instanthutong Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/instanthutong Instant Hutong art project investigates the borderline case of Hutong districts in old downtown Beijing. The work explores both spatial and social aspects to screen the uniqueness of a urban tissue made of lanes and courtyard houses and the community of people living in it. It is organized as a series of art pieces and installations on the border between art, social investigation and urban research in the aim to generate and stimulate an open debate. The work is currently involving questions such density, unstructured reappropriation, gentrification, relationship between people and their physical space, property speculation, disappearing community and identity. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-pink/314099 Instant Hutong art project investigates the borderline case of Hutong districts in old downtown Beijing. The work explores both spatial and social aspects to screen the uniqueness of a urban tissue made of lanes and courtyard houses and the community of people living in it. It is organized as a series of art pieces and installations on the border between art, social investigation and urban research in the aim to generate and stimulate an open debate. The work is currently involving questions such density, unstructured reappropriation, gentrification, relationship between people and their physical space, property speculation, disappearing community and identity. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-pink/314099 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:40:52 -0500 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-green/299111 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-green/299111 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:20:09 -0500 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-orange/298273 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-orange/298273 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:57:55 -0500 Short 3D stop-motion study animation showing a first character that will be used for a movie about contemporary changes in Beijing city, on which we are working right now. Any comments critics and suggestions will be gratefully welcome! - animation by Marcella Campa and Stefano Avesani - remixed music from Gemini Trip (Hu Zi and Wang Juan) - instanthutong.com transformer war http://www.behance.net/Gallery/character-study_transformer-war-2009/247792 Short 3D stop-motion study animation showing a first character that will be used for a movie about contemporary changes in Beijing city, on which we are working right now. Any comments critics and suggestions will be gratefully welcome! - animation by Marcella Campa and Stefano Avesani - remixed music from Gemini Trip (Hu Zi and Wang Juan) - instanthutong.com transformer war http://www.behance.net/Gallery/character-study_transformer-war-2009/247792 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:54:38 -0500 The design of the transformers is arising from the maps of different Hutong areas of downtown Beijing. Each of them has been equipped with special weapons to defend itself from the aggressive advance of the metropolis bulldozers army. Each big city is nowadays desperately looking for some own special item to compete on the global stage. In such planetary competition city politicians turn to use advertisement marketing to bind their city name together with a slogan, a particular life-style, or a new cool iconic image. Transforming city maps into cartoons is a playful provocation to reply to this frequent and embarrassing marketing attitude. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/transformers/232366 The design of the transformers is arising from the maps of different Hutong areas of downtown Beijing. Each of them has been equipped with special weapons to defend itself from the aggressive advance of the metropolis bulldozers army. Each big city is nowadays desperately looking for some own special item to compete on the global stage. In such planetary competition city politicians turn to use advertisement marketing to bind their city name together with a slogan, a particular life-style, or a new cool iconic image. Transforming city maps into cartoons is a playful provocation to reply to this frequent and embarrassing marketing attitude. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/transformers/232366 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:28:11 -0500 Instant Hutong art project investigates the borderline case of Hutong districts in old downtown Beijing. The work explores both spatial and social aspects to screen the uniqueness of a urban tissue made of lanes and courtyard houses and the community of people living in it. It is organized as a series of art pieces and installations on the border between art, social investigation and urban research in the aim to generate and stimulate an open debate. The work is currently involving questions such density, unstructured reappropriation, gentrification, relationship between people and their physical space, property speculation, disappearing community and identity. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-brown/232365 Instant Hutong art project investigates the borderline case of Hutong districts in old downtown Beijing. The work explores both spatial and social aspects to screen the uniqueness of a urban tissue made of lanes and courtyard houses and the community of people living in it. It is organized as a series of art pieces and installations on the border between art, social investigation and urban research in the aim to generate and stimulate an open debate. The work is currently involving questions such density, unstructured reappropriation, gentrification, relationship between people and their physical space, property speculation, disappearing community and identity. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-brown/232365 Mon, 25 May 2009 20:41:38 -0500 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-red/232358 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-red/232358 Mon, 25 May 2009 00:23:33 -0500 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-cyan/231961 Carpets are representing different maps of Hutong areas with a size of approximately one square kilometre and a population of 30000. Each of them has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. Street public temporary events happening all along year 2009 in order to share the Instant Hutong project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from. During the Carpet surprise happenings, fragments of Instant Hutong project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes. Showing the work to the Hutong dwellers is an exhibition way which is sympathetic to the urban and social anarchic structure of the Hutong itself. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/urban-carpet-cyan/231961 Sun, 24 May 2009 04:19:50 -0500 The detailed maps we used as basis for this three-dimensional collage are generally forbidden by Chinese government and at first it was necessary a preliminary research work to get them and then redraw completely line by line. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/beijing-vision/233611 The detailed maps we used as basis for this three-dimensional collage are generally forbidden by Chinese government and at first it was necessary a preliminary research work to get them and then redraw completely line by line. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/beijing-vision/233611 Wed, 27 May 2009 01:37:30 -0500 identity 1500 red stamps on 1500 grey clay beijing bricks Stamps have a central role in Chinese people’s life: they use them to confirm agreements and validate their actions. In a certain way loosing your stamp is like loosing your own identity. Each stamp is not carrying a name but it has been carved with a fragment of Hutong district map, a group of houses, a piece of city, to mark the relationship and identification between people and their living space. The installation is part of the Instant Hutong art project. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/identity/232326 identity 1500 red stamps on 1500 grey clay beijing bricks Stamps have a central role in Chinese people’s life: they use them to confirm agreements and validate their actions. In a certain way loosing your stamp is like loosing your own identity. Each stamp is not carrying a name but it has been carved with a fragment of Hutong district map, a group of houses, a piece of city, to mark the relationship and identification between people and their living space. The installation is part of the Instant Hutong art project. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/identity/232326 Sun, 24 May 2009 20:14:15 -0500