Elliott’s Note: sorry this liveblog post is a bit pointilistic but I hope it will give you a sense of the general discussion of this speech.
Next speech is from OU Ning. He was publisher of New Masses, independent music magazine, 1994-1995.
The stuff that some of our presenters are using are generating much debate on ZSS. Ou Ning on MacBook. u-theque.org.cn already shown in the screen. Wifi is good at venue but GPRS petering out. Some people don’t very much like Ning’s conversation. Red Bull recommended on ZSS. Great graphics, though.
OU Ning is now showing getitlouder.com (大聲)
A video stream is now available at http://zuosa.net/5jvv.u
Very Jing-ish: mentions The Da Zhan Lan Project (www.dazhanlan-project.org). Note that Beijing pronounces it “Dashilar”. Links once again from Ning’s prezo (click and discover):
www.u-theque.org.cn
www.getitlouder.com
www.dazhanlan-project.org
Mentions Meishi Street (煤市街), now a 2 to 3-lane one-way street just east of Front Gate Avenue, Beijing. Destruction of Meishi Street chronicled at: http://meishijie117.blog.sohu.com. (David Feng: It makes me guilty when I drive on Meishi Street.) Meishi Street is now a north-to-south only street which “came to be” only after buildings were torn down.
Citizen journalism it seemed to be; chronicles the whole “death and destruction”. Oh the horrors of a Jing 拆… #
New projects include the Shao Foundation:
http://www.shaofoundation.org.cn, in BJ and SH.
Fans are now on; the masses grumble and are in shock. It does feel cool, though… better than the swingy ones on Line 5.
City Mobilization project mentioned — Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2009
Thank you Ou Ning. Questions are about to begin.
ZSS: Ou Ning: indie music, AV, expression, public space (the Web gave us a public space).
