The Field

Market-driven Unintentional Development // THE FIELD

领域 // 无垠城市

A clinical observation of China’s unique hybrid landscapes, THE FIELD is an interactive video installation that utilizes the common experience of a train ride to examine the evolving nature of what was once ‘the countryside’.

这个作品是中国的独特的混合景观------啮合的农村和城市的临床观察。该作品是一个交互式视频装置，利用乘坐火车的共同经验，审视曾经的农村发展的本质”。

This interactive video installation is a clinical observation of the expansive ruralurbanindustrial hybrid that has come to dominate the Chinese landscape. The buttons allow the viewer to stop and start the video to carefully examine the reality of this endless city from the train slicing through the landscape. This allows infinite snapshots of a near endless suburbia. The abundance of functional space in these urban tracts relies on an expanding net of infrastructure, further stretching the granular dispersion consuming open and productive land. This provocative installation is a starting point of a discussion on how the Chinese city is forging new notions of urbanity.

这个交互式视频装置是对不断扩张的中国乡村/城市/工业混合体的临床观察。这些混合体已经主宰了中国的景观。按钮让观众可以随意控制视频的暂停和播放，当火车飞驰，通过窗口映出的景色，得以审视这无边的城市，形成一个无尽的近乎无限的郊区快照。这些城市中丰富的功能空间依赖于一个不断扩大的基础设施网络，进一步拉伸至分散的颗粒状，消耗广博和肥沃的土地。这种挑衅的安装是一个探讨中国的城市是如何锻造城市新概念的出发点。