Cao Minghao & Chen Jianjun

Based in Chengdu, the duo develops research-led, process-based projects around water, ecology, disappearing villages and shared knowledge. Collaboration is not a subject added to the work: it is the method through which the work takes shape.

Notice how documents, conversations, traditional techniques and collective action are held together. The work asks us to see ecology as a network of social relations, not as scenery.