April 30th, 2023, Boger Hall, Middletown, CT
Co-curated with Xingyan Guo and Xiran Tan.
Co-sponsored by Feminist, gender, sexuality studies, Center for Humanities, East Asian Studies, and Anthropology Department at Wesleyan University.
Temporary Park is a community space operating since 2021 for migrant/queer people/ teenagers in Shanghai, China. From their perspective as the initiating artist and organizer, yuqing has collaborated with 15 migrant/queer youths, whom together turned an empty office into a radical experiment on communal learning. Temporary Park is unapologetically skeptical of existing modes of community services as well as the capitalized notion of art and creativitity. It precariously maintains its autonomy by distancing itself from institution interventions.