Zi Qin, Late Night Again (Traffic Light) 2024, Perspex, traffic light, metal, 260cm x 50cm x 50cm

Photo credit: Dean Qiulin Li

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Evening Harmony

Dean Quilin Li, Zi Qin and Jincheng Deng

This project reassembles everyday life scenes in a conned space to generate an analog of a nocturnal urban park, reflecting the ongoing colonisation of the late night.

This project positions urban parks not only as public urban spaces but also as the essential structure of modern cities, which regulates urban environments, time and dwellings.

Buffering residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation areas, parks effectively serve as adhesives that heal the fissures created by capitalist production. In these scattered environments of nature, city dwellers enjoy modern leisure that is exclusive to the capitalist production time.

During after-hours or night, parks not only set open stages for modern dwellers but also for nocturnal animals, dim lights and fallen dust, where these actors manifest various urban potentials.

As a collaborative effort by three artists with distinct practice orientations, this project seeks to emulate the ambience of nocturnal parks. To explore both human and other-than-human urban dwellers and their diverse occupations of the night.