A collaboration between Hong Kong based non-profit organisations, POP-UP Studio-X Shenzhen, and the Value Factory at the Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen 22 February 2014 –This one-day programme critically examines the production and shaping of narratives around cultural regeneration projects like the Value Factory, a rehabilitated floating glass factory in Shekou, Shenzhen, where the Biennial takes place.
As more and more sites, from heritage to industrial, are repurposed to house creative industries in the name of ‘preservation,’ we need to deliberate questions of sustainability and the formation of creative spaces in a capitalistic context and the commodification of cultural industries both past and present.
Through screenings, discussions, and site tours, this programme examines the relationship of heritage site renewal to gentrification and its effects on the local as well as the place of autonomous practice in a highly industrialised world.
Opening with legendary filmmaker Charlie Chaplin’s celebrated silent film Modern Times (1936), a critical commentary on the labor, employment, and fiscal conditions subjected on people in the industrialised world after the Great Depression, the first part of the programme will focus on the definitions of preservation and consider for whom such cultural renewal is for. Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) Creative Director Ole Bouman, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Art Director Carol Yinghua Lu, Artistic Director of the Shenzhen Art Museum Lu Hong, scholar Koon Yeewan, and artist Eddie Lui Fung-Ngar will contribute to the discussion.
The second part of the programme begins with a screening of Whose Utopia (2007), local Guangzhou artist Cao Fei’s film about the interplay of factory workers’ dreams and their conflicts with the realities of modern life in China’s rapidly expanding industrial cities. The following discussion will use the PRD region as a starting point to examine practices that while inhabiting the creative industry also heed to the needs and wants of the local. Speakers include architect and Director of Global Programming at Studio-X New York Marina Otero Verzier, architect Jianxing He, architect and Associate Professor in the faculty of architecture at Hong Kong University Eric Schuldenfrei, and artists Zheng Guogu and Keith Lam.
Using the occasion of the Urbanism/Architecture Biennale as a platform to question the role of creative development in former industrial areas, these programmes hope to broaden the framework of both urbanism and architecture beyond the cultural sphere to include the local, the industrial, and the vernacular of the PRD.
This event is organised by The School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive, Para Site Art Space, The Ink Society and Hong Kong Arts Festival in collaboration with POP-UP Studio-X Shenzhen and The Value Factory at the Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen.
是次活動由香港五間非牟利機構、POP-UP Studio-X深圳，以及深港城市 \ 建築雙城雙年展之價值工廠聯合舉辦。
一天的活動將探索深港城市 \ 建築雙城雙年展之價值工廠的演變過程，並討論其由社會、文化和經濟網絡所構成的空間論述。
位於深圳蛇口工業區的廢棄玻璃工廠經改建後，成爲今日的價值工廠。作為探討藝術、建築與都市化的平台，「連結珠三角地區在地性與文化網絡」檢視如價值工廠及其他由廢棄空間改建而成的文化創意空間的發展脈絡。來自不同背景的文化工作者及學者，將透過文化产业和行動者實踐的模式拆解紳士化（Gentrification）的多層涵義。
主辦單位
亞洲藝術文獻庫 、香港中文大學建築學院、ParaSite藝術空間、水墨會 及 香港藝術節
協辦單位
POP-UP Studio-X 深圳及深港城市 \ 建筑双城双年展之價值工廠
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