a walk in shenzhen

I realized today how remiss I’ve been about posting links to other projects. Last year, Steven Schroeder and I collaborated to create A Walk in Shenzhen. Steve’s poetry is a revalation. For even more beauty, please visit steve’s homepage.

Found Objects–Teapot Series


Gated Community Teapot
Originally uploaded by mary ann odonnell.

“Morning Tea”, a series of fifteen photographs and essay from my ongoing photo-ethnography Found Objects has been published in Archipelago, Winter 2006, Volume 9 (http://www.archipelago.org).

divine garbage

in the summer of 2003, fat bird theatre members produced a series of workshops on the meaning of shenzhen’s diverse urban spaces. the first piece “the human city” was performed in diverse sites throughout the city. the second “the divine city” was performed at shenzhen university. the video Divine Garbage documents the performance of “the divine city” during december 2003. it was edited in the summer of 2004.

dogwood journal

photos i took in beijing over the may day vacation have been published in the fifth edition of the dogwood journal (http://www.dogwoodjournal.com/Archive/Issue5/MaryODonnell.cfm). you can visit the most recent edition of dogwood at http://www.dogwoodjournal.com/index.cfm.