Project overview：

“Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area” is a participatory art project initiated by Wang Ziyue which is a combination of young artists working in Zhuantang Town, Hangzhou. This project aims to promote young artists to participate more actively and explore practical issues in the public domain.During the creative process, the artist constantly pays attention to、thinks and discuss how to adhere to the complex and in-depth ideology into the demolition， how to relate to the local residents and the local ecological environment， how to retell and activate the demolition of the waste market , etc. At the same time, I hope that this is a linked action. In the process, people from different identities can be joined to imagine, go through production, and practice a reproduction of a different relationship.

The program will be completed from April 2012 to September 2014 and has completed six activities. Respectively, the“demolition of the screening conference”、the third phase of the “Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area”、"GiveBus"、the social theater is " Floating Life in Crevice "，and three series of seminars on“Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area” .

The project is divided into 5 parts

A “Demolition of the screening conference”（2012.8.9－2014.8.9）

Theme: The project is a long-term projection program. artists are required to complete the creation of documentary or experimental video based on the demolition phenomenon that is taking place across the country. The project will reflect the dissimilar demolition phenomenon of the artists to the public through different video works.

Cruator：WangZiyue

Participants: Yi Lian, Lu Shan, Wang Ziyue, Yang Wu, Miu Xiaohui, Kou Luyang, Xia Mu ,Lu Yuanjion, Zhu Changquan

B the third phase of the “Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area ”（2012.4-2012.11，Resident project）

No.1 （2012.4.11）

Theme: Public events that occur within a day. Participating artists enter the two adjacent houses in the in the demolition houses. A life theater that co-interprets.

Cruator：WangZiyue，SunXiaole

Participants: Tan tao, Xia Hongfei, Zhang Xiang, Wang Chao, Wu Han, Guo Houtong, Sun Xiaole, Wang Ziyue, Yin Ailing，Chen Si,Yi Lian, Pan Ying

No.2（2012.5.1-5.21）

Theme: A change in a demolition block within a month. Participants were grouped by three people, Select a demolition house in this block for a month-long resident creation.

Cruator：WangZiyue ，SunXiaole

Participants: Tan tao, Xia Hongfei, Zhang Xiang, Wang Chao, Wu Han, Guo Houtong, Sun Xiaole, Wang Ziyue, Chen Si, Yi Lian, Pan Ying, Cheng Tao, Chen Junlong , Zhang Peng, Kou Luyang, Tan Bin, Yin Ailing, Liu Xiao，Wang Tianxin，Xu Liang，Li Lun，Glenis Poul

No.3（2012.11.11-11.18）

Theme: “Reuse” of the demolition area. Participants from different industries have different interpretations on “reuse” of demolition ruins.

Cruator：WangZiyue

Participants: Chen Sunwan, Chen Maomin, Cui Yi, Liu Xiao、Wang Ziyue, Wang Man、Wu Han, Guo Houtong, Huang Liang Peng, Huang Songhao, Hu Weiyi, Liu Xiu, Liu Bowen, Pan Ying, Yang Qingqing, Zhu Changquan, HanaKucharovicova，Glenis Poul，Carolyn Chen

C “Give Bus”（2013.3.16-9.16） (continuous public option)

Theme: Inspired by the “Occupy House Movement” that emerged in Berlin in the 1970s, it was independently stationed in the demolition building and proposed the possibility and application of its transformation. During the six-month resident creation period, there are many possibilities for “recycling” a nail house demolition building with “history”.

Cruator：WangZiyue

Participants: Liu Xiao，Ruan Huaijun ，Tan Tao ，Zhang Lin，Wang

Ziyue ，Sun Xiaole，Yang Fan，Ye Si ，Cao Shu，Li Lan， Li Yanjun ，Zhang Zhengan，Huang Chang ，Liu Tian，Jia Hongyu

D Social theater “ Floating Life in Crevice " (2014.3-2014.6)

Theme: I invited a group living in buildings awaiting demolition to re-enact their lives in fact this is not “acting”, this is them doing what they do in everyday life: going to work during the day, chatting after dinner, keeping accounts at night. This building has three floors with three rooms each, and each room becomes a stage. They treat the building as a way station, rehearsing their lives in each room, taking turns to perform. Aside from documentary-like sections, the video also contains rooms that can only be peeked into. Through the peephole, only abstract forms of touch, sound, shadows and crawling, in all their theatricality, can be seen. These anonymous individuals take on a more secretive state within the private space.

Those who have left the countryside carry about their unfamiliar urban life in a way that is neither of the city nor of the village. They are constantly changing between different areas of labor, wandering inside and outside the factory, getting smothered by information from mass media, adding in all kinds of new experiences and forging together some from of social life in a period of transition between the city and the countryside.

