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 Cao Fei, artist, born 1978 in Guangzhou,lives and works in Guangzhou & Beijing www.caofei.com Ou Ning, artist, designer, born 1969 in Zhangjiang, lives and works in Guangzhou & Beijing www.dazhalan-project.org www.alternativearchive.com  ⁄⁄ Cao Fei with Ou Ning: Dazhalan Project, 2005  This project is about researching and filming the area of
Dazhalan, which is a slum in Beijing. The Dazhalan Pro
ject is an extension of San Yuan Li (the village-in-city in
Guangzhou), a project that was featured in the 50th Venice
Biennale in 2003. Together with an upcoming project
about Caoyang Xincun in Putuo District in Shanghai (a
workers' community in Shanghai, 2006), it will make up
a series of research and creative practice concerning urbanization
and impoverished communities in China.
The area of Dazhalan in Beijing is located in the southwestern
corner of Tiananmen Square, covering Qianmen Avenue
in the east, Nan Xinhua Street in the west, Zhushikou
Xi Avenue in the south and Qianmen Xi Avenue in
the north and is under the jurisdiction of the Xuanwu
District ⁄⁄ ... ⁄⁄Catalogue excerpt, by Ou Ning Works in the exhibition: Dazhalan Project, 2005, video, publication, website; loan of the artists |
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