Field Trip: Shanghai Project Chapter 2
By Ysabelle Cheung
View of the Envision Pavilion (left), designed by Sou Fujimoto, and the Shanghai Himalayas Museum (right), designed by Arata Isozaki, which form the sites of Shanghai Project Chapter 2: Seeds of Time. The co-artistic director of Shanghai Project, YONGWOO LEE, began the opening weekend conference by imaging the possibilities of research, discourse and projects that will emerge from these two structures over the course of the next 100 days. All photos by Ysabelle Cheung for ArtAsiaPacific.
Puxi is underwater. The Oriental Pearl Tower has gone dark. Mutant sea creatures, glutted with microplastics dumped in the ocean 120 years ago, have made homes out of swanky quarters in the French Concession and within algae-smothered carriages of the Shanghai Metro, which at one time transported over 11 million passengers daily, of a human race at the brink of extinction—at least on Earth.