Director：Wang Ziyue

Deputy director : Wang Yixuan

Photography : Cheng Yi ，Zhang Haishen

Set:Li Kejin，Liu Xiao，Lin Junjie，Luo Lei，Lu Ruiyang

Clip:Wang Ziyue

Sound: Cai Huiyi，Yan Keke

Actors: Shen Guangying，Chen Shenghui，Chen Meifeng，Wang Shanjun，Wang Jiangang，Yi Lian，Luo Lei，Sun Yang

E "Demolition Theme" Socially Engaged Art Practice Seminar

a 、Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area Review + Note + Discussion ( 2014.9.12,AMNUA )

Discussion outline reference:

I : Hangzhou

Feedback and discussion on the "Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area"；

People's stereotypes about the ruins of demolition in the development of urbanization (homesickness, nostalgia, demolitions, etc.)；

The two sides of the demolition , aware of the "public land dilemma"；

What are the contradictions in the demolition, and the specific contradictions in specific circumstances；

How to enter a demolition discussion with a complex and in-depth ideology?；

The bottom layer is concerned.

II: Nanjing

Nanjing case, the focus, the possibility of artistic intervention.

"Capital Plan", demolition, history and plan in Nanjing "Topography / Map / Google Map".

Slower, lower, and weaker – the art of urban demolition?

III: Society

The role transfer of public art/art gallery space in social space

Discuss the possibility of “reuse” the demolition ruins.

When art is involved in social space, it may trigger a situation.

Can art “reform” our community?

Participators：Cao Kai，Huang Bingliang(Nanjing Wealth investment group & Nanjing Brood Cultural Investment Corporation），Jiang Shu(Art Monthly) ，Ji Peng+Ma Chong(Public Art Dp. Of NUA&Duo Zan)，Richard Kuan(USA) ，First Floor(Nanjing, China)， Liu Lin（ Sifang Art Museum ) ，Ma Li(GART），Peng Lezhong，Sun Jianchun，Sun Wenchuan(Nanjing Broadcasting and TV station）， Sun Xiaole，Tan Tao，Wang Ziyue，Xue Wenwen(NUA) ，Yi Lian，Zhao Xiaofeng(School of Public Administration Hohai University)， Zhang Guifang(Nanjing Software Valley Investment Cooperation Bureau）

b、Donghu Art Project Lecture Series “Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area” (2014.8.30, Wuhan“ Womenjia ”Youth Autonomy Lab)

Theme: Sharing the planning and creative experience of the six activities of the Rehabilitation Area Relocation Area from April 2012 to June 2014, and some thoughts on this. Lectures and discussions were held in the "Our Home" Youth Autonomy Lab. Prince Yue and the artist group Li Juchuan from Wuhan and Taiwanese artist Qiu Junda carried out the five-hour theme of the art intervention on the social scene of "demolition". intense discussion.

c 、Dinghai Tan 003 in Shanghai : ““Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area”” (2015.8.21 Dinghai Bridge Mutual Aid Society, Yangpu District, Shanghai)

Theme: Through the sharing of the ““Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area” in the work of Zhuantang （Hangzhou），and the context that continues today, discuss community-related practices, how to use the functions of our current social interface to transform and transship.

Participators： Chen Yun, Zhao Yiren, Zhou Xin, etc.

“Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area” was planned and implemented in April 2012. At present, the six activities have been completed, with a total of 60 artists involved, and over 100 works have been created, including installations, photography, experimental videos, documentaries and multimedia theaters.The participating artists bring their problems of the current society and the demolition site into their respective lives and creations through the demolition area.During this activity, the participants either enlighten each other, or self-organize until they reach their destinations. Participants entered the ruins of the demolition area, or reconstruct their imagination of the past through various forms of artistic creation, or reflect on the impact of blind development and over-modernization on individual memory.In the future, I hope to continue to focus on more complex and diversified social issues. Based on our historical coordinates, I try to make a broader and in-depth discussion and creation of public life based on the historical view and horizontal geography.

Process demonstration:

2014.11 The 10^th Shanghai Biennale ，Wang Ziyue’s work < Floating Life in Crevice > ,Power Station of Art ,Shanghai

2014.9 Art Project at the Site of Zhuantang Dismantling Area Review + Note + Discussion, AMNUA，Nanjing

2013.1 Greenbox Remapping-The Space of Media Reality , Tianhong Mei Heyuan Arts Center, Hangzhou

Artists：

Sun Xiaole、Wang Ziyue、Chen Si、Yi Lian、Pan Ying 、Tan Tao、Xia Hongfei、Zhang Xiang、Wang Chao、Wu Han、Guo Houtong、Cheng Tao、Wang Tianxin、Xu Liang、Chen Junlong、Zhang Peng、Kou Luyang、Tan Bin、Yin Ailing、Liu Xiao、Jia Hongyu、Wang Yixuan、Cai Huiyi、Chen Sunwan、Chen Maomin、Lu Shan、Yang Wu、Hu Weiyi、Liu Xiu、Liu Bowen、Huang Songhao、Yang Qingqing、Zhu Changquan、Miu Xiaohui、Cui Yi、Wang Man、Huang Liangpeng、Xia Mu、Lu Yuanjiong、Ruan Huaijun、Zhang Lin、Yang Fan、Cao Shu、Liu Tian、Li Lan、Li Yanjun、Zhang Zhengan、Huang Chang、Hana Kucharovicova、Glenis Poul、Carolyn Chen