Zheng Mahler – A Season in Shell
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2025
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
978-3-85881-879-9 (ISBN)
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
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The documentation of an artistic-scientific research project by Hong Kong-based collective Zheng-Mahler in collaboration with Zurich’s Johann Jacobs Museum that Investigates the complex migration and trade routes between eastern Africa and Southeast Asia. Text in English and Chinese
This book documents a research project by the Hong Kong-based collective Zheng Mahler in collaboration with Zurich’s Johann Jacobs Museum. In 2013, Artist Royce Ng and anthropologist Daisy Bisenieks engaged in fieldwork amongst African traders, businessmen and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. Their focus was on the Chungking Mansions trading hub, where their artistic and scientific research became entwined with the Red Sea Trading company, run by a Somali-born businessman known as the Bull. Zheng Mahler trace the passage of pink abalones, collected by a co-operative of Somali fishermen, to the informal dried seafood markets in Hong Kong, where the Bull has been selling the abalone meat. Simultaneously, the fishermen devised a trade route for the abalone shells from Berbera to Dubai and onwards to China, where they are treated, polished and refined into mother of pearl and sold at profit to Hong Kong jewellers and Swiss watch makers for use as ornamental parts of time pieces.
Zheng Mahler - A Season in Shell tells this story, in which distinctions between art and science, business and culture, documentary and fiction are constantly subverted. The monthly reports Ng and Bisenieks sent to the museum and a wealth of images reconstruct the progress of their research. Published alongside are essays that investigate relevant aspects, such as the circumstances of African migrants in Hong Kong or the potential and importance of artistic research.
Text in English and Chinese.
This book documents a research project by the Hong Kong-based collective Zheng Mahler in collaboration with Zurich’s Johann Jacobs Museum. In 2013, Artist Royce Ng and anthropologist Daisy Bisenieks engaged in fieldwork amongst African traders, businessmen and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. Their focus was on the Chungking Mansions trading hub, where their artistic and scientific research became entwined with the Red Sea Trading company, run by a Somali-born businessman known as the Bull. Zheng Mahler trace the passage of pink abalones, collected by a co-operative of Somali fishermen, to the informal dried seafood markets in Hong Kong, where the Bull has been selling the abalone meat. Simultaneously, the fishermen devised a trade route for the abalone shells from Berbera to Dubai and onwards to China, where they are treated, polished and refined into mother of pearl and sold at profit to Hong Kong jewellers and Swiss watch makers for use as ornamental parts of time pieces.
Zheng Mahler - A Season in Shell tells this story, in which distinctions between art and science, business and culture, documentary and fiction are constantly subverted. The monthly reports Ng and Bisenieks sent to the museum and a wealth of images reconstruct the progress of their research. Published alongside are essays that investigate relevant aspects, such as the circumstances of African migrants in Hong Kong or the potential and importance of artistic research.
Text in English and Chinese.
Anthropologist Daisy Bisenieks and artist Royce Ng form the Hong Kong-based collective Zheng Mahler. Through electronic media, performances, installations and exhibitions they work at the interface of art and science. Sophia Prinz is a visiting professor of theory of design and gender studies at Berlin’s University of the Arts. She also works as a scientific advisor at Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 80 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Zurich |
| Sprache | chinesisch; englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 230 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 3-85881-879-8 / 3858818798 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-85881-879-9 / 9783858818799 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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