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Tangent Experiments
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Duration
2024.11.19-12.25 10:00-18:00 (Mon.-Sun.)
Venue
TC101 SPACE, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2001 Longxiang Boulevard, Longgang District, Shenzhen
Organizer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Hosted by
University Arts Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Partners
University Supporting Departments
Library, School of Medicine, Futian Biomedical Innovation Research and Development Center, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Polymer Materials, Advanced Biometrics Research Center, Communications and Public Relations Office, Buildings and Facilities Management Office, Campus Development Office, Administrative Services Office, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Office, AVIC Property Management, Dilun Poetry Club
Exhibition Section
Alan BOGANA × Advanced Biometrics Research Center
Ke PENG × School of Medicine, Futian Biomedical Innovation Research and Development Center, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Polymer Materials
The 25th Artist-in-Residence SHEN Shaomin Programme "Everyone is an Artist"
Keywords of the Greater Bay Area
* In Alphabetical Order
Participants
Alan BOGANA, JIANG Suxuan, LIN Xinyi, Ke PENG, SHEN Shaomin, WU Jianru, WU Zifeng
Credits
Artanim, CHEN Binglin, Shicheng DAI, Di FANG, Flavia GHISALBERTI, Miao JIANG, LI Chen,
LIU Heli, Patrick NEDEL, QIAO Zhilong, Zhicheng XIAO, XU Limin, Ziqing YE, ZHANG Dapeng, Evan ZHANG
Foreword
During the 4th Culture & Arts Festival, TC101 SPACE has been transformed into a site focused on the emerging. The exhibited content here is not finished artworks, but rather proposals, plans, ideas, ongoing research, meandering thoughts and experiments.
The university campus is a natural incubation ground for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, and within TC101 SPACE, we present three different types of interdisciplinary experiments, contributed by researchers, artists, and faculty-student collaborations.
Keywords of the Greater Bay Area is an imaginative writing experiment initiated by researcher WU Jianru exploring the concept of the Greater Bay Area. It is a growing glossary that addresses the tension between localised knowledge production and the acceleration of technology. This long-term practice involves writers from different disciplinary backgrounds. Within the TC101 SPACE, this keyword list also revolves around concepts emerging from the Tangent Media main exhibition and invites new contributions.
Building on the curatorial stance of Tangent Media—which focuses on the movement of the observation point itself rather than the conclusions—two invited artists, Alan BOGANA and Ke PENG, respectively collaborated with different research institutions at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, over the summer. Alan BOGANA collaborated with the Advanced Biometrics Research Center, while Ke PENG collaborated with the School of Medicine, the Futian Biomedical Innovation Research and Development Center, and the Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Polymer Materials. Acting as observers guided by curiosity, they created pieces that navigate the visible and the invisible, and between theories and experiments, completing their respective creative puzzles.
In addition, the workshop results from campus resident artist SHEN Shaomin’s workshops are also iterated and displayed here. The participating students come from various programmes, and these projects themselves are the co-created products of interdisciplinary collaboration between teachers and students.
As a working method, the value of the “probe/tangent” perhaps lies in the freedom of its shifting points of contact and the way it constructs grand visions from minute details. As a methodology, it constantly suggests that the surrounding things are not in its fullness, yet to take shape, are still germinating, full of potential, and open to integration.
Curator's Biography

Iris LONG
Iris LONG is an independent curator, writer, and amateur radio operator. She's also a 2022–2023 Berggruen Fellow and a Swissnex Fellow with her research focused on megastructures of science and technology in China. She has curated or co-curated exhibitions around art, science, and technology, such as "Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa" (Hyundai Blue Prize), "Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse" (PSA Emerging Curators Project), the third Today Art Museum "Future of Today" Biennial, the art & tech sector of the inaugural Beijing Art Biennial, "Earth Heat Flow: the Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time," the inaugural exhibition for Chinese National Astronomy, "Cosmological Elements," "Cosmos Archaeology" (Shanghai Astronomy Museum), and "The Larva of Time" (Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai).
Iris's research has been presented in "Space in Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space" (Warburg Institute), UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, "Art and Artificial Intelligence" (Open Conference, ZKM), "Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (ISCMA)" (Hong Kong), Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (London), ISEA and so on. She teaches part-time at Central Saint Martins and initiated the first residence programme focusing on astronomy and astrophysics in China (Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University). In 2021, she initialised "Port: Under the Cloud", a long-term research and curatorial project on the infrastructures of science and technology in China.
More info: irislong.xyz
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