LONG-TERM PROJECTS
Ice Blueprint (2024–ongoing)
Ice Blueprint is a long-term interdisciplinary research and artistic practice project that began in 2024. Taking ice as its central motif, the project unfolds through international residencies, research, experimentation, and artistic production. The project manifests through a range of outputs, including multi-material sculptures and installations, essay-films, publications, as well as both online and physical exhibitions.
Ice Blueprint seeks to challenge and reimagine the visual narratives constructed between natural materials—specifically ice—and artificial landscapes, establishing a sustainable and enduring trajectory of research and practice.
The 2024–2025 phase of the project focuses on experimenting with spatial and conceptual interventions in both physical and digital realms, examining how constructed environments intersect with fluid identities. The project uses Harbin’s iconic cultural form—ice sculpture—as both visual language and a point of origin, exploring how the materiality of ice reflects the complexities of globalization, cross-cultural hybridity, and diasporic subjectivity. Explores how multinationalism and cultural hybridity continue to leave imprints on both planetary and human histories. It also considers how ice can serve as a witness to the entangled layers of history and culture.
Crucially, Ice Blueprint empowers a multi-sited ethnographic methodology across various international cities, aiming to bridge geopolitical and cultural gaps. It aspires to become a connective thread across regions, encompassing research and representation related to cultural heritage, history, contemporary technology, and spatial imagination on both local and global scales.
《冰蓝图》是一个长期的跨学科研究与艺术实践项目，始于2024年。以冰为核心意象，该项目通过国际驻地、研究、实验以及艺术创作逐步展开。项目成果涵盖多种形式，包括多材料雕塑与装置、论文影片、出版物，以及线上和线下展览。
《冰蓝图》旨在挑战并重新构想自然材料——尤其是冰——与人工景观之间建构的视觉叙事，为研究与实践建立一个可持续且持久的发展轨迹。
2024–2025阶段的项目重点是在物理与数字领域进行空间和概念干预的实验，探讨建构环境与流动身份之间的交汇关系。项目以哈尔滨标志性的文化形式——冰雕——作为视觉语言与起点，探索冰的物质性如何反映全球化、跨文化混合性以及侨民主体性的复杂性。同时，项目考察多国主义与文化混合性如何持续在地球及人类历史中留下痕迹，也思考冰如何成为历史与文化纠缠层面的见证者。
关键的是，《冰蓝图》采用多地点民族志研究方法，遍及多个国际城市，旨在弥合地缘政治与文化差距。项目希望成为不同区域间的连接纽带，涵盖与文化遗产、历史、当代技术及空间想象相关的研究与呈现，兼顾本地与全球视野。
