人民廣場 第三期
People’s Square No. 3
鼓樓胡同 Gulou Hutongs

Description

胡同改造的悲剧仍在上演，那些愛享受胡同的人們當看到方家胡同的室外座位漸漸被一疊疊的磚取代的時候心裡有種說不出來的滋味。去年春天，住宅土地上改造成的一層商用空間全部關門。東城區的所有胡同裡，商戶的門窗全部用磚頭封死。在第三期《人民廣場》中，我們與研究北京胡同的禾木、鼓樓本地瓷阿G一起，解析眼下的胡同復光。這些觀點讓我們想去探索：原汁原味的胡同文化和社區是什麼？城市保護的意義是什麼？各種形式的城市復光究竟在服務誰？

Hutong tragedy strikes again. All the fun-loving folks in Beijing feel the heat as Fangjia Hutong’s outdoor seating is replaced with piles of bricks. Originally zoned as residential land, first-floor commercial spaces were forced to shut down last spring. Doors and windows were bricked up in hutongs all across Dongcheng. In People’s Square No. 3, we break down the hutong revitalization with Hemu, a seasoned researcher of Beijing’s hutongs, and AhG, a local Gulou G. Their insights help us explore: What does authentic hutong culture and community mean? What is worth preserving and whom are various forms of urban revitalization serving?

《人民廣場》是為在中國拆遷大潮中塵土飛揚的瓦礫堆里迷失自我、又渴望瞭解更多的風滾草和好奇貓所創辦的獨立雜誌。綜合了攝影、民族志以及藝術，這本雜誌是一張快照，記錄的瞬間講述著中國掠奪式的城市化進程，也是一次深潛，潛入了土地徵收後的廢墟現場。

People’s Square is a zine series created for all the wandering tumbleweeds and curious cats who have found themselves lost in the dusty rubble of Chinese demolition and were thirsty to know more. Comprising photography, ethnography and art, it is a snapshot of the transient moments that make up China’s rapacious urban development and a dive into the dumps of land expropriation.

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『絲瓜集團』是由一幫年輕的活躍細胞自發創建的團體, 我們通過研究城市變化進程去大膽創想中國的未來。成員們擅長通過視覺藝術、攝影、人類學、社區組織、電影和文學角度去創建多媒體趣味性項目。目的是擴大延展時下大眾定義的中國,並且給予年輕人更多空間去發掘自我與城市社會之間的微妙關係。我們的項目主要為中國年輕人和海外華裔解構分析難定義的」中華」.  特別在時下變化萬千的大環境下,對自我身份的不斷探索是絲瓜集團成員們迎接未來的最好方式.

Sponge Gourd Collective is a loofah for the future, a squad of green goons, a slimy surprise. We investigate urban transformation to explore Chinese futurities. With backgrounds in visual art, photography, anthropology, community organizing, film, and literature, we develop multimedia projects that broaden popular conceptions of China, to leave more room for the blurry spaces in between. Our projects deconstruct unstable meanings of Chineseness and speak to Chinese youth and members of the global Chinese diaspora. Self-searching is a seed that sprouted this collective; as rapid development calls for a fluid, flexible future, our conceptions of identity too must remain open to flux.