My
Dirt is Matter Out of Place project presented in Montreal's Articule gallery last year, is about to have Shanghai edition: The Shanghai Urban Fauna Mapping Project is a walk, mapping workshop and artist-talk that focuses on mapping the sparrow, the pigeon and the dog of the Chinese megapolis to uncover some of the city's governing ideologies. The event hopes to be a platform to address Shanghai's everyday and current modernization as well as think about present and past urban policies and social paradigms. From Mao's
Four Pest Campaign, to the destruction of Shikumen lanes and the
'modernizing' urban plan each animal has its place in this ideological urbanscape.
The Shanghai Urban Fauna Mapping Project is part of
K11's public program "Mapping Shanghai," and will occur on April 13th 2014.
3:30pm we will meet at at K11's entrance dome to start the walk. The walk will be semi-guided and last one hour. Maps will be distributed but participants are invited to bring cameras and pencils to map their own animal landmarks.
5pm artist-talk and workshop will be given on B1 of K11. Drinks and sweets will be served!
More info here for Mandarin speakers here:
http://www.douban.com/event/21273718/
