good bye shanghai

Shanghai was the right place to bring the CCA course to an end, lots of good food and swanky bars on the bund for us to blow money on expensive drinks. Of course, it is shanghai so there is plenty of attitude that comes with this (including the bar rouge 100 rmb cover to just enter the bar) and yet we managed to enjoy ourselves at Bund 6 and the stairway up to the bar provided a super cool photo op...reminds one of ai weiwei, no?




anyway, I left shanghai yesterday and have arrived in Guangzhou where I am working on my Fulbright research-meeting with the Guangdong Museum of Art and a few other art spaces. I have been here a few times, but usually only to see family or to see the triennial so I am looking forward to meeting some more people and artists, etc. Today I will go to see a new space opened by Chen Tong, then to Vitamin Creative Space and then to visit some artists studios.