Divergent Memories of Tumen Shan-shui In collaboration with Xiaoxuan Lu, 2018 - present Serving as a boundary between China, North Korea and Russia, the Tumen/Tuman River rises on the slopes of Mount Changbai / Paektu and flows into the Sea of Japan/East Sea. Since the Peking Treaty of 1860, the river and its surrounding areas have become a site of violent conflict and global power shifts for more than a century. Divergent Memories of Tumen Shan-shui creates a fabricated and imagined transnational landscape, shifting the gaze from colonial and Cold War dreams to a new way of looking at the Tumen region on the verge of rapid change. It casts new light on water’s role as an agent in not only the formation of physical reality of the riparian areas defined by this one river, but also the generation of conceptual relations among states within this transborder region. This project provides a visual narrative of interrelationships between contemporary phenomena, historical background, and ever-changing conceptualization of the Tumen landscape.
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