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The Red Alert project started in Florence by Leonardoworx and Fabrizio Massini in 2009. The concept is simple: Contemporary urban landscape, and a red plastic bag doubling as a mask. The project has been done in several cities on various scales, and Elephant in the Room Theatre is now presenting the Beijing interpretation.

Fanni Futterknecht researches the mechanism of representation. Within her performances and video works she reflects social and philosophical appearances within society that carry a potential of poetic interpretation. She tries to move those reflections from the known ground of „objective reality“ and to „fictionalize“ them until they are transformed to the dreamlike.

The themes
For the past few years, my practice has taken the form of artistic research, looking for patterns of existence, behavior, customs and thinking that are local and universal at the same time. My focuses of interest are the interrelations of history and personal memory and various aspects of individual desire.

The Delete project

1. An enclave covered with bamboo forest in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, Zeya is known for its traditional papermaking, which involves more than 100 steps. 2. Fresh bamboo is first soaked in lime water. 3. Soaked bamboo is mashed by trip hammers. 4. A villager dips a bamboo curtain model in and out of a sink filled with bamboo pulp. Then pulp forms sheets of paper on the model. 5. Paper is spread on the road and dried in the sun. 6. Paper is cut into various sizes and is ready for sale. Photos by Zhang Zixuan / China Daily

from china daily

"I speak the language I love, for that is me myself, I teach the language I love to children, to let them know who they are." Huang and her husband Guo, a Naxi Dongba culture scholar, have set up a class in 1999 at Huangshan Primary School to pass on Dongba culture, which they run every Thursday afternoon.

They teach children the Naxi language and culture.

Detailed Programm here