https://rrr.network Ripple Ripple Rippling Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:30:33 +0000 https://rrr.network en https://rrr.network/HOME Thu, 05 May 2022 14:42:48 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/HOME RIPPLE&nbsp; RIPPLE&nbsp; RIPPLING A transdisciplinary framework—at the intersection of architecture, anthropology, filmmaking, and performance—that attunes to how Chinese rural migrant workers make worlds. This is an archvie site of the project. Our new site is&nbsp;here︎︎︎. PROJECT︎︎︎ TEAM︎︎︎ CONTEXT&nbsp;︎︎︎FIELDWORK︎︎︎ FILM︎︎︎&nbsp;&nbsp;EXHIBITION︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Project Thu, 05 May 2022 14:42:48 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Project PROJECT RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING has been working with Shigushan village, on the outskirts of Wuhan in China, since 2015. A site of both labour supply and resource extraction, the mundane village life and landscape embody the social and ecological consequences and dependences of China’s urbanisation. Villagers in Shigushan are part of the country’s 295 million rural migrant workers, who dissolve their families as a survival tactic and take turns to float between workplaces in the city and the home village. What has emerged are indeterminate and resilient assemblages that stretch spatially from house to territory, coordinate temporally from daily to multi-year cycles, and manifest as bodily dispositions in everyday life. The precarious livelihood of rural migrant workers is a temporary, transient state that has become part of a broader structure rather than an exception. While such state is at once the result of systemic inequality, subject to symbolic violence and self-imposed, RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING rejects flat victim narratives that often reinscribe marginalised communities as depleted and damaged. Through a situated perspective with a focus on the home village side, the project attunes to how villagers make worlds, from opportunistic reparation of scarred landscapes to networks of care that extend and transgress familial bonds. Such attunement also entails a process-oriented method at the intersection of architecture, anthropology, filmmaking and performance. From participant observation to performative improvisation to collective happening, this project is a long-term commitment to a place, its marginalised community, and their agency, complicity and resistance rooted in precarity.&nbsp; The project has been awarded a Graham Foundation Production Grant ︎︎︎ (2024-25), following a Graham Foundation Research Grant (2022–23). The initial documentary phase was supported by the Driving the Human initiative (2021). Fieldwork between 2018 and 2019 was enabled by the Collective Forms in China project funded by the British Academy. The Architectural Association Wuhan Visiting School (2015–17) was a collective effort in the research with the help of all the participating students and tutors, and received local support from Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Meet the TEAM&nbsp;︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎Check FIELDWORK ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Team Thu, 05 May 2022 14:42:48 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Team TEAM JINGRU (CYAN) CHENG︎ ︎ Jingru (Cyan) Cheng works across architecture, anthropology, and filmmaking. Her practice follows drifting bodies—from rural migrant workers to forms of water—to confront intensified social injustice and ecological crisis. Cyan was awarded the Harvard GSD’s 2023 Wheelwright Prize for TRACING SAND; received two commendations from the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) President’s Awards for Research in 2020 and 2018; and won the Architecture Short Film Award at the Milano Design Film Festival in 2024 and the Best Short Film at the Venice Architecture Film Festival in 2023, all as part of RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING. Cyan’s work has been exhibited internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include HOW MUCH WATTAGE IS ONE HANDBREADTH OF WATER at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, 2025) and RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING at the Architectural Association (London, 2024). Group exhibitions include Critical Zones: Observatories for Earthly Politics at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2020-22), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2019), Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), among others. Her work is also part of the Architectural Association’s permanent collection. &nbsp; Cyan holds a PhD by Design from the Architectural Association (AA) and currently teaches at the Royal College of Art in London. She is also Canadian Centre for Architecture’s CCA-Mellon Multidisciplinary Researcher (2024-25) on field research as a land-dependent practice. CHEN ZHAN︎&nbsp;︎Chen Zhan is an architect, anthropologist, and independent filmmaker, trained at the Architectural Association and SOAS University of London respectively. As a UK-registered architect, Chen had worked on various award-winning projects across scales and sectors internationally, including the Changi Airport Terminal 5 in Singapore, Google Gradient Canopy in California, and the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Leeds (UK). Following a self-reflexive turn from a