A material\virtual mine

Credits

Exhibition Section: Cosmologic Dialogue_Virtual & Reality (The 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture)

Location: GDH City Jinpi Fang (Kingwei Brewery Industrial Heritage), Luohu District, Shenzhen

Exhibition Period: 12/2022-03/2023

Area: 364sqm

Organizer: Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government

Co- Organizer: Shenzhen Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, Shenzhen Luohu District People’s Government

Execution Unit: Guangdong Yuehai Land Holdings Limited

Chief Curators: Andong Lu, Zigeng Wang, Aric Chen

Curators: Zhao Rong (Design Society), Brendan Cormier (London V&A Museum), Chen Min

Exhibition Artists (Material Library): Shi Zhou @Studio 10, Yuxi Lei @NANOxARCH

Spatial Design Consultant: Studio 10

Principal-in-charge: Shi Zhou

Team: Chunhui Mo, Jinru Zhao, Jiaxiao Bao(Project Assistant), Yingxi Dong(Intern), Shuna Yang(Intern), Lechi Ma(Intern), Yongyi Wu, Feifei Chen(Project Assistant)

Contractor: Guangdong Langsi Engineering Co. LTD

Photos by: Chao Zhang

项目信息

展览板块：寰宇对话_虚实相生（第九届深港城市\建筑双城双年展）

项目地址：深圳市罗湖区东昌路9号粤海城·金啤坊（原金威啤酒厂）

展期：2022.12-2023.03

面积：364㎡

主办单位：深圳市人民政府

承办单位：深圳市规划和自然资源局、深圳市罗湖区人民政府

执行单位：广东粤海置地集团有限公司

总策展人：鲁安东、王子耕、陈伯康

策展人：赵蓉（设计互联）、柯鹿鸣（英国V&A博物馆）、陈旻

参展人（材料图书馆）：周实 @Studio 10、雷雨霫 @材料乘以设计

空间设计团队：Studio 10

主管合伙人：周实

团队成员：莫纯煇、赵津汝、包嘉晓（项目助理）、董盈希（实习）、杨姝娜（实习）、马乐驰（实习）、吴永义、陈菲菲（项目助理）

施工团队：广东朗思工程有限公司

摄影：张超

The Virtual & Reality Unit of the Cosmologic Dialogue Section at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture is located at the old Kingway Brewery recently renovated into the exhibition main venue. Its spatial design explores the relationship between the material and the virtual; on the one hand, it is not only a metaphor for the resources in the material world where material and energy are extracted from, the physical evidence of man's exploitation of them, but also the vehicle of the virtual; on the other hand, it not only implies mines in the virtual world, where energy-consuming digital activities such as "mining" take places, but also revisits and reflects on such phenomenon that an excessive amount of resources and energy in the material world are being consumed to manufacture digital hardware, to build infrastructures, as well as to sustain the construct and operation of the virtual.

The matrix of objects from both the Virtual and the Matters exhibitions are fully mixed in the open gallery space, while the exhibition display is constructed with "ore" modules made of eco-friendly recycled bonded foam and metal frame that can be dissembled and salvaged.

[Material Library] is an installation located at the far-end corner of the Virtual & Reality Unit of the Cosmologic Dialogue Section at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture. Objects displayed here includes a variety of environmentally friendly and low-carbon materials used in the artworks exhibited throughout the UABB main venue, samples of other local innovative sustainable materials, and virtual materials from the artwork "Beyond reification fallacy of the non-fungible materials" displayed on LED screens.

Its design echoes that of the exhibition space by deriving the prototypes from the unique morphology of the stone walls and caves in abandoned quarries; the unique texture of the carved walls in the caves is the trace left by human excavations, and eventually has become the physical evidence of their insatiable demands for material resources, as well as the projection of their desires, expectations and ideologies in the physical world. Therefore, the installation itself is not only a medium to display the physical and virtual materials, to bridge the two worlds, but also immediate visualization of the supply-demand and exchange relationships between the two.

Among the abandoned "stone walls" formed by "ore" modules made of eco-friendly recycled sponges and metal frames, the physical and virtual sustainable material samples are randomly scattered, awaiting to be discovered and excavated; in the "cave" space, you can sit in the hidden dark niche defined by the gigantic “stone pillars”, and watch the projected videos from the Virtual unit.

Similar to the rest of the exhibition space, when the exhibition comes to an end, the entire installation can be completely dissembled and salvaged.

第九届深港城市\建筑双城双年展“寰宇对话_虚实相生”板块位于由原金威啤酒厂改造而成的主展场（粤海城·金啤坊）D1栋三层展厅内，其空间展陈设计探讨了实体、虚拟与可持续发展的关系：一方面它是物理世界中被遗弃的矿场，既是虚拟信息载体的材料和能源来源，也是人们对自然界中物质资源索取消费的物证；同时，它是一座虚拟的矿山，隐喻虚拟世界所发生的事件（如“挖矿”）对物理世界能源的消耗，也对当今物质世界中大量材料和资源被投入制造硬件和基础设施、以支撑维持日益扩张膨胀的虚拟世界运行这一现象进行重新审视和反思。

“虚拟展”与“物质展”两部分在开放的展厅空间中混合呈点状阵列，所有展具均采用环保回收海绵制成的“矿石”模块及金属框架搭建而成，将在撤展后完全被拆解及循环利用。

[材料图书馆]位于第九届深港城市\建筑双城双年展“寰宇对话_虚实相生”板块展场一隅，装置中陈列有深双主展场参展艺术作品中采用的各类环保低碳材料、其他本土创新可持续材料样板、及以平板屏幕展示的“超越物化谬误的非同质性”虚拟材料。

其与整个展区的空间设计呼应，从废弃石矿场中的岩洞和岩壁抽象出空间原型；岩洞中岩壁特有的物理形态为人类劳动作业、对自然改造的痕迹，它成为人们对物质资源无休止索取的物证，也是人类欲望、期待和意识形态在物理世界的投射。因此，其展陈装置本身既是展示并连结物质和虚拟材料的媒介，也是两者供求和交换关系最直接的可视化。

在以环保回收海绵制成的“矿石”模块及金属框架搭建而成的废弃“岩壁”间，实体和虚拟的可持续材料样板随机散落，待人发现、发掘；而在“岩洞”空间中，人们可静坐于“石柱”间隐蔽幽暗的凹龛内观看循环播放的[虚拟]板块投影作品。

和展区的空间设计一样，在撤展后，整个装置可以被逆向拆解并最大限度循环利用。