Perhaps no image is richer and more attuned to the symptoms of modernity than that of angels.

I want to discuss issues related to the topic of "locality" in a divergent way by sharing these three stories, which are not strictly interconnected. For instance, can we extract a new way of perceiving time and space from "locality"? Can "locality" only be included as a specificity in a more general context? …

To understand Shanghai in the late Qing period, it is necessary to enter the worlds of ideas and knowledge as well as the worlds of sentiments and imagination. In that lies the significance of fiction.

I will play the role of a courtesan who will host a tea party at the house of pleasure, to which you are all invited. Referencing my own experience in Shanghai, I shall call for the financial ghosts in The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai.

Vortex is a long-term project. We will update the content of performance lectures by artists and talks by experts both on- and offline. Following the fundamental approach of connecting local practice, theories, and context, we hope that this nonstandard art venue will become a place of torrents, flux, and confluence.

Macalline Art Center is proud to present solo exhibition “From South to North” for Chinese artist Tong Wenmin.

“From South to North” is the first presentation of a series of performance projects by the same name that Tong Wenmin has recently initiated.

Macalline Art Center is proud to present solo exhibition: “We Are All Mothers” for Chinese-American artist Patty Chang.

“We Are All Mothers” is Patty Chang’s first institutional solo show in China.

By connecting the material textures of different mediums, Shao Chun awakens subtle observations and intimate impulses within seemingly familiar experiential memories.