our favourite work at the sz-hk biennale this year is easily Liu Jia Kun’s With The Wind, a diaphanous roof billowing in the breeze up and down giving wonder and shade. we like it being direct and simple while suggestively mocking the frozen stiff giant eagle roof of the shenzhen civic center.

particularly, we like it for NOT:

- saying what it does not do

- being too mind-numbingly conceptual

- building dead metaphors that weigh a ton and cost a lot

- building visual sophistry from hackneyed thinking

- using sly word-games that blur the weak-minded

the few other works which thankfully did not fall into such common traps and which we also enjoyed, were Lin Chi Wei’s Shenzhen: Social Measurement Through Sound, a social musical performance by ordinary people that gives you renewed optimism of the collective; WEAK! Architects’ (Hsieh Ying-chun, Roan Ching-yue and Marco Casagrande) The Bug Dome where people gather to sing and chat over a campfire; and Hideyuki Nakayama’s Walking on Water in the basement of the giant eagle that encourages a sense of wonder about our urban environment.