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1 1 寰 9 格 3 核 3: THE SHANGHAI PROJECTION SYSTEM URBAN HUMANITIES INITIATIVE Spring 2015 University of California, Los Angeles PROJECT TEAM Jonathan Banfill Fang-Ru Lin Cameron Robertson SPRING STUDIO NOW SHANGHAI/ 闹海

Narrative Film During a trip to Shanghai, student teams captured original

1 寰 9 格 3 核 3 Video, 16:12 minutes 1933: The Shanghai Projector is an

of its most iconic buildings, the former slaughterhouse that is now 1933 老场坊.

to render different fragmented pieces of the city images, memories, historical

film projector takes singular images and sutures them together into movement.

filmmakers, who appear within the film as figures being projected upon.

intertwine within 1933, using the different architectural features of the

At different points the projected-upon spectators reappear, emerging out of a

The final images gesture towards an uncertain future for the building and city,

concluding, The memory of the city will be projected into the city of the

2 Narrative Film During a trip to Shanghai, student teams captured original footage and created a narrative related to their project site. 1 寰 9 格 3 核 3 Video, 16:12 minutes 1933: The Shanghai Projector is an investigation into the history and memory of Shanghai through the lens of one of its most iconic buildings, the former slaughterhouse that is now 1933 老场坊. The film imagines the building acting as a kind of magical machine that is able to render different fragmented pieces of the city images, memories, historical moments, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, and so on into something new, just as a film projector takes singular images and sutures them together into movement. Additionally, it explores the building s effect upon the subjectivity of the filmmakers, who appear within the film as figures being projected upon. Throughout, the narrator continues ruminating on how the memory and history intertwine within 1933, using the different architectural features of the building to discuss deeper levels of meaning. At different points the projected-upon spectators reappear, emerging out of a multi-colored light wheel to observe. The final images gesture towards an uncertain future for the building and city, with distant figures moving along a foggy ocean shore and the narrator concluding, The memory of the city will be projected into the city of the future. Scenes from 1 寰 9 格 3 核 3 The prologue opens up into the film proper, which coalesces around various sequences showing the building and the city, as well as narratives of different people that were encountered within.

The Past, the Present, and the Now To complement cinematic representations project teams created densely rendered spatial diagrams and maps. 1寰9格3核3: THE SHANGHAI PROJECTION SYSTEM 1933: Is it a year?

寰 : Outside, Periphery; the edge of the universe 小时代 Shallow popular movie; also Robert s favorite 海伦路 Subway station, takes you to 1933 格 Voids around a center, architecture itself : Delta, a

Bridges; 26 ramps in all 苏丹: A striking artist; the lady in the blue hat 新海派 : Neo-Haipai culture; it s forming around us 中心圆 Atrium; we watched Delta play guitar here 路易斯康 : An architect; forgotten

空中舞台 Air Stage; home of weddings, lavish corporate stuff 幻 : Unreal, imaginary, illusory 异托邦 : We were never sure if it was or wasn t 旋梯 Spiral Staircases; don t get dizzy!

