2024 RE-CREATE Residency Art Season

The Super Grid modular system is designed and customized by Cross Collaborative in collaboration
with A4 Residency Art Center, in response to its 2024 theme of “Sustainability” in 2024.
By flexibly extending and combining in the space, Super Grid creates a variety of exhibition forms, and at the same time presents a wealth of public life styles, constituting a unique “collage of life”.

No man is an island.Installation of a “Tablescape” with wood fired ceramics made of clay dug out of Luxelakes and Dujiangyan’s ground. The ceramic are covered with glazes made with local tree’s ashes: pine, apple and lychee. During the creation process, the artist conducted in-depth interviews with local experts, including geologists, urban planners, and water resource specialists.

Birdsong Radio, originated in April 2022, is a sustainable public art co-creation project initiated by artist Liu Yi. He collects bird song recordings from the public through social media and shares them with the public. While “discovering and sharing the beauty that exists around us”, it also brings physical and mental healing and emotional resonance to everyone.
Neighbors is like a poem about the intimate relationship between people, birds and nature. Each bird is no longer just a static sculpture, but a living carrier of emotions, with different shapes outlining the harmony of this colorful home on earth.

Luxelakes 2054 — Imagine a Future Where AI Agents.From the perspective of an artificial intelligence simulator, the audience is invited to create new variants of these animals, fungi and plants, flying with these species as well as with robots. Forming an ever-changing ecosystem. Foothill Lake 2054 responds to the trend of technology-assisted solutions by constructing a narrative of non-computable systems under extreme control – what do we optimize and what do we end up ignoring? The project aims to examine our tendency to simplify complex ecosystems by viewing nature as a repairable system.

Dots on a Table, a two-week residency season in which the artist invites viewers to participate in a collaborative painting project. During this time, a large table installation will serve as the canvas on which viewers will be guided to draw tiny dots using brushes and paint. As the collective work progresses each day, the surface of this artwork will gradually fill in and take on new shapes. The project aims to cultivate an energy and experience of co-creation. Walking along the path, you see a huge white table in the middle of the lawn… is this the world of Giant Country? Dotting and painting, you are slowly filled with color, your body becomes splotchy.

Fountain，Ren Han transforms the corner of this lakeside building into a black visual landscape. He covers two facades of the building with black panels and, using his “destructive drawing” technique, carves away the surface to reveal a scene of cascading water intertwined with the building’s framework.In Chinese feng shui, water symbolizes wealth, and its fluidity and transience also reflect the traits of consumer culture. The artist collages digital images, presenting them in a solidified, rough form to establish multiple contrasts—between nature and artifice, destruction and creation, the sublime and consumerism—initiating a dialogue on humanity, nature, and contemporary culture.

In Time and Boats, old boats can be seen as fragments of the past left behind in the fast-changing flow of time in the city, and sunken boats may eventually disappear into the water. The mirrors on the boat reflect the light, the landscape, and the viewer, reflecting the “now” and at the same time being eroded by the “now”. The artist tries to focus on the things that become invisible in this context and to reflect on these issues through the creation of his works.

Respire is a kinetic sculpture that connects the elements of fire, water, and air demonstrating environmental interconnectedness. Visitors are invited to engage directly with and transmit real-time global air quality data, transforming the installation into a living, responsive and breathing object.

Display the phrase “Another Kind of Life” in a manner that complements the visual form of each spatial area. This approach invites viewers to consider various interpretations: that this “other life” might be an accident, a chance encounter, or something elusive and fleeting. It may be different each time, may be difficult to find, or one may be immersed within it but never realized.

Moonment is an ongoing touring installation project that aims to showcase along waters. Inspired by a
Chinese ancient poem “海上生明月，天涯共此时” by Tang poet Zhang Jiuling, this work describes a surreal and poetic night-sea view that resonates with people of different locations. Aluminum sheets and programmed mechanical sets create moving percussive environment of waves.

Connections and Glimmers. This artwork is based on Pu Yun’s reflections on the interplay between art and community, stemming from his involvement with a local community in Chengdu, China. Branches serve as the skeletal framework of the structure, bound together by plaster. The inherent instability of both materials shows the fragility of society. Inside space, bulbs serve as a metaphor for the subtle yet far-reaching influence of art on society.

The Tongur, which is a work of art and a waste product of the knowledge economy. A beautiful piece of paper that contains a wealth of knowledge and research, yet is completely incomprehensible. It is the artist’s reflection on the creative process, education, language and the relationship between man and nature.

The Memory Palace is a social-ecological art practice that invites the public to tell stories or share information about trees. It is a creativity-led social exploration of how to co-create a good life for individual and collective well-being, exploring how we can live in harmony with the wider community of life.