The Los Angeles Project opens at UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Outside of Hollywood, specific cultural connections between Los Angeles and Beijing have been lacking despite their imagined proximity as Pacific Rim cities. Los Angeles has long been conceived of as a “city of the future” in much the same way that urban development in China has unfolded against the backdrop of an implicit utopianism. As China’s creative scene matures into a multipolar terrain of geographies, contexts, and subjectivities, Los Angeles and its cultural topography become especially relevant to Beijing and its current position as the nation’s creative capital. e-flux/announcements/the-los-angeles-project/
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:00:01 +0000
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