Wu Mali

"Since 2009 curator Wu Mali and Bamboo Curtain Studio, helped the Zhu-Wei neighborhood to understand their Plum Tree Creek which has gone through a dramatic change. The first phase of the project is to raise pollution and water flow issues due to neglect. We used art as intervention for collaborative potential between professionals, the community, the public sectors, via research and dialogue, to lead residents to reacquainted with their environment, and to reclaim the ownership over their natural resources.

A series of cultural actions from over 60 local and international artists, curators, professionals and NGOs intersected multiple stakeholders. we have now reached more than 80,000 participants. After receiving many local and global recognition as prototype of eco-art action, local residents, government and schools realize the value of their local history, the compromised ecology and the pressure from over-development.
After ten years, we have accumulated much data. We now are planning: “Plum Tree Creek School”, and are seeking funding and new collaborators, to use art as catalyst via fun participatory projects, to attract wider sections of the community to jointly be a voice for change in their environment.

We bring artists to lead this journey, using the power of artist as a social sculptor, molding a new value system via mutual learning and mutual exchange. We hope to lead Zhu Wei towards best practice of a livable city that integrates art as the creative platform for embedding sustainable living habits.

Through our interactive “School” we seek art and artists are agent of change, making different models of connectivity to validate reciprocal dependency that keep a system alive.Art can bring change: made from the public, by the public, for the public."… (altro)