designer’s mind, Chen dived into anthropology in search of a different way of seeing the world. Chen uses film as a collaborative medium to conduct long-term research-oriented projects, winning the Architecture Short Film Award at the Milano Design Film Festival in 2024 and the Best Short Film at the Venice Architecture Film Festival in 2023. Her projects include Orchid, Bee and I, a fictional ethnography that reflects on personal and collective experiences of living through the climate crisis and the Covid pandemic, and Ripple Ripple Rippling, a transdisciplinary endeavour that attunes to how Chinese rural migrant workers make worlds. Chen’s work has been exhibited at the Architectural Association in London and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Chen is currently part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s CCA-Mellon multidisciplinary research group—In the Hurricane, On the Land—looking into field research as a land-dependent practice. MENGFAN WANG︎︎Mengfan Wang is an independent theatre director and choreographer, with training in History of Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and Dance Studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne. Seeking to explore performative expressions of ordinary people, her dance theatre practice engages middle-aged women and children through a collaborative rework of daily acts and recently focuses on ageing bodies by working with retired ballet dancers. Mengfan is selected as “Dance Hopeful (Hoffnungsträger)” by German dance magazine tanz in its yearbook 2018. Her dance works have been invited to VIE Festival Bologna, Beijing Fringe Festival, Wuzhen Theater Festival, among others. Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou and the West Bund Museum Shanghai, her latest work Narrative Fountain was shown as part of Women in Motion 2023. Mengfan’s artist residencies span across Shanghai, Berlin, Copenhagen and Zurich, including working with Theatre HORA supported by the Swiss Arts Council. Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎ More on CONTEXT&nbsp;︎︎︎Check FIELDWORK&nbsp;︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Floating-Dissolving-Rippling Mon, 16 May 2022 16:26:56 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Floating-Dissolving-Rippling CONTEXT FLOATING DISSOLVING RIPPLING China’s 295 million floating population of rural migrant workers has resulted in a missing middle generation in more than 80% of the country’s rural families today. The rural households are dissolved, fundamentally challenging the nuclear family model. A ripple effect of domesticity is identified by the architectural research on the ordinary self-built family houses of these rural families. In contrast to the modern nuclear family flat as a fixed domain with clear separation, ‘rippling’ as a way of living means to settle in liminality: Boundaries do not separate but bind; Thresholds are not to be passed by but inhabited. In other words, rippling renders a liminal state of constant emerging, unfolding and becoming. What this entails and enables is always being attentive to others, anticipating negotiation, mediation and association. This is vital to forming resilient assemblages of social and economic security that hinge on inter-generational and cross-household dependency. Not to romanticise, the practice of ‘floating’, ‘dissolving’ and ‘rippling’ is opportunistic, and essentially a survival tactic of the marginalised. As vulnerable participants situated within and subordinated to the capitalist machine, instead of confronting, they find ways to relate to the agents of power. These are actions with no lexical declarations, struggles with no overt conflicts and stories with no hero or heroine. Yet, tremendous knowledge lies in the capturing of latent and temporal dispositions in order to find possibilities between dominant forces, agents and systems, which may lead to altering the interplay between them. Diminished and overlooked by the dominant culture as well as the paternalistic model of experts’ leadership, this knowledge is dispersed and circulated as part of the daily life in the margins. Academic Publications:&nbsp; Rippling: Towards Untamed Domesticity, The Journal of Architecture, 2023 [link] Collectivisation, Paradox, and Resistance: The Architecture of People’s Commune in China,&nbsp;The Journal of Architecture, 2023 [link] Structured Ambiguity: Scroll as Method,&nbsp;AA Files 79, 2023 (special feature) FLOATING, DISSOLVING, RIPPLING Scroll drawing by Jingru (Cyan) Cheng Film footage and editing by Chen Zhan [A new version updated in October 2023] <img width="1920" height="1440" width_o="1920" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eddbd1108ee975bb97ad7313dfb29e6207a9e2805a15584f4e55ce4d5dca0c0/Scroll_AA_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182685284" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eddbd1108ee975bb97ad7313dfb29e6207a9e2805a15584f4e55ce4d5dca0c0/Scroll_AA_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> SCROLL AS METHOD: STRUCTURED AMBIGUITY Scroll Lightbox Installation Permanent Collection of the Architectural Association (AA)On display at the AA reception, London, U.K., since 2019 Jingru (Cyan) Cheng <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa13b677fa64087c0970d81390ac0c2bcf06c7e689ed414daea95efc3ff0bf9b/Scroll_Venice_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182685526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa13b677fa64087c0970d81390ac0c2bcf06c7e689ed414daea95efc3ff0bf9b/Scroll_Venice_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> COLLECTIVE