Cao Chang Mo

The idea is to collect sand from around Cao Chang Di village and streets and fill up one of the spaces at a gallery to make a sand dune. (Another option would also be to gather up sand and place it at the front of the gallery.) For this installation, we would like to get some workers to help to collect up sand, showing the desertification of Beijing as a slow process, but not so didactic in exhibition.

Here is visually what we are thinking, but indoors or externall at the front of a space.

It will both help the city of cao chang di, look at this concept of desertification as already arriving and question the identity of artist as shifting from self to community.

Extensions

 * Hire up workers to sweep up sand
 * Print t-shirts for all workers to wear to help sweep up
 * Record video and images of work gathering sand
 * post-show sand dune sampling, capturing, bottling, relocation, selling sand in a bottle