Instead, it is a platform to further develop and exchange ideas with and about the community and its history. Remember, this is not a white box exhibition. We will provide detailed introduction to these programs in future releases. (3) Public Programs will be offered every week of the exhibition. They have authorized the P+V to display these private collections during the 2017 Biennale, giving us insight into how missionary and Hakka lives intersected and transformed each other. Even after returning to Switzerland, their children not only fondly remembered Hakka culture, but also saved the domestic items that their parents had used in China-teapots, bookshelves, and paintings.Ī witness to this history, the Longhua P+V Gallery has been entrusted with the task of exploring Chinese and Western relations in a new era, and the P+V Historical Association has met with with missionaries’ descendants in Switzerland and Germany to understand their lives while in China. The Basel Mission established churches, schools, and hospitals, living in Hakka communities during the country’s most tumultuous century. (2) Mutual Gaze: The Longheu Artifacts International Exhibition explores the shifting meaning of home and homemaking from the perspective of the over 200 missionaries who came to Guangdong’s Hakka region from Basel, Switzerland. Invited artists include: Katharina Sommer (Germany), Fang Hui, Liang Meiping (Hong Kong), YaYa Playback Theater, Cai Yinan, and Dong Jie. The works of art are invited by local artists from Germany, Hong Kong and Shenzhen to develop the theme of “migrations.” Through these artworks, we activate corporeal and sense memories, exploring the presences and absences that define the migrant condition. The curatorial team has commissioned artists from public space of Langkou Village. (1) The Home is Faraway Art Exhibition presents the public with five original artworks and performance at Langkou Village. The 2017 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture comprises three sections: commissioned artworks, an exhibition of historical artifacts, and public programs. What connects the migrations of Hakka peasants, Swiss missionaries, and recent migrants to Shenzhen? What irreducible differences define us? Exploring the meaning of “migration” at the Longheu P+V Gallery in Dalang gives us an opportunity to encounter the south again. We take root, we adapt, we create, and redefine “local” cultures. Since Reform and Opening began in 1980, tens of millions to migrants from the Chinese interior have come to Shenzhen, pursuing their dreams even as they build the city.Īs people have spread across the world, we have lost homelands and remade them elsewhere, but they are not the same. In the late 19th century, Western missionaries brought modern education to Longhua and other Hakka districts, catalyzing an exchange of Chinese and Western cultures. Home and elsewhere are the lodestars of every life, pulling us in multiple directions, enriching and muddling the waters of identity.įrom the Song through the Qing Dynasties, Hakka people migrated from the central plains to southeastern China, each generation of migrants bringing their own customs, language, and etiquette. Everyone has a reason for coming and reasons for staying. Shenzhen is a migrant city, its history of migrations even deeper than expected. Migrations–Home and Elsewhere: Rediscovering Hakka History and Chinese-Western Cultural Exchange
Elsewhere, I tell them I’m from Shenzhen.”-Lei Sheng “When people in Shenzhen ask me where I’m from, I say Wuhan. “Even though I’ve lived in Shenzhen for over twenty years and married as so-called ‘Old Shenzhener,’ nevertheless nobody every considers me to be from Shenzhen.”-Mary Ann O’Donnell When the other tourists talked about where they were from, many said, ‘Shenzhen.’ Their Yunnan accented Mandarin was proud and hinted at something the rest of us didn’t understand.”-Zhang Kaiqin
Yet every time people talk about hometowns, I say that I’m from the Northeast. “My father is from the Northeast, but I was born in Shenzhen and haven’t ever been back. Our answers map not only our past, but also complicated human emotions. “Where’s your hometown” is a common conversation gambit in Shenzhen. The founding of the school and Hakka history are our point of departure for rethinking what it means to be an immigrant. Mary Ann O’Donnell in collaboration with Handshake 302 and the P+V Gallery History Association. The theme of the sub-venue is: Migrations-Home and Elsewhere, Rediscovering Hakka History and Chinese-Western Cultural Exchange. The main venue will be at Nantou Ancient City. From December 2017 through February 2018, the P+V Gallery will be the site of the Longhua (Dalang) sub-venue of the 2017 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture.
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