FORMS IN CHINA Scroll Installtaion 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy, 2018 Jingru (Cyan) Cheng with Sam Jacoby Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the&nbsp;TEAM ︎︎︎ Check FIELDWORK ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Fieldwork-cover-page Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:30:33 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Fieldwork-cover-page FIELDWORK MATERIAL DEPENDENCIES <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55d656526b1de7b7710f10c69b3baca0cf30dced83f8b7f16a920298a01414da/RRR_material-dependencies_3_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="228127940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55d656526b1de7b7710f10c69b3baca0cf30dced83f8b7f16a920298a01414da/RRR_material-dependencies_3_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> HOUSE FOUNDATIONS <img width="2000" height="1125" width_o="2000" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/631272177f01130cfa3d51c3251975e99fe020a1bdaa074eefb44a74c4edebea/Drystone-house-foundations-in-Shigushan-village_Photo-credit--Chen-Zhan_for-web.jpg" data-mid="228127889" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/631272177f01130cfa3d51c3251975e99fe020a1bdaa074eefb44a74c4edebea/Drystone-house-foundations-in-Shigushan-village_Photo-credit--Chen-Zhan_for-web.jpg" /> CHAIR &amp; ACTIVE WAITING <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b84b142e76ea959fe372676ab5f647862c6b0182f21cf16e06132964ad71029/RRR-waiting-chairs_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="228127764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b84b142e76ea959fe372676ab5f647862c6b0182f21cf16e06132964ad71029/RRR-waiting-chairs_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> SITUATED IMAGINERIES <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/789cd544670a93aa82cb121dea66cde22cb17a6dc0d97ef8a02e71007f2d4a12/RRR_scenario_granny-s-pumpkins-1_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="228127886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/789cd544670a93aa82cb121dea66cde22cb17a6dc0d97ef8a02e71007f2d4a12/RRR_scenario_granny-s-pumpkins-1_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> COLLECTIVE HAPPENING <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b5b4d5eeaa1556ea28491b7b21de53583f1b801683fa6d644c8248d4aa68824/RRR_film-installation_07_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="228127855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b5b4d5eeaa1556ea28491b7b21de53583f1b801683fa6d644c8248d4aa68824/RRR_film-installation_07_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the TEAM ︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎View FILM&nbsp;︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Material-Dependencies Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:16:35 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Material-Dependencies FIELDWORK MATERIALDEPENDENCIES Driving around the countryside, the scenery is dotted by tiny spots of material extraction and processing — supply chain fragments that are almost too mundane to be noticed. Like this random road junction near Shigushan village in Wuhan. Where the white-ish hill is was a lake. Now it’s dried and becomes an open-air storage of construction aggregate. The two road sides are in fact a plant nursery. When trees here grow bigger, they will be moved to the road side in cities. However mundane, those are faint traces of urban life’s material dependencies and how it transforms territories out of sight. <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efd663b0a77f1cffd85a2f5e09bb483c63d701ca661d5a2d1bd280eb29cbb9b9/RRR_material-dependencies_1_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218659449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efd663b0a77f1cffd85a2f5e09bb483c63d701ca661d5a2d1bd280eb29cbb9b9/RRR_material-dependencies_1_1920p-for-web.jpg" />&nbsp;<img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55d656526b1de7b7710f10c69b3baca0cf30dced83f8b7f16a920298a01414da/RRR_material-dependencies_3_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218010114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55d656526b1de7b7710f10c69b3baca0cf30dced83f8b7f16a920298a01414da/RRR_material-dependencies_3_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18f374c4034693299228710fd6da419b7dc2d2d7acedebd9168e8404782dc75e/RRR_material-dependencies_6_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218010111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18f374c4034693299228710fd6da419b7dc2d2d7acedebd9168e8404782dc75e/RRR_material-dependencies_6_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/738dd0e3854b12dfee68b5dbe4d4745bb7b1efbb43f39afa263f374bc07651ae/RRR_material-dependencies_4_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218010113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/738dd0e3854b12dfee68b5dbe4d4745bb7b1efbb43f39afa263f374bc07651ae/RRR_material-dependencies_4_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> Material Dependencies (2023)Photography series by Chen Zhan Back to FIELDWORK ︎︎︎Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the TEAM ︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/House-Foundations Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:11:47 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/House-Foundations FIELDWORK HOUSE FOUNDATIONS House foundations in Shigushan are usually made of stones reused from demolition sites in the village, and they always host multiple futures, oscillating between a potential home and a ruin depending on the family’s financial situation. While waiting for their next phase, these foundations often function as kitchen gardens and children’s playgrounds. