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GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island

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GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客


GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客





GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客





People all over the world today realize that a place with a poor ecological environment cannot be considered a pleasant place to live, even if it has high monetary incomes. Despite such a mentality, ecological conditions continue to decay.


Some urban administrative departments in the Pearl River Delta region have realized that, besides considering GDP, they first have to heal the damage caused by the urban development of the past decades. They should also restore ecological diversity and, in addition to urban landscaping, revive and preserve the declining numbers of species of flora and fauna. Since 2005, Shenzhen has set aside nearly half of its metropolitan area (900 square kilometers) as an ecological reserve. In addition to banning logging and allowing plants to recuperate and grow, many human and financial resources have been spent on planning and construction in order to catch up with the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. A decade later, by 2015, the number of plant species found in urban construction zones in Shenzhen had exceeded 1,700, surpassing Tokyo, Singapore, and Los Angeles (1,300 species), and even equaling London—a city regarded as the world’s top urban environment. Shenzhen’s Xianhu Botanical Garden now houses more than 10,000 species, although it has not yet reached the number of species of the Royal Botanical Gardens in London.


While many Shenzhen experts and scholars enjoy the fresh air in a pleasant environment, they also realize that the overall population is highly qualified. I ask them what they think should be done if the ecological conditions in the vast areas outside of Shenzhen continue to deteriorate. They tell me they would feel discouraged and anxious. I sense the efforts of these experts and builders. Even if it is as if they have constructed an isolated island with thriving plants and flowers, their actions are still commendable.






GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客

Shenzhen Bay, 2020

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GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客

Shenzhen Mangrove nature reserve

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GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客


Shenzhen OCT Wetland

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GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客






GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客


Xu Tan, born in China, 1957. Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (1989), he currently lives in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and New Jersey. He joined Guangzhou artist group Big Tail Elephant in 1993. He got the grant of Artist in residence of DAAD, Berlin (2004) and ACC, New York (2002). His works were shown at Location 1 Art Center, New York; YBCA, San Francisco; Berlin Biennial (2001);  Jakarta Biennale (2013); Gwangju Biennale (2002); Venice Biennale (2003 and 2009); Guangzhou Triennial (2002); Shanghai Biennale (2014); Sharjah Biennale (2015) among others.








GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客






GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客


The "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" is a new construction envisioned from a top-down perspective and territorial integration. It is a blueprint for a future urban development based on efficiency, speed, and mobility. What if we conceive the Greater Bay Area as an experiment, an imaginary experiment? On the one hand, there is the question of diversity. When we talk about smart cities, artificial intelligence, automation, ecological crisis, information security, the future of virtual reality, global trade, etc., where does this view of the future come from, and what determines it? On the other hand, a profound political, spatial, historical, and geographical significance is present in the Greater Bay Area. Is it possible to develop a different imagination based on the history and culture of the "Pearl River Delta-Greater Bay Area," meaning to consider a development departing from local knowledge production, negotiating with accelerating technologies, facilitating collaborations between art and other disciplines, and reshaping e the vision of institutions of art and technology? By exploring the diversity of technologies, human and non-human ecologies, and reproduction of social relations, might it be possible to reposition the  "Greater Bay Area" as a pioneering experiment of southern China's technological and cultural imagination beyond a mere economic zone?






GBA Keywords | An Isolated Island GBA Keywords region Shenzhen surpassing Tokyo Singapore Angeles species London 崇真艺客






The Greater Bay Area Keywords Project is an ever-expanding think tank. We have collected 31 keywords from scholars around the world to launch the first round of thought processes. The project is continuously open to submissions worldwide, and we look forward to writers engaging in critical imaginations on culture, geopolitics, and technology around these questions, as mentioned above. Each keyword is illustrated in 300 words in English (500 words in Chinese). Please get in touch with us via email before you submit your manuscript. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will be published in English and Chinese on the Media Lab’s official website. Please find us at medialab@timesmuseum.org









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