Book-Launch @ C*SPACE, Berlin, July 9th
17:00-19:00 Uhr
Langhansstraße 86, 13086 Berlin



BEIJING22


Features, Stories:

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. positions → featured Wu Jin by Rania Ho Wu Jin is an experiment in running a small business that supports a platform for events, performances and different activities — all while dealing with the different challenges Beijing’s hutong alleyways and the local government have to offer. positions → featured 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 → story Beijing Mushroom by Yu Gong and Zhangbolong Liu In Beijing people sometimes spot giant green mushrooms by the road. In summer they stand still, but in winter, they seem to be breathing and spreading their spores at night. residencyprojects → story Making Xiong’an: Remnants Promises One Thousand Years by Annie Malcolm We are here in the catastrophic. How can it be “good” in spite of things? What are the aesthetics of a good anthropocene? residencyprojects → featured

Archive

Walls and WalnutsMar 10, 2020 An ongoing project in a collaboration with artists Zhangbolong Liu and Jialin Yang Exhibition: A Truck Is Parked in the Grass Near a Tree in DoubtJan 17, 2020 Exhibition of seven international projects concerning Beijing’s urban space and the effect and strategies of its changes. Talk No. 5: Seeing the OlympicsDec 7, 2019 Visual Communication and Image-Making. Talk No. 4: Green BeltNov 2, 2019 A common problem that cities all around the world are sharing is the growing urban pollution problem. 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. Responding 回应July 2019 A group exhibition with Liu Shiyuan, Xiaofei Mo, Linyao Kiki Liu, Amy Suo Wu, Zhuxin Wang, Maj Horn, Scott William Raby, and The Social Sensibility Research & Development Department 合作工作站 Cooperation Lab:
ColorJune 2019 One-month residency in Baitasi, Beijing, “Color” is about seizing a special power as readers “read” a “text” of the given community than merely to establish a metaphorical connection to the site. Research-Grants 2019April 2019 we are happy to have four artists/groups receiving our research grants for 2019 Talk No. 3: Ten Years AfterDec 14, 2018 In what way does the Beijing pre and post-Olympics Beijing differ? How are events like the Olympics utilized for a Chinese urbanization model? In This Moment 在这片刻Dec 7, 2018 a new body of photo works by Canadian artist John Monteith Residence: Jannis SchulzeAutumn 2018 Jannis Schulze is a photograper, born in 1987 in East Berlin and based in Berlin What do you see when you look out the window?Aug 27, 2018 an interactive photo book, published along with the exhibition »A Day in the Outer Ring 《环外游》« Residence: John MonteithAutumn 2018 with a focus on the reconstruction of the city, the topography and the "blank space" that preserve the traces of the city's history, John Monteith will be our resident in autumn 2018 Casting Haze, BaseAug 16, 2018 lecture performance and installation by Katrin Hornek Residence: Katrin HornekSummer 2018 Katrin Hornek’s work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene. Uncut Talks: Alternative Spaces Under Pressure 2018 UNCUT TALKS will provide an un-edited, raw archive of opinions and ideas A Day in the Outer RingAug 11, 2018 collages in physical space - Sponge Gourd Collective Scenic tunnelJuly 21, 2018 translating the imaginaries of urban mapping into human forms - exhibition by Leng Yue and Xiao Xiao Staying away from the grass is humaneJul 6, 2018 A Collage of Intermediate Results by Johanna K. Becker Residence: Johanna K BeckerSummer 2018 Johanna K Becker focuses on finding “archaic” images of landscape and ideas of paradise which she sees as traditional manifestations, simulations and simulacra of landscape and nature and which she artistically recreates in a distinctively artificial manner. B-Side Festival EditionJun 20, 2018 Cultural Agents of Change - Urban Production and the Educational Turn Talk No. 2: Science FictionJun 9, 2018 Stories, dreams and myths create connections between people and places, they make space tangible and can arouse the desire to settle them. In the construction process of cities, ideas and thought experiments are just as essential a part as steel and concrete are. Research-Grants 2018April 2018 we are happy to have four artists/groups receiving our research grants for 2018 Residence: Rachele MaistrelloSpring 2018 »My works are encounters« Talk No. 1: PeripheriesJan 20, 2018 discussions on cities mostly focus on city cores and centers, while their peripheries only draw little attention 北京土行孙 Part 1/ Teleport Beijing Part 1Dec 18, 2017 exhibition by Leng Yue and Xiaoxiao Residence: Ute AdamczewskiAutum 2017 Ute Adamczewski is a video artist and filmmaker from Germany. Fantastic GroundsApril 17, 2017 architectural renderings form the cornerstone of public communication in contemporary architecture – an exhibition at I: project space by Jiu Jiu