As James Deertz writes in In Small Things Forgotten, archeology requires studying the lives of ordinary people from small, everyday objects. “The Petrification of Everyday Objects” is a fictional archeological site reflecting the lives of ordinary people organized by Plant South Salesroom. Beginning with the natural petrification of trees, the workshop envisions an urban “rock hunt.” Participants will build a “Rock Shop” with the fossils of everyday objects that they made and share their observations on the temporal qualities of plants.
Language: Chinese
FREE and OPEN to the public. Registration required.
In conjunction with The Larva of Time, an exhibition with BAI Shunong, GUO Cheng, ZHANG Wei, and ZHANG Wenxin, curated by Iris Long.
The Larva of Time is an interdisciplinary curatorial and research project, realized as part of the “Creative Futures” initiative at the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University and exhibited in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) at NYU Shanghai.
