Gazetteer-novel collective
China
The Gazetteer-novel collective originates from the Gazetteer-novel Joint Residency Programme. Since 2017, Gazetteer-novel has been inviting artists, writers and social workers to more than 20 cities and villages in order to work more proactively at the local level. In 2021, Gazetteer-novel collective is set up to develop a targeted artistic and writing practice in a multidisciplinary way, addressing specific topics in specific places.
Visits to Silk
Videos, pictures, mixed media
Variable size
2022
A reflection on the canal system and the changes in the silk industry, a search for memories of silk mills in different times and places.
Based on the novel Cocoon written by anthropologist Fei Xiaotong in 1938, the Gazetteer-novel collective compares the scenes and plot of the silk factory by the canal featured in the novel with the Linghu silk factory, which is currently located by the canal in the Taihu Lake region.
At the same time, the creative collective combines methods including field research, architectural mapping, and design fiction to reflect upon the events of the silk industry in the Hangjiahu region: the "Sericulture Moving from East to West", the "Cocoon War", the women workers in the silk factories, the ecology of the silkworm species, and the rise and fall of the cocoon station as footnotes to the videos.
Time and space are like silk threads constantly weaving around you and me, no matter changing or unchanging, it always remains new.
Visits to Silk members: Chen Min (artistic consultant), Chen Zhaomin (designer), Deng Fei (architectural mapping and image possessing), Fen Lei (project co-ordination and video directing), Liu Jia (installation manufacturing and video shooting), Long Yitang (project planning and curating), Shi Jiajie (video shooting), Zhao Xiangfeng (video shooting).
Visits to Silk
Videos, pictures, mixed media
Variable size
2022
A reflection on the canal system and the changes in the silk industry, a search for memories of silk mills in different times and places.
Based on the novel Cocoon written by anthropologist Fei Xiaotong in 1938, the Gazetteer-novel collective compares the scenes and plot of the silk factory by the canal featured in the novel with the Linghu silk factory, which is currently located by the canal in the Taihu Lake region.
At the same time, the creative collective combines methods including field research, architectural mapping, and design fiction to reflect upon the events of the silk industry in the Hangjiahu region: the "Sericulture Moving from East to West", the "Cocoon War", the women workers in the silk factories, the ecology of the silkworm species, and the rise and fall of the cocoon station as footnotes to the videos.
Time and space are like silk threads constantly weaving around you and me, no matter changing or unchanging, it always remains new.
Visits to Silk members: Chen Min (artistic consultant), Chen Zhaomin (designer), Deng Fei (architectural mapping and image possessing), Fen Lei (project co-ordination and video directing), Liu Jia (installation manufacturing and video shooting), Long Yitang (project planning and curating), Shi Jiajie (video shooting), Zhao Xiangfeng (video shooting).
Visits to Silk
Videos, pictures, mixed media
Variable size
2022
A reflection on the canal system and the changes in the silk industry, a search for memories of silk mills in different times and places.
Based on the novel Cocoon written by anthropologist Fei Xiaotong in 1938, the Gazetteer-novel collective compares the scenes and plot of the silk factory by the canal featured in the novel with the Linghu silk factory, which is currently located by the canal in the Taihu Lake region.
At the same time, the creative collective combines methods including field research, architectural mapping, and design fiction to reflect upon the events of the silk industry in the Hangjiahu region: the "Sericulture Moving from East to West", the "Cocoon War", the women workers in the silk factories, the ecology of the silkworm species, and the rise and fall of the cocoon station as footnotes to the videos.
Time and space are like silk threads constantly weaving around you and me, no matter changing or unchanging, it always remains new.
Visits to Silk members: Chen Min (artistic consultant), Chen Zhaomin (designer), Deng Fei (architectural mapping and image possessing), Fen Lei (project co-ordination and video directing), Liu Jia (installation manufacturing and video shooting), Long Yitang (project planning and curating), Shi Jiajie (video shooting), Zhao Xiangfeng (video shooting).
