Teenagers VS Office
(2023)Co-curated with Loren Yuehan Wang and Xiran Tan
April 30th, 2023, Boger Hall, Middletown, CTCo-sponsored by Feminist, gender, sexuality studies, Center for Humanities, East Asian Studies, and Anthropology Department at Wesleyan University
Press Release:
“Migrant/Queer Youth Space in Shanghai Questions What Education Actually Means Outside of Institutional Structures”, By Xiran Tan
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We all know what kind of education we don’t want, but what kind of education do we want?”Yuqing, the initiator of Temporary Park and a queer Chinese sculptor, opened with this question I was too afraid to ask. Yuqing, along with their fellow artist Yufan, visited Wesleyan on Sunday, April 30th, to hold a presentation and discussion on their journey with Temporary Park, titled “Teenagers vs. Office: Sculpting Together a Precious and Precarious Learning Space.”
As Yuqing presented, “Temporary Park is a community space of floating(migrant)/queer youths and people in the outskirts of Shanghai. Using the scale of everyday life, we create our mutual-aid network in the urban fringe, unfolding more possibilities of the public sphere.”
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