A bit of housekeeping. In “Langkou Homecoming: Art Sprouts, the P+V Gallery and Future Shenzheners,” Zhang Kaiqin and I reflect on our practice at Qianzhen Girls’ School, 2016-2018. The Chinese citation is “乐把他乡变故乡——“艺术童萌”与虔贞⼥校艺展馆的未来深圳⼈”, 发表于《鹤湖⽂史辑刊》（第⼀辑），⽂物出版社，2022年11⽉。
More publicity about Handshake 302.
This past week, in addition to participating in large public culture events, I also had the opportunity to visit two privately organized cultural spaces. The first was a private collection of shoushan stone carvings (寿山石) and the second was a community museum.
So some preliminary thoughts about what these spaces suggest about post COVID culture in Shenzhen.
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I wrote an article about the awkwardness of Handshake 302’s Baishizhou praxis. It came out in 碧山 14, January 2024.
Its official: Liu He has made take-out ordering skills. On Saturday, September 23, he ordered a rich and satisfying meal for participants in the second edition of “Singleton Take-out.” What’s more, the selection of Chinese and western foods came with different condiments, meaning that during the handicraft part of the event, there were many different kinds of packaging to use.
Continue readingHandshake 302’s latest project, “Singleton Take-out” is now under way. Over the course of five weekends, we’re hosting a series of lunches where Handshake 302 and our guests discuss how take-out has changed and informs everyday life in Shenzhen, especially its urban villages. Our first guest was Li Liao 李燎, whose project Labor was first up at the Pingshan Art Museum. Below is an outtake from our lunch on September 16 (in Mandarin). If you’re interested in joining us, subscribe to our We Chat account and sign up!
Handshake 302 is starting a three-week program to train and encourage people to develop their own walking tours of Shenzhen. Thank you Partnerships for Community Development for your support.
The conversation will be about beginnings, middles and endings; how do participatory art projects create a sense of time? And what’s that got to do with the history of Shenzhen and its speedy development? Inquiring minds want to know.
Last weekend (April 1-2), Handshake 302 set up a stand at the T-Street craft fair. We brought ten years of memories, including original bags that had been repurposed from the 2017 UABB Longhua (Dalang) venue installation “Story of Rice,” teeshirts from “Urban Flesh and Bones,” our series of walking tours, and “Mahjong Parlor,” or “exhibition in the palm of your hand.”
The stalls are lined up in the center of the pedestrian walks in the northern and southern sections of OCT Loft, allowing visitors to browse stalls, stop for a snack or settle into an alfresco coffee shop, where one can rest and watch the different people. Following the side roads a bit further into OCT brings visitors to interesting galleries like Feidi and Dade, or to Ecological Park where many art installations from previous sculpture biennales continue to entice new audiences.
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So, this weekend we’ve brought “Mahjong Parlor” to the Overseas Chinese Town craft fair. Its our second 10th anniversary activity/ exhibition (in the palm of your hand). If you have time today or tomorrow, please stop by.
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