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JOJO CHEUNG


> My early years were spent in a small village yard in Shanxi, China with my
> grandparents, who were very poor peasants. They planted a a pomegranate tree
> because I liked pomegranate. They have died, but the tree is still alive and
> wild. When I found myself studying contemporary art in California and
> Cambridge when I was in my 20s, I felt impossible to communicate the world and
> the work I was in now to my earliest self and its community. My art since then
> has always been various attempt to do this impossible communication, but to
> other people and communities.


Work
Artistic Research & Practice
Grassroots
Community & Web3
Selected Essays/Presentations
Key Words
Open Source Art
Open Source Socially Engaged Art
706
Other Interests
Contact


WORK





ARTISTIC RESEARCH & PRACTICE


Founder , SOCIAL PRACTICE ART WIKI (2017-) An attempt to build a
Chinese-language database of radical performance social art projects that the
public can DIY in their everyday life with zero cost and zero professional
background. Also a digital garden for me to learn in public and research in
public. https://youcanmake.art

Co-Founder & Teacher, Social Practice Art Online Learning Community (2022-) The
only Chinese-language online course on social practice art. Hundreds of students
have taken the course. Early students were mostly urban young people, and later
included a small number of former factory workers, middle school drop-outs, and
rural housewives. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fr8K7Z3zMMMZ2LroaeXmTw

Founder, Dali Open Source House (2023-) Free residency and public programs for
for open source art and technology contributors https://DaliOpen.com

Co-Founder, TST Diving Platform (2017-2021) A platform for non-artists to start
performance and public art experiments. https://tst.commotion.page/

Researcher, HB Station Contemporary Art Center (2018-19)

Core Contributor, Soeng Joeng Toi, a commune/infoshop (2017-19)

Co-organizer, UABB Biennale official public programs (2017)


Individual and group participation in exhibitions include V&A Shenzhen Design
Museum, Shanghai Biennale, 807 Community Space Shenzhen, , Guangzhou Fei Art
Museum, UABB, Amsterdam Framer Framed , Tai Kwun Museum of Art , Frankfurt
SYNNIKA , Beijing Gallery Weekend, Beijing 798 Goethe-Institut, etc.
Participation in public art projects include "Local Play: Forum Theater",
"Temporary Art Community", "Pearl River Delta: Residents!", "Society of One",
etc.

Media coverage include City Pictorial, Shenzhen Special Zone News, BIE (VICE
China), Phoenix Weekly. Writings and translation works have been published in
Art World, ICA Center for Contemporary Art (NYU Shanghai), National Geographic,
The Paper (Pengpai), AAWW, and some independent art publications.




GRASSROOTS


Co-Founder, ShanzhaiMFA (”Fake Art School”) (2023-) A small edupunk institution
with two tiny campuses with classrooms and dorms in semi-rural Dali and
Chaoshan, China. Inspired by Byung-Chul Han’s Shanzhai, Rancière’s The Ignorant
Schoolmaster and Proletarian Nights. Originality is banned, creativity is
banned, only Shanzhai (copycat) is allowed. Professionals are also banned, our
teachers are amateurs, fortune tellers, Chaozhou braised goose cooks, local
Buddhist nuns, Meituan delivery man, village mothers, and sometimes street
weirdos. We learn conceptual writing by shouting on megaphone like a protest, we
make performance art as routine morning workouts, we do non-fiction journalism
through theatrical re-enactment, we touch each other’s bodies by joining
Mosuo/Naxi rituals and Teochew opera and Yingge dance, we do social theory by
writing on the wall on the streets, and sometimes we dance about architecture
like we write about art. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/gniCKwCf9puBE9sBVW3VfA

Co-Organizer, 1001 Small Towns - an online event series (Digital Palace of
Culture) Documented cultural practitioners outside the urban middle class
practices. Dali+ is a co-living community consisting of three buildings in Dali,
with a Web3 background. I also served as a board member for Dali+.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/76766MOhC6qz1di6EGYXRQ

Co-Founder, ChaoCoop (2020-22) A tiny Chaoshan rural co-operative of village
mothers that make clothes production and sometimes theatrical video art
production. https://coop.commotion.page/
https://synnika.space/events/mothers-ultra




COMMUNITY & WEB3


Core Contributor, 706 Have been active for four years. Have also been holding
open source art and technology workshops and other talks in 706 Dali, DAO SPACE,
Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Chiang Mai.

Co-builder & Maintainer, 706 Open Source Event Organization Toolkits The wiki
helps community members and the general public to organize public space events
to build a more active civic society wiki.706er.com (archived, merged into the
next project)

Co-builder & Maintainer, 706 Online Collaboration Platform on Notion 706
consists of thousands of smaller groups and is sometimes seen as a major
“off-chain DAO” in the Sinophone world. As a grass-root organization with a
unique structure that is neither a company nor an NGO, it also faces enormous
problems in governance, funding, interpersonal dynamics, and public goods
output. 706community.notion.site

Teacher, 706 Notion Online Course

Contributor, Public Lab 2018 Annual Barnraising Public Lab is an open source
hardware & DIY civic science community




SELECTED ESSAYS/PRESENTATIONS


From Socially Engaged Art to Socially Initiated Art @ Asia Art Archive, Hong
Kong

If Society is Programming Us, How Do We Program Society: Avant-Garde Art Actions
& AI @ WAMO 2023, Chiang Mai, a Web3 conference @ Artificial Intelligence
Hackathon, Shanghai, China Academy of Art

DIY Wiki and Social Programming @ Annual Conference of Network Society, China
Academy of Art

diy wiki and social programming.pdf
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Against Projects

From Performance Art as Rituals to Rituals as Social Practice: The First 5000
Years




KEY WORDS



OPEN SOURCE ART



OPEN SOURCE SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART



706





OTHER INTERESTS


artistic research by non-artists and non-researchers

anthropology of childhood

ethnographic theory (e.g. HAU)

intentional communities, alternative family structures

anti-ocularcentrism


outsider art, grassroots street performance, conceptual poetry, avant-garde
theater, Fluxus

anti-secularism

porn & anti-porn

beautiful trouble




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