posts tagged ‘art’
JR | City Faces | publication
March 5th, 2011 • cities, movingmemos, writings
Tags: art, publications, shanghai 上海, urbanism
JR | City Faces | MARK Magazine#30
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published in a recent issue of MARK magazine an interview with French photographer and artist – and recipient of the prestigious 2011 TED Prize – JR. The publication is a follow-up on last October’s encounter with the ‘artivist’ while he and his crew where working in and with the city of Shanghai 上海 on a project called The Wrinkles of the City 城市肌理. Now online. read more »
Breaking down Beijing + URBAN CARPET
October 30th, 2009 • architectures, cities, events, movingmemos
Tags: art, beijing 北京, demolition, performance
Area around Gulou Dajie subway station | September 17, 2009
Urban Carpet 8x5 by Instant Hutong | Urban Carpet: Brown (Xi Si Bei, 2009)
With a two and a half month hiatus, MovingCities is following up on the hutong destruction around Gulou Subway Station. After introducing the area and the discussion about Beijing‘s hutong preservation/hallucinations, we now look at half-hutongs: a combination of dust and debris, bricks, and semi-transparent green plastic meshes covering rubble and ruins. Snapshots of semi-structures followed by a short intro to Instant Hutong‘s latest project: URBAN CARPET 8×5.
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POROSITY C8studio | Shanghai exhibition
October 19th, 2009 • architectures, events, movingmemos
Tags: art, exhibition, performance, shanghai 上海
Porosity Studio | Shanghai, September 25, 2009
On Friday September 25, POROSITY C8studio came to a conclusion with an exhibit of the students’ work. Entitled E-SCAPE the two week workshop was a partnership between Professor Richard Goodwin’s Porosity Studio, and the COLLABOR8 project (C8), in collaboration with Donghua University (Shanghai) and COFA (Sydney). No Utopia! read more »
I jumped on the wrong train | publication
March 18th, 2008 • 1 comment architectures, movingmemos, writings
Tags: architecture, art, beijing 北京, interviews, ordos100, publications
An interview with Ai Weiwei by Bert de Muynck | Mark Magazine #12, 2008
Mark Magazine has its 12th issue out. Bert de Muynck | movingcities contributed to it with an interview with Chinese architect-artist Ai Weiwei. In the interview Ai Weiwei looks back on his short but intense career as an architect. read more »
