:: The San Yuan Li Project ::

This is an art project launched by Ou Ning & Cao Fei, under the commission of the 50th Venice Biennale. The project blends video, sound, photo, text, paper publications together, hence it’s taken not only as a multimedia art work but also a case study of the typical “village-amid-the-city” phenomenon in the process of the urbanization of Guangzhou.

The San Yuan Li Project takes San Yuan Li Village as the node of a piece of sample cut from the body of Guangzhou, armed with DV and DAT recorder, the crew penetrated San Yuan Li Village as a kind of “City Flâneurs”, so as to rethink the debt of history, the confrontation and reconciliation between the process of modernization and the patriarchal clan system as well as rural community system in Canton, also, the bizarre architecture and humanity views were captured, all the above will be realized in the form of a video and a publication. At the same time, The San Yuan Li Project will bring U-thèque to the Biennale, the open library in the exhibition will be a venue for the display of the selected programs, documents and the website of U-thèque.