I travel out on the bus, about 10 miles
outside central Beijing and spend the morning at this sprawling
complex of former German electronics factories, now occupied by art
galleries, bars and supposedly, studios. It isn't very busy and most
of the work on show is disappointingly conservative, not much of it
is the “leading-edge” work one is led to expect by the publicity
and tourist information. There are not many visitors and some
galleries charge entry fees so I don't bother to go in.
I tend to feel that art exhibitions are
rarely, if ever, worth paying money to see. I gather what information
as I can, as for me this is work!
I wander around looking mean and moody,
and have a burger for lunch with beer and catch the bus back to Lama
Temple Road, (it's a very long journey, you sometimes feel you're
never going to reach the end!)
I actually manage to find a secret
network of new galleries in this area and feel pleased about this. I
fetch up at Houhai again for lunch.
Couple of beers at Great Leap and back
to the hostel, then out for a curry to round off the trip. I drop
into a bar that has lovely moving steampunk sculptures and have
absinthe on my way back, as I've never tried it before!
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