in collaboration with Beijing22 and IAS Beijing UNCUT Talks has been recording the recent changes due to urban development in the art scene
Uncut Talks: Alternative Spaces Under Pressure
UNCUT TALKS will provide an un-edited, raw archive of opinions and ideas coming from individuals engaged in experimental fields such as contemporary art, social innovation, etc. This open platform collects, and makes available for everyone to listen to, hours of conversations among interesting people in China and around the world on some of the most challenging and provocative topics of our time.
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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.
positions
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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.
talkconversations
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?
talkconversations
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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