, raze everything in the sunken mall in front of De Galle’s ship, insert newer, taller, bigger, more expensive stuff. Images...
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field at hongshuwan
Plastic bags and spent firecrackers accumulate on reclaimed field at the Hongshuwan subway station. Click to view slideshow.
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orange tubes
This morning while touring an abandoned factory in Shekou, I encountered massive orange tubes. By themselves somewhat uninteresting, yet arranged beneath a banyan tree suddenly transformed into art....
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