Xiamen
Highlights
walk with me
‘walk with me’ is an interactive walking artwork involving one-to-one guided walks from local kiosks to iconic city landmarks in locations including Beijing, Cologne, Shanghai, Xiamen, Taidong, and Berlin. Participants engage with predetermined routes subdivided into 15 segments, each with prompts encouraging reflection and written responses collected in the archive ‘Composition of the Ordinary’.
Articles elsewhere
Quick-Fix Tour of Shapowei: A New Tour
After a bit of a pause, I am back into making tours. Tomorrow I will give a tour of the Shapowei neighborhood looking at the phenomenon of quick-fixes or improvised repairs. The tour will not only investigate them and look at the stories they can tell,...
The Subtle Allure of Getting Lost in Jimei
Here we are at the start of our Way-Losing tour of Jimei District, Xiamen. Previously, I have always been cast in the role of the visiting tour guide who tries to get the locals lost. This time round there were some other visitors too, and none of us c...
Way-Losing – in Xiamen – 1st July
The 1st of July will bring us back on to the street and into the wilds of the city. This will be a very particular Way-Losing tour because the city of Xiamen in Southern China is undergoing a profound renovation ahead of the BRICS conference later this...
The 42 km Tour aka The Xiamen Marathon
The 2nd of January was a big day for me. Some months earlier I had signed up for the Xiamen Marathon. I followed the instructions, arrived at 7.15 AM, only to be told I could not participate because I had not collected my race number. A trying-to-be-he...