Posts Tagged ‘Shanghai’

The City is My Playground

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

By Kiša Lala

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

The city is fenced in by walls, carved up by streets, railings and barricades. Paths guide people through the city and prevent them spilling into places outside them. Free-runners transgress spaces off-limits, ascend the sides of dwellings, jump gaps between them. Walls, hurdles, ramparts do not stop them from going through them. Through their bodies the city is made transparent, its skeleton exposed.

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

Still from Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s documentary My Playground

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China Prophecy: SHANGHAI

Friday, October 9th, 2009

By JRS

China Prophecy: Shanghai explores 21st-century skyscraper city of Shanghai and is the third in a cycle of three related exhibitions entitled FUTURE CITY: 20 | 21 that juxtaposes a retrospective of American visions of the skyscraper city of the future from the early 20th century with an exploration of Chinese cities today, pursuing the parallel conditions of rapid modernization and urbanization. The second exhibition of the cycle, Vertical Cities, focused on Hong Kong and New York. (more…)