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TRANSMUTED LANDSCAPE Qinxuan Zhang Electronic TRANSMUTED LANDSCAPE Qinxuan Zhang Electronic Integrated Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition 2020 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition Electronic Intergrated Arts Robert C. Turner Gallery, Harder Hall School of Art and Design NYSCC at Alfred University TABLE OF CONTENTS 3-10 Re-Understanding 13-56 TRANSMUTE LANDSCAPE 58-63 Catelog of thesis work - screen printing - polymer plates - Collages - Video /Installation /Book 64-65 Bibliography 67 Acknowledgements 69 Technology & Tools 1 RE-UNDERSTANDING Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province in China, which is often more commonly known as the region of the Cantonese dialect. Can- tonese is also the language from Hong Kong, but it is the language or the people of Guangdong area, as well. Guangzhou is the city that I have been living for more than ten years and is a miniature version of how China has developed her economy and shifts in the culture. It is a city containing both the elements of the old culture and new era. When I was a child, I saw the rapid econom- ic development of Guangzhou. I moved to Guang- zhou around 2000, when it was the golden time for Guangzhou. It had benefited from the effects of the “Reform and Opening” policy that is still trans- forming the country. In fact, the old culture was 3 4 starting to be lost when I arrived in Guangzhou but my childhood memories were happy but obscured, it was hard for me to find any clue of its past rich history. The only memory I had was of the hot sum- mers, the crowded streets and the arm-long fat rat on the street corner. However, time went fast. In an instant, it was time for me to attend high school and I saw a new world emerge. Yet, as I continued growing up through my high school years, I gradually saw how the old cul- ture of Guangzhou was be replaced by another pow- er living in this city. Due to the location of my high school in the old Guangzhou I could witness another side, the opposite of my part which was old and historic being encroached by the rapid moderniza- tion of the city in the nearby neighborhood. My high Fig. 1 The Old Western House and Street school was in the center of the original “Guang- zhou”, which might be more like the “Canton” in western definitions. The “old western house”, the traditional market and narrow alley, which appeared in 1980s Hong Kong movies, are all here. People here are energetic living their own life, which is so different from the fast rhythm of city people. If you are not familiar with them, you might feel they are 5 6 too indifferent to others, but they are friendly to their neighborhood. They can quarrel with the vege- table seller in the market just for only few cents, but then meet the seller when Yum Cha, and talk, laugh with them just as nice neighbors would always do. The small shops and restaurants are tightly knitted together, like different boxes placed together on a shelf. They are not fancy or modern, but Cantonese. You still can find the trace of the Republic of China. They followed the old manner of the world. Every- where was noisy, which made me think that how life was made to be just this way. However, this is not all of Guangzhou. Other parts are somewhere between the old and modern Guangzhou. Inspired by the street photographer, Henri Bresson, I started to take photos in the street. I tried going further into the places that I haven’t been before or even to some places that I have been too many times but perhaps miss their rich details that made them unique. Furthermore, I started to study and traveled to different countries, my point of view was changing by the many different city cultures that I experienced. In those years, I have seen the American style of quiet villages such as my undergraduate life in Chestertown, Maryland and the place where I graduate school is, Alfred New York; I have been to Mexico City, whose economy is also considered a developing country like China. I have been to the big city of New York and the small villages in the UK and Japan. These cityscapes con- tributed to enlarge my vision, but more importantly, provide me a chance to a closer look into Guang- 7 8 zhou, the city that I have been living for more than 10 years. At this time, after experiencing more cities, especially Mexico City, what I did not notice at was first was how cities had really influenced me as much as they did. It made me aware of the integral importance of Guangzhou that was always present right in front of me. My point of view is not only of the fancy metropolis coming from fast economic development but the more hidden, or left behind parts that I found new and explorable. I have always known that it is common to think that the center of the city is messy, due to the people traffic, which, comes from people who arrived from all over China and who are doing business and visiting. But the urban village and its people who live there; either the migrate workers who are pushing down the old village and building the modern buildings, or the farmers who stayed, whose land became the mod- ern tall buildings, are parts of Guangzhou as well. I have to say, as long as I see more and more places of Guangzhou, my opinion of her is changing. Fig. 2 The House That Don’t Know If It Is Habitable or Not 9 10 Thus, the shifts of my perspective while my location has been changing, has given me more cu- riosity of the urban changes upon the culture and its people’s lives. I still discover I may have some mis- understanding on how and why I document the city, however this is the city in my view through how I have experienced it. The changes I make on these images is the world in my eyes and my perceptions. TRANSMUTE LANDSCAPE Landsacpe and Cityscape - Cityscape Is the New Landscape - What Is the Urban Village? - Culture Is Making Culture - Street Views with the Unnoticed Trivia Chance and Randomness - The Occasional Crush with Chance - Randomly Collecting the City Fragments - The Physical Synthesis, the Chance and Randomness with Printing Methods - Three-Dimensional layers in Real Time and Space Color - Multicolored Gray Is the City Color 13 14 LANDSCAPE AND CITYSCAPE Cityscape Is the New Landscape Nowadays, I have noticed a new truth in that it is easier to see the city as the real landscape, especially if the person was born in the city from the time after the development of the economy. I realized it when I went to Mexico. From the per- spective of a tourist, like how I looked at Mexico City objectively, all of the landscape is man-made, even the historical landscape. So when I look back Guangzhou, the city that raised me, I understand that the cityscape is the new landscape. Not like the traditional landscape, which has a wide grass field, plants, small villages and animals but instead it is the tall, high modern buildings in Guangzhou that is the main character of the land- scape. The plants, the pets and small villages are only decorations of the city landscape. Cityscape taking the place of the landscape started from the rapid economic development of China. According to the “Reform and Open” program put forward in the 1980s, Guangzhou is one of the earliest cities that had the priority to cultivate the economy, including the policy benefiting taxes and subsidies when trad- ing with foreign countries, etc. To build the CBD (Central Business Dis- trict), companies consisted of local big businesses along with foreign companies that began to establish huge buildings for their offices following a mega- lopolis style that is trending throughout the world. The tall, modern buildings began burgeoning and suddenly the center city changed, everywhere now are the tall buildings. Not only the tall office build- ings built up but also the large residential buildings 15 16 equally large and tall. A high demand for these residencies was created due to the upsurge of pop- ulation brought about by the jump of the economy in Guangzhou. However, the local villagers are still here. So, embraced by the tall buildings, there are still a large amount of villagers in the center that still live in what we call the urban villages. What Is the Urban Village? It might be strange that there is still small villages contained in the city, there are still plen- ty that have not been removed or being removed gradually. It is a kind of special architectural set- tlement in Guangzhou (I believe there are some in other big city in China as well). They can be found everywhere: in rare places or special corners of the city, the place next to a primary school, even in the center of the city. Maybe because the houses are al- ready slated for demolition or the construction com- pany did not have enough time to flatten them, or the land has no attribution yet, but you will see the tall buildings surround them, which makes up this special urban village. Also, you will always find the white with blue trim temporary apartment houses for construction teams that are heavily present in 17 18 these urban villages and communities. So communi- ties are formed from the immigrants, construction workers and the villagers who have not moved out and are still living there in large numbers.
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