As anthropologist, as teacher, as translator, as photographer, and as dramaturge, I have sought alternative ways of inhabiting Shenzhen, the oldest and largest of China’s special economic zones.  In 1980, Chinese urban planners set out to design a city that met the criteria of an international city.  They also intended to build a city that would attract international investment.  Consequently, Shenzhen was built to be a space where Chinese and non-Chinese could come together.  Obviously, Shenzhen urban design presupposed that business would be the point of all this collaboration.  And yet non-economic values have also taken root in capitalist soil.   I create and contribute to projects that reconfigure such shared spaces, where our worlds mingle and collide, sometimes collapse, and often implode. 

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.

- English proverb