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Tag Archives: Ou Ning

Ruan Qianrui: Waterland Kwanyin Posters

Published on World Wide Pop. Text by Robin Peckham. Much has been made of the vigor of the experimental music scene in Beijing, which many observers–myself included–once expected to bridge the gaps between underground music and mass culture on the one hand and fine art on the other. This singularity, unfortunately, never came to pass, [...]

Good, Bad, and Ugly at the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture

First published at RedBox Review. Text by Robin Peckham The 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture, affectionately known as “shuang shuang zhan” to its devotees, is now open in full force across a number of sites in Shenzhen. Projects span a range of methodologies, curatorial frameworks, and goals, not to mention venues: [...]

Biennial as Limit

Text by Robin Peckham The 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture (not to be confused with the similarly named but politically distinct 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture on the southern side of the border) opened yesterday in the environs of the Shenzhen Civic Center. Extraordinarily distributed and only [...]