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/372f23f7dfb75a2fd3139a4eea55e1481338b8be9e638cda34f70d50c4647c2e/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-Elevation_202404.jpg" data-mid="217996860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/372f23f7dfb75a2fd3139a4eea55e1481338b8be9e638cda34f70d50c4647c2e/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-Elevation_202404.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3deb2302b7cfa5809a4949f7bc26b2ff73d323f753ac1d254dc8b06a79a6908b/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-Elevation_202408.jpg" data-mid="217996861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3deb2302b7cfa5809a4949f7bc26b2ff73d323f753ac1d254dc8b06a79a6908b/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-Elevation_202408.jpg" /> House foundation elevation view, ShigushanSpring VS Autumn, 2024Photo by Chen Zhan <img width="1737" height="1123" width_o="1737" height_o="1123" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c4b0b3ae9d1b3550233d07ccfc84ca9fb63ffc9a776876555efa5aab93fe654/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-Drone_202408.jpg" data-mid="218011005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c4b0b3ae9d1b3550233d07ccfc84ca9fb63ffc9a776876555efa5aab93fe654/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-Drone_202408.jpg" /> <img width="1737" height="1123" width_o="1737" height_o="1123" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a863ff9eb99841b6f0e64ba43e536a1824917879735d6cb8435fec4763d2ca8/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-drone_202404.jpg" data-mid="218011004" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a863ff9eb99841b6f0e64ba43e536a1824917879735d6cb8435fec4763d2ca8/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-drone_202404.jpg" /> House foundation drone view, Shigushan Spring VS Autumn, 2024Photo by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b6dd75d4ba1f78947c70384ea2ba08db91488289472f4f52a3eefb57f643f3f/RRR-Web-image_Drystone-wall-details.jpg" data-mid="217996859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b6dd75d4ba1f78947c70384ea2ba08db91488289472f4f52a3eefb57f643f3f/RRR-Web-image_Drystone-wall-details.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a70e6ecf32210f25d22f78bc8f53f46c053e92cd706500e73f57e1fafd47710c/RRR-Web-image_Drystone-wall-foundation-construction_2022.jpg" data-mid="217996865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a70e6ecf32210f25d22f78bc8f53f46c053e92cd706500e73f57e1fafd47710c/RRR-Web-image_Drystone-wall-foundation-construction_2022.jpg" /> House foundation under construction with recycled dry stones, Shigushan Summer, 2022Photo by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b81857c3641ef6924e03e18911c0c0b266139a5d5ed037c31ca7f095ab6ef37/RRR-Web-image__202404.jpg" data-mid="217996912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b81857c3641ef6924e03e18911c0c0b266139a5d5ed037c31ca7f095ab6ef37/RRR-Web-image__202404.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80eeccb06e654c624d7275f849bd8a7485d07efdfba229e07df6f66b916bb516/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-2022.jpg" data-mid="217996864" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80eeccb06e654c624d7275f849bd8a7485d07efdfba229e07df6f66b916bb516/RRR-Web-image_House-Foundation-2022.jpg" /> House foundation under construction, Shigushan Autumn, 2022Photo by Chen Zhan Back to FIELDWORK ︎︎︎Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the TEAM ︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Chair-Active-Waiting Sun, 22 May 2022 13:31:10 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Chair-Active-Waiting FIELDWORK CHAIRANDACTIVE WAITING&nbsp; The chair is the most common piece of furniture for rural Chinese families. It is also a spatial device that facilitates sitting — sitting down to eat; waiting for something, or someone; or playing cards by the side of the road. Although this act may seem mundane, it matters a great deal where one sits and for what. People tend to sit on and around spatial thresholds — that could be in their yard, at the gate or in front of the convenience store on the village street.To an outsider, the sitting villagers may appear to be doing nothing more than having the occasional conversation with passing fellow villagers or neighbours. What they are actually doing is a form of ‘active waiting’, which enables them to be continuously attentive to others, anticipating negotiation, mediation and association. In other words, by pushing their own bodies to inhabit thresholds, these villagers are actively building up an elastic field of support and a sense of relatedness between themselves. This active waiting on a collective scale is fundamental to forming resilient assemblages of social and economic security that hinge on inter-generational and cross-household dependency, at the time when state welfare is insufficient and core family members are absent — and the chair is an essential tool for its practice. To read about the ‘dinner set’, a cut-up assemblage piece made for Driving the Human festival, please see Chairs at the Table︎︎︎ at the Common Table.