Wednesday, 25 September 14:30-16:30 Lecture/Performance: Speculative cityscapes

Collaborative performance lecture on the speculative landscapes of China’s urbanization with artist Yang Jialin (China) and researcher/curator Antonie Angerer (Germany)

Organizer: Elena Meyer-Clement

Location: Festsalen, building 11, room 11C-0-8A , University of Copenhagen  

We invite for a for a performance lecture on the speculative landscapes of China’s urbanization with artist Yang Jialin and curator/researcher Antonie Angerer. The immersive lecture lets the audience travel into one of China’s most prominent city-making projects, Xiongan New Area. Visual and audio material collected by Yang Jialin gets into dialogue with the research that Antonie Angerer has conducted on collective place-making through media in early urbanization processes. The lecture takes the perspective of the social worlds affected by a gigantic state-led project. Living through a phase of the yet to come invites different speculations on how an urban future may look like. Poetic reflections through sound and text are collaged with the spectacle produced in the public and digital space surrounding rapid transformation of a former rural and future urban landscape.