河的第三岸
The Third Bank of River
河流的形成已经不再自然，它在现代化发展中成为了一个人为干预的过程，其过程是运用不同的技术手段实现的：例如水坝、河岸、防洪工程这些改造河流形态的基础设施，将其固定在特定的形态和位置，并成为一种资源可供人类利用；同时，历经迭代的信息技术，例如测绘技术、地图制图、遥感卫星等，也在知识生产和视觉表现上固化了我们对于河流的认知与想象。
The formation of a river is not natural anymore; it becomes a process of human intervention in the modernity, which is realized by using different technical means: such as Dams, man-constructed riverbanks, flood control projects, the infrastructure of transforming river form, fixing it into a specific shape and position for a resource for human utilization; At the same time, the iterated information technology, such as surveying and mapping technology, remote sensing satellite, etc., has also solidified our cognition and imagination of rivers in knowledge production and visual representation.
Our practice means to re-examine the human intervention to the river, inviting more people to rethink of the relationship between the people and water.
001 冲突对话 · 三峡和移动的政治生态
Conflictual Dialogue · The Three Gorges and the Political Ecology of Mobility
以回应水利工程与政治化生态的复杂性，我们选择以公共的冲突式对话作为打开更多调查的开端，和公众一起寻找线索。我们将三峡的纪录片作为对话的起点，研究报告和其他与水利工程相关的艺术实践等素材作为延伸材料。材料随后在对话中被激活，又持续生发出更多的讨论。
在对话的现场，有三峽移民的亲历者，水利工程师，水利电力投资者，河流生态调研者，技术批判研究者，有做乡村建设，生态艺术，历史研究以及更多对于三峽抱有兴趣的个体。
我们围绕在一张巨大的长江河景遥感地图上，河流、植被、土壤上都被打上了测绘用的表格，如同自上而下的一次精准规划。在这规划的视角上，已不复存在的峡江旧照、大坝的技术想象、发电轮、泄洪景观、景点门票等等图像一一占据了网格。在这次对话中，图像及其事物在谈话中不断被移动、被放置，又在新的思考中继续悬浮，构成了新的权力图景。
In response to the complexity of water engineering and politicized ecology, we chose to open up more investigations with a public conflict-like dialogue, looking for clues with the public. We use documentaries on the Three Gorges as a starting point for dialogue, and materials such as research reports and other artistic practices related to water projects as extension materials. The material is then activated in the conversation, which continues to generate more discussion.
At the scene of the dialogue, there are witnesses of the Three Gorges migrants, hydraulic engineers, hydraulic power investors, river ecological researchers, technology critics, rural construction, ecological art, historical research and many more interested in the Three Gorges individuals.
We are surrounded by a huge remote sensing map of the Yangtze River landscape, and the river, vegetation and soil are all marked with mapping tables, like a precise plan from the top down. In the perspective of this plan, the old photos of the river that no longer exist, the technical imagination of the dam, the power generation wheel, the flood discharge landscape, the scenic spot tickets, etc., occupy the grid one by one. In this dialogue, the image and its objects are constantly moved and placed in the conversation, and continue to levitate in the new thinking, constituting a new power picture.
冲突对话 · 三峡和移动的政治生态，综合材料，摄影，2024
Conflictual Dialogue · The Three Gorges and the Political Ecology of Mobility, Composite Materials, Photograph, 2024
002 夜走巡渠 Night Walk Along the Sewers
冲突对话的结束让我们顺着更多在对谈中出现的线索展开田野，可水利工程对城市中生活的人们似乎依旧是一个遥远的、不可感的抽象图景。
我们将注意力转换到了城市中遍布的是水利工程的循环部分之一 —— 地下管网。在曾经农田密布的肖家河旁，我们邀请了十位参与者一同寻找在混凝土、电线杆和城市植被之下的地下水管道。通过沿河的行走、对上游水库的讨论以及在大街上对水管进行的重新绘制，我们借此将城市用水的上游和末梢重叠，探讨其中不可见的权力关系。
The end of the conflict dialogue lets us follow more clues in the dialogue to open the field, but the water conservancy project still seems to be a distant, incomprehensible abstract picture for people living in the city.
We turn our attention to one of the recurring parts of water engineering throughout the city -- the underground pipeline network.
Along the Xiaojia River, once covered with farmland, we invited ten participants to search for underground water pipes beneath concrete, electric poles, and urban vegetation. By walking along the river, discussing the upstream reservoir, and redrawing the water pipes on the street, we overlap the upstream and the end of the urban water use and explore the invisible power relationship.
夜走巡渠现场
During the walking tour
夜走巡渠地图，拼贴，2024
Night Walk Along the Canal Map, collage, 2024
003 顺水而上 ·水利工程调查
Up the river, investigating Dam, Field Research Notes, 2024
田野调研笔记，2024
Field Notes