toutpetitlaplanete:Cao Fei - RMB City, 2007In many works I try to find different ways to connect and

toutpetitlaplanete:Cao Fei - RMB City, 2007In many works I try to find different ways to connect and interact with society. At the same time, I am trying to construct a new model of society, such as in works like RMB City (2008), which was conceived when I was still exploring in Second Life. I had already developed an understanding of how Second Life works, and I was wondering if I could have my own country, my own community, and my own city built purely by myself. So I started to envision what this city might look like. The video for RMB City is essentially and imagining, a draft design of its overall appearance. RMB City represents any contemporary city in China. But it is also an imitation, to mirror the building and development of an urban center in a theatrical manner. I don’t think its appearance is even the most important issue. Its design could be much wilder and crazier. It’s not a total utopia. It’s a utopia in the making. RMB is the abbreviation for the Chinese currency, the renminbi. Renmin means “the people.” And the R could almost stand for republic or revolution. In Chinese, the name sounds like “the people’s city.” So it comes to take on all these associative meanings. I think it also sounds like “remember city,” a city of memories, because it is actually documenting what cities look like today.Cao Fei Art21 InterviewPrivate enclave - free trade zone of the solipsistic subject or/simultaneously utopian blueprint  for the future/mapped onto the ruins of the present. -- source link

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