Urban China "Informal Cities"

The New Museum of Contemporary Art

poster for Urban China "Informal Cities"

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This is the exhibition of Urban China, the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in China. The magazine's global, cross-disciplinary network of correspondents and collaborators merge rigorous methods of data collection and analysis of rapidly developing cities in China, with witty graphic representations of their findings. This dichotomy endows the magazine with an ability to take dense reams of seemingly unrelated information and spin it into digestible narrative webs, suggesting unknown connections that shape the way cities and lives are continually made and remade. This installation will include a built environment of reclaimed construction materials; a massive wall graphic combining photographs, found images, numerical data and maps; a flash-based user-navigable database of photographs; and a selected collection of past issues of Urban China. Together, these elements will fill the lobby gallery, exploding the magazine's radical worldview off its pages and into the physical space of the New Museum.

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from February 11, 2009 to March 22, 2009

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Urban China

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