Joseph Wei

Park on Park on Park and A Lot of Islands
Advisor: Mira Henry

The mega-forms are cities within city. The city is actually not city in part because it could also be seen as a vast landscape of relation and contradiction. This landscape with islands floating. As the cities grows the congestion layering upon its previous version and insanity non-stop. 

Through learning and documenting situations as-found in Bunker Hill, and gathering other urban incidents, the experience and image is stacked upon and stacked upon again, to create islands, archipelagoes, and poetic relations. The festival is never a nostalgia, but a poetry of borrowing from its sampled population an urban relation, with explosion and multiplicity it comes to a crowd. When the metropolitan re-absorbs back this mutative congestion, the mixture will again testify a relentless evolution, while facing its own acquiescence of discretion and distancing.

In the hyper-congestion and constant relation in an urban living condition – Dwellings, forms of living, transient and permanent household, mountain, archipelagoes, relational attractions, collection of forms, discretion of urban relation, super-structural-framework, farms, event-corridors, bureaucracies, what should be parked, to park in, and where to, and to have a park? 

This is a proposal of urban living in downtown LA, in which there is all the above. In constant shifting relation, the park claims its urbanity as an artificial fiction fabricated by infrastructure, to in return support the poetics of discretion archipelagic landscape.