Happy Stacking
Nanling, Guangdong Province, China
April-May 2008
Traditional ping fang houses earmarked for demolition
Refurbishment proposal put to locals in the market
Market stall built for various activities during the visit
Screen printed wallpaper featuring furniture from the ping fang houses
Tailor Tang Baiyi at her workshop
Jacket detail developed by Tang and Laura





Happy Stacking is a project by Grizedale Arts in collaboration with
Vitamin Creative Space and the Zhongheng Ecotourism Development
Company, China. Seven artists and curators spent 3 weeks in the
mountain village of Nanling in Guangdong Province to look at how this
remote settlement is reacting to global cultural change and to see how
artists can be useful in helping in this process of change and how
artists and art itself can, in turn, be changed for the better.
Nanling group:
Adam Sutherland, Grizedale Arts Director
Alistair Hudson, Grizedale Arts Deputy Director
Maria Benjamin (Guestroom), Artist
Bryan and Laura Davies, Artists
Harold Offeh, Artist
Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Artist
Jiaying Tan, Project manager, facilitator, translator and anthropologist
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