motionscapes: lines of memory - site interventions

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

lines of memory - site interventions

A - dushu lake, site of intervention

B - ancient city

C - jinjie lake

D - tiger hill, tomb of first King of Wu

E - grand canal

F - wusong river (suzhou river)

G - ancient village cores

H - new city (suzhou/singapore industrial park)

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About Motionscapes

Jiangnan is on the brink of revolution: a network of bullet train lines will re-territorilize this region of China, including Shanghai, drawing its 80 million inhabitants within a single hour’s commute of one another. From the train, the boundaries between Jiangnan’s ancient cities, villages, and countryside appear to dissolve into a momentary smear of colour. At the very moment the earth has shrunk by the bullet train, Jiangnan’s new mega-city status will erode a sense of community rooted in long stable demarcations of place. The humanity that endures will likely be atomized, lost in a vast, blurred, and indecipherable landscape that has sacrificed community for the high-speed design of a relentless modernity.

Motionscapes, the blog, documents a project in progress. It collects experiences of contemporary Jiangnan. The project also aspires to describe and imagine moments of cultural resilience and rootedness in a landscape otherwise derationed, homogonized, and sacrificed by a manically technologic modernity.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

lines of memory - site interventions

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