BEIJING
X_FIELD BEIJING: Jumping City.
Curator: Che Fei
Exhibition opens: April 2011
CU Space
706 Beisanjie 798 Art Zone Jiuxianqiao Rd.No.2, Chaoyang District 100015 Beijing
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About “Jumping City”: in the Second World War, the US army created a “leapfrog” strategy in the Pacific War to attack the Japanese army-based islands. Chinese reform and open policy has also set leaping development goals, such as an urbanization goal, a well-off goal, a modernization goal, a GDP goal etc. Additionally, Chinese urbanization has been realized mostly through the privatization of land tenure in the market-economy development which was confirmed and ensured by the “Property Law” in 2007. This kind of urbanization in the manner of urban leapfrogging has been transferring the jumped area of the “capital frog” into island-like private space. In the wake of this movement follows the indeterminacy of the residential environment that causes continuous mobility for urban residents. Like the urban leapfrog strategy of the “capital frog”, the phenomena of residents continuously moving in the same city because of such condition changes or demolition is called “city jumper” by CHE Fei. And the city or urban block full of “city jumper” phenomena can be called “Jumping City”. “Jumping City”, geographically similar to the concept of immigration and mobility in European and American urban development, becomes a unique concept about immigration and mobility with prominent Chinese traits because of its distinctly introverted character.
X_FIELD Beijing: Jumping City symposium.
Opens in Cu Space at 14:00 on September 12th. 2010
Continuing to X FIELD- Melbourne Exhibition successfully hosted in Aug.2010, X FIELD-Beijing is planned to be exhibited in CU Space 798. As a part of the exhibition, a symposium will be hosted on Sep. 12th, 2010. In order to ensure the profundity and efficiency of the discussion, the symposium will be hosted in a small group of invited speakers but opened to media. In this symposium, the finshed X FIELD- Melbourne Exhibition will be introduced, the topic and content of X FIELD-Beijing Exhibition will be discussed and some of the invited architects and artists will introduce their works and practice.
The symposium and exhibition will focus on Chinese urban development state with Beijing as a background case and summarize the rethinking or even the avant-garde practice of architects, artists and theorists. Some Beijing-based prominent independent architects, Artists, theorists and the head-curator of X FIELD Sand Helsel and some Exhibitor from Melbourne will be invited into the discussion of the topic. In addition, the organizer is the famous magazine “Space”, and this symposium will become the newest issue of “Space Summary” which has successfully hosted a series of symposiums in China. The results of this symposium will be published in the X FIELD series books in Australia, “Space Summary” and “Space” in China. Besides the symposium will be reported live in www.zhulong.com
The exhibition will tour (and return to Melbourne) thanks to the assistance of the VESKI Award in Design 2010.
The project is sponsored by the Design Research Institute at RMIT University and the RMIT School of Architecture and Design.