&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b84b142e76ea959fe372676ab5f647862c6b0182f21cf16e06132964ad71029/RRR-waiting-chairs_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182800765" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b84b142e76ea959fe372676ab5f647862c6b0182f21cf16e06132964ad71029/RRR-waiting-chairs_1920p-for-web.jpg" />Waiting ChairsScenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022Photographed by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eab630bae26320830d464b3ee9d2102fd6ef232b1eddd862a25ca20e7737f08/RRR_childrens-game-with-chairs_2022.gif" data-mid="182807236" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eab630bae26320830d464b3ee9d2102fd6ef232b1eddd862a25ca20e7737f08/RRR_childrens-game-with-chairs_2022.gif" />Children’s Game with Chairs Scenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022Filmed by Chen Zhan ON THE MARGINS Colour, Chinese, Eng subtitle, 12min, 2023Co-directors: Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Chen ZhanSpecial thanks to Yizhuo Gao (2021–22) and Yunshi Zhou (2021)for local filming support, and Laura Belinky (2021) for consultation. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba4eee7918296c8e2d2abfec7b4be28fef8463d1d0e07585217ccededee0a878/RRR_stool_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218011269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba4eee7918296c8e2d2abfec7b4be28fef8463d1d0e07585217ccededee0a878/RRR_stool_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/215e1ec9253429a7f406cde521a8646f7af0ea96eaef424c3f2c24924c2356fd/RRR_DtH-exhibition-2_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182806288" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/215e1ec9253429a7f406cde521a8646f7af0ea96eaef424c3f2c24924c2356fd/RRR_DtH-exhibition-2_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> DINNER SET Exhibition installation Driving the Human Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2021Jingru (Cyan) Cheng &amp; Chen Zhan Back to FIELDWORK ︎︎︎Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the TEAM ︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Situated-Imaginaries Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:00:34 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Situated-Imaginaries FIELDWORK SITUATED IMAGINARIES A rectangle is chalked on the dusty ground in front of the village convenience store. A boy lies down to fit himself in it, rolling around as though he were lying on a soft, comfy bed. He later fills a square in the corner with dense blue. He said it is the sea, one in the furthermost place. A granny likes to sing. She sings her way around the village. Her walking stick is sometimes a paddle and sometimes a chisel, depending on where her songs take her in places and times. A group of aunties dances on the village street every day after dinner. Occasionally, cars and goats pass. Unphased, the aunties dance around them. These are some recent moments in the daily life of Shigushan village. Our team has been living with the community in Shigushan. The daily activities are improvising, together with the villagers, slightly odd scenarios, in which playing, singing and dancing take place. Feeling odd or weird is the delicate, ambiguous state we are trying to co-curate. Oscillating between the familiar and the strange, it is one step out of reality but not yet into fiction. With improvisation, we hope to stimulate the villagers’ own performative expressions, story-telling and imaginations that are otherwise hidden. This is part of an experimental framework of Speculative Anthropology: joining with marginalised communities in their situated perspectives and embodied vision. At least, if done with care and sensitivity, it is an act of solidarity. At most, such alliances constitute political subjects of knowledge—“knowledge potent for constructing worlds less organised by axes of domination.” To read more on “situated imaginaries” or “speculative anthropology”, please see the column series on PRECARITY︎︎︎ at KoozArch. <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0cabc046d49492dd1e4f2afd85932db9571daa2bbe1daad3136007c54896fd4/RRR_scenario_group-dance_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182808322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0cabc046d49492dd1e4f2afd85932db9571daa2bbe1daad3136007c54896fd4/RRR_scenario_group-dance_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> Group dance improvisation in the abandoned People’s Commune Assembly Hall Scenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022 Photographed by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71efe14e627c83b72e062770adb91bbd31056b9db080e97cc40c0f7241da6fbf/RRR_scenario_solo-dance_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182808723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71efe14e627c83b72e062770adb91bbd31056b9db080e97cc40c0f7241da6fbf/RRR_scenario_solo-dance_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" />Solo dance improvisation in the abandoned People’s Commune Assembly Hall Scenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022Photographed