3 The Past, the Present, and the Now To complement cinematic representations project teams created densely rendered spatial diagrams and maps. 1寰9格3核3: THE SHANGHAI PROJECTION SYSTEM 1933: Is it a year? A place? A building? Or something else? 上海长城生化药品厂: Makers of communist medicine! 微剧场 : A smaller than small theater 老场坊 Old Factory; translated as Millfun... Huh? 寰 : Outside, Periphery; the edge of the universe 小时代 Shallow popular movie; also Robert s favorite 海伦路 Subway station, takes you to 1933 格 Voids around a center, architecture itself : Delta, a student from Guizhou; beautiful singer 伞形柱 Umbellate Columns; Cameron says there are many 核 The core: of an atomic reactor, of the city 黑洞弹 : An old man obsessed with black holes & bombs 廊桥 Covered Bridges; 26 ramps in all 苏丹: A striking artist; the lady in the blue hat 新海派 : Neo-Haipai culture; it s forming around us 中心圆 Atrium; we watched Delta play guitar here 路易斯康 : An architect; forgotten three days after his death 新-上海 Neo-Shanghai; like Akira? 牛道 Cattle Walkways; watch out for blood! 拆 Demolish; the destroyed history; also a cliché 魔都 : Another name for Shanghai; or was it Paris? 空中舞台 Air Stage; home of weddings, lavish corporate stuff 幻 : Unreal, imaginary, illusory 异托邦 : We were never sure if it was or wasn t 旋梯 Spiral Staircases; don t get dizzy! for escaping in case animals get angry 映 : Reflect, mirror, shine; take a picture! 大李小李老李 Filmic factory workers 花格窗 Windows for dispeling odors; face towards Western Heaven 嚮 : Direction, turn towards, intention; nostalgia for home 阮玲玉 : She haunts my memories of the city 巴爾弗斯 : Balfour, Architect, possibly apocryphal 複 : Overlapping, doubling, multiple; her image in the glass 新华路 : A house of memory; a place of contestation 上海工部局 They built this thing: but why? 屠 : Slaughter; the bloody remnants of history 上海冻肉厂: Makers of yummy frozen meat 火-光-燭 : Light, future, deposit of memory, candle, flame Thick Map Projection System 1 Part map, part diagram this piece questions the illusive nature of Is it a year? A place? A building? Or something else? 碎片中的世界 World within a fragment; but is it? 色戒这是我俩的天堂映格上海滑动转盘空中舞台伞形柱上海工部局屠老场坊廊桥嚮拆牛道火-光-燭海伦路上海的天际线伞形柱城市的回忆将廊桥投射于未来之都旋梯新海派上海舞蹈卡记忆之轴 OTHER EDITIONS: Shanghai PS-1933: Neon Lights (1933) Shanghai PS-1933阮: Ruan Lingyu (1935) Shanghai PS-1933Lib: Liberation (1949) Shanghai PS-1933革命: Red East (1966) Shanghai PS-1933$$: Opening (1980) 幻複空间之轴寰格核 1投9影3場3 中心圆文德酒店曼荼罗质地牛鬼蛇神微剧场创意集群歌 Projection System 2 The projector embodies a collection of memories of the city and folds them together to speculate on what might come. 文化路口杨揚滴水湖核失憶老场坊 1投9影3場3 眼光輪迴海伦路 MODEL: Shanghai PS-1933ø: 闹海玄秘花格窗 MAKE: øøøøø 牛肉面 YEAR: (20XX) THE SHANGHAI PROJECTION SYSTEM OTHER EDITIONS: Shanghai PS-1933pt Pearl Tower (1994) Shanghai PS-1933eX: Expo (2010) Shanghai PS-1933 : Delta (2015) Shanghai PS-2033a: Centennial (2033) Shanghai PS-1933ø: øøøøø (19xx) LIN, BANFILL, ROBERTSON - UHI 1投9影3場3 1寰9格3核3: THE SHANGHAI PROJECTION SYSTEM 寰文化 : What everyone pursues by coming here 滴水湖 : An imagined end of the city; near the ocean 文德酒店 : This building looks familiar! 质地 : Feel the concrete; Call in Team Kudu! 驱邪 Get those spirits away! 洛杉矶 : Where we are supposedly from 创意集群 : Just what is a creative cluster anyway? 上海舞蹈卡 : Take my hand; dance me under neon lights 她 : Is he in Shanghai? LA? Does it matter? 耐克 : Responsible for weird black mask men; also shoes 玄秘 Obviously built with this in mind; W.A.S.T.E. 牛鬼蛇神 : That chill you feel speaks to their presence 邓丽君 : I hear her songs in my dreams 輪迴 Metempsychosis, reincarnation; the circle of life 失憶 : Cameron can t remember anything about this place 歌 : On a wagon, bound for market... 工人 Just as invisible here as everywhere else 好八連 : Victorious heroes of the city 曼荼罗 A magical wheel of color; opens to other worlds 杨揚 We miss her! 海鸥相机 : Take a picture to remember 上海放映机/投影機 The machine that projects 小笼包 We ate many of these in a restaurant nearby 微信 A virtual you, of the body/screen; be careful what you post! 上海滑动转盘 : Don Draper would be proud of this carousel 城市中国 Cool magazine! 路口 : Meeting of history and memory; dont forget to stop at Uniqlo 苏州河 Nearby creek, also a film 2033 : What happens in this year? Who will inhabit the slaughterhouse? 牛屠夫 : His daughter is searching for the city... 色戒: Makes student s uncomfortable 都市人文 : Urban humanities? What is that?!? 眼光 : New skylines; alternate Shanghai s 牛肉面 Try not to think about the cows! 这是我俩的天堂 : Feels like the record is broken 芳如 Star of the show! 地铁10号线 : Cuts through the heart of Shanghai 上海的天际线 : My city, my skyline (in four movements) 闹海 Here we are! Thanks for coming! Projection System 3 The uncompleted model depicts the ongoing construction and reconstruction of these memories. UHI - LIN, BANFILL, ROBERTSON UHI Spring Studio 2015 NOW SHANGHAI 闹海

