Chinese film maker Kevin Wang made a short documentary about our performance ‘100 Days of Stories’ as part of the Shenzhen/ Hong Kong Architecture Biennale. You can watch the whole movie online now! See below:
Although the Performance of 100 Days of Stories is finished now, visitors of the Biennale can still visit our Exhibition booth. In this small exhibition you get an insight of the six cities the drivers are from. Moreover you see pictures of the trips the drivers made to Shenzhen. You can visit the Biennale Exhibition in the area under the South Civic Square, Shenzhen.Open till January 23, 2010!
Go West exhibition space in the SZ/HK Biennale
Go West Project contribution to the SZ/HK Biennale on designws.com:
Designws.com - Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale Of Urbanism \ Architecture.
After 6 beautiful days, on December 11 it was time to say goodbye. We made some last pictures on the Civic square together, and then the drivers started their journeys back home. Another 10,000 kilometers in total…
Taxidrivers leaving
The drivers in front of the Civic Building and the Maurer Pavilion
During the last night, the drivers offered us a great dinner in a very good Hunan restaurant in Shenzhen. Of course, there was also baijao involved..
Hohhot, Changsha and Wuhan driver enjoying Hunan dishes Read the rest of this entry »
The taxi drivers turned out to be beach boys
Thursday afternoon, we decided to take a small sight seeing tour through Shenzhen with the 6 taxis. We wanted to visit the beach with the team and the drivers. It took us a one hour drive through the city of Shenzhen. The taxi project became a driving exhibition. Visitors could view the exhibition from their cars in the traffic jam…City Mobilization!
Taxi’s lined up in front of Civic Square before leaving Read the rest of this entry »
During 6 days, the taxistand in front of the Civic Building was roaring with activity…
Passengers getting into Changsha taxi
Go West assistant Ada helping at the taxi stand
During the perfomance of 100 Days of Stories, the project got a lot of media attention. The taxi drivers became local heros!
Zhengzhou and Hohhot driver at radio station Read the rest of this entry »
Many taxi drivers from Shenzhen are very curious about their visiting colleagues from remote cities in China. They park their cars along side the others and come to have a chat. They compare cars, fares, tanks, take pictures together and smoke eachothers cigarettes. (2nd from the right is Shenzhen driver)
With a lot of attention from the local Shenzhen taxis the ‘foreign’ drivers drove in a line to the gas station to fill the tanks. Go West’’s own promotion team leeds the way.
In between rides the taxidrivers are never bored: taking pictures, having lunch, playing cards… And they’re starting to make plans of their own for yearly trips to all the different cities for big reunions!
Outside the exhibition space and right across the main forum hall the taxis are lined up, to pick up the Biennale public for a tour around town.
Passengers ready for the ride.
The taxi drivers and the passengers they brought to Shenzhen checked out the exhibition site of the Go West Project, where the pictures of their trips are running on televisions. They explain to the Biennale public about the project.
Sunday the first rides of the performance “100 Days of Stories” took place in Shenzhen, around the Civic Square, the exhibition place of the SZHK Biennale. Just before the first rides the taxi drivers prepared their routes, in the city that is not their own but where they will drive their taxis for six days. They hardly needed assistance with finding on the map where we were, because “we’re taxidrivers!”
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