Xu Zhiyuan

Campus de l'Académie des Arts de Chine, 1994. Dans un contexte d'ouverture du pays au monde occidental, un groupe d'étudiants découvre peu à peu la vie d'adulte où amours et amitiés se confrontent aux grands idéaux et ambitions personnelles. Perdus entre tradition et modernité, ces jeunes gens vont devoir décider qui ils souhaitent devenir.

The 13th Shanghai Biennale cooperated with the artist Yang Fudong in a public welfare short film - "Art, Art, Art...".

The show documents the simplistic lifestyle of living away from the bustling city centers. Each season takes place in a different rural part of China. The cast members are only provided with the basic life necessities and have to take care of everything else such as cooking their own meals and building their own furniture. To "buy" different cooking ingredients and other tools, they have to complete certain tasks assigned by the production crew, such as planting and harvesting crops. Different guests join the cast in each episode and help out with the daily chores. The goal of the program is to bring the audience along on a slower pace of life and to illustrate the joys of a simple lifestyle.