4 The Past, the Present, and the Now Project teams gave further dimensionality to the urban humanists view of Shanghai through a close reading of their thick map. 1 寰 9 格 3 核 3: THE SHANGHAI PROJECTION SYSTEM Welcome to The 1933 Shanghai Projection System, a unique way to experience the global metropolis of Shanghai! As a distinctive product of Shanghai, the system utilizes one of the city s most iconic buildings as the basis for engineering innovation. Making use of the particular spatial properties of this building such as the Umbellate Columns, the Covered Bridges, the Circular Walkways, the Spiral Stairways, the Lattice Windows, and the Open Atrium, and then passing them through the patented tri-part lens apparatus ( 寰 Outside Lens- 格 Ramp Lens- 核 Core Lens) our dynamic system collects memory-fragments of the city and projects them in new and magical ways to any viewer. Originally built by the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1933 Shanghai 老场坊 has had a long and layered past, changing its form and function along with the swirling winds of history. First, it was the foremost abattoir in the world providing fresh meat products to the Paris of the East, rendered with the top mechanized techniques of the day. Later, it served the health of our proletarian nation by producing a range of medicines as the Shanghai Great Wall Biomedical Factory. Now, as the visitors with face-to-face exposure to the arts and an enjoyable, trendy lifestyle. Manufactured by The Shanghai Projection Group, formerly The Shanghai People s Projection Factory of Hongkou District, The Shanghai Projector System utilizes every bit of the city s history to full effect. It collects each memory-piece of the city, and folds them together to speculate on what might come, provoking new worlds from the most intimate of nostalgic memories to the most extravagant of utopian visions. Watch the Shanghai of 1933, 1949, 1957, 1966, 1972, 1985, 1994, 2010, 2015, or 2033 appear before you every layer of the city that can and will exist can and will exist here in our projected Shanghai. You will truly experience the 魔都 (Magic Capital). The projection starts with light pouring out from the glass floor of 1933 s Open Atrium. A shifting wheel of color, vibrant blues and reds, illuminates a hyperreality. There is the click as the first image slides into place. Then, a fast moving parade of images spills out, opening portals into every corner of the city: a thousand

5 The Past, the Present, and the Now Project teams gave further dimensionality to the urban humanists view of Shanghai through a close reading of their thick map. shikumen, a thousand skylines, a thousand different faces of Shanghai s people. At the end, the vision from inside the projection clears but an imprint of the city remains. The experience of The Shanghai Projector will linger with the viewer for some time. Which Shanghai will they carry with them? Scenes replay, from the ramps of 1933, from the streets of Shanghai, from the viewer s own life, in new collaged repetitions, sampled and brought together by the machine, projecting futures that are rendered from the city s varied fragments. Shanghai will appear again and again from these projections, each time made anew, appearing out of the noisy sea of the past. Step inside The Shanghai Projector: Projecting the memories of the city into the city of the future!

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