by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0574324c8a364d87e200e2105711ece17560b2f45c2376139141026d70e88874/RRR_scenario_under-the-red-sun_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218012076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0574324c8a364d87e200e2105711ece17560b2f45c2376139141026d70e88874/RRR_scenario_under-the-red-sun_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" />Under the Red Sun Scenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022Photographed by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c468960809f6ac782e4f458486ac0a212deb4aafd309701ad42e06190ee81930/RRR_scenario_buffalo-in-the-room_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="218012075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c468960809f6ac782e4f458486ac0a212deb4aafd309701ad42e06190ee81930/RRR_scenario_buffalo-in-the-room_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" />Buffalo in the Room Scenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022Photographed by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/789cd544670a93aa82cb121dea66cde22cb17a6dc0d97ef8a02e71007f2d4a12/RRR_scenario_granny-s-pumpkins-1_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="182809251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/789cd544670a93aa82cb121dea66cde22cb17a6dc0d97ef8a02e71007f2d4a12/RRR_scenario_granny-s-pumpkins-1_2022_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1081" width_o="1920" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b05a542d89c52b853486b705584fe26641985d0d5f6589919ded3fcb82056d6/RRR_scenario_granny-s-pumpkins-2_2022_1920p-for-web.JPG" data-mid="182809578" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b05a542d89c52b853486b705584fe26641985d0d5f6589919ded3fcb82056d6/RRR_scenario_granny-s-pumpkins-2_2022_1920p-for-web.JPG" /> Family Portrait Scenario in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2022Photographed by Chen Zhan Back to FIELDWORK ︎︎︎Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the TEAM ︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎ https://rrr.network/Collective-Happening Sat, 02 Sep 2023 03:17:07 +0000 Ripple Ripple Rippling https://rrr.network/Collective-Happening FIELDWORKCOLLECTIVE HAPPENING&nbsp; A screen back event in Shigushan village marked the end of the most recent fieldwork phase (2022-23). Through a film installation, we shared with the community how their beautiful daily life and the ‘Situated Imaginaries’ are featured on screen. This collective happening took place in the village’s abandoned People’s Commune Assembly Hall, an iconic site for large-scale political gatherings during China’s People’s Commune period and the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. Our film installation turned the commune hall from a political site into a theatre of everyday life. Almost the entire village came to watch and experience the film installation, and they loved it. Among all recognitions, this is the most significant to us. Documentation of this event has been edited into an experimental documentary The HALL (2024). <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5c0b9436088050ee3214ea580d0d040fd7413317eaf37def1fe105ed8a91c9a/RRR_film-installation_02_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="189541527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5c0b9436088050ee3214ea580d0d040fd7413317eaf37def1fe105ed8a91c9a/RRR_film-installation_02_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b5b4d5eeaa1556ea28491b7b21de53583f1b801683fa6d644c8248d4aa68824/RRR_film-installation_07_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="189559013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b5b4d5eeaa1556ea28491b7b21de53583f1b801683fa6d644c8248d4aa68824/RRR_film-installation_07_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f6148c1948522391b83ab235571e49ae0e9dee6a4df92ac66c54e7318668313/RRR_film-installation_05_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="189541705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f6148c1948522391b83ab235571e49ae0e9dee6a4df92ac66c54e7318668313/RRR_film-installation_05_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> Film InstallationCollective Happening in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2023 Photographed by Chen Zhan <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60a9dc7a5f7d9d8505d17a30fe6309ccede1eae7aaa808a2505ea3fce8a61308/RRR_screen-back-event_02_1920p-for-web.jpg" data-mid="189541513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60a9dc7a5f7d9d8505d17a30fe6309ccede1eae7aaa808a2505ea3fce8a61308/RRR_screen-back-event_02_1920p-for-web.jpg" /> <img width="2277" height="1280" width_o="2277" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fd66543dc605f24e74eb61359f5f3b565ae9f83a333c1b150f29f713fed1a65/RRR_screen-back-event_03.JPG" data-mid="189564730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fd66543dc605f24e74eb61359f5f3b565ae9f83a333c1b150f29f713fed1a65/RRR_screen-back-event_03.JPG" /> <img width="2282" height="1280" width_o="2282" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5742af4b4ba4aca995bcb8dc39b2bc123925e7fa82721d6b3a35536be372b8d8/RRR_screen-back-event_04.JPG" data-mid="189564731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5742af4b4ba4aca995bcb8dc39b2bc123925e7fa82721d6b3a35536be372b8d8/RRR_screen-back-event_04.JPG" /> Screen-Back Event Collective Happening in RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING, 2023Photographed by Mengfan Wang Back to FIELDWORK ︎︎︎Go to PROJECT ︎︎︎Meet the TEAM ︎︎︎More on CONTEXT ︎︎︎View FILM ︎︎︎ View EXHIBITION ︎︎︎ Return to HOME PAGE ︎︎︎