https://www.qiuzhijie.com/ Recent major news across works, curating, writing, teaching, publishing, and public projects by Qiu Zhijie. en Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/food-is-heaven-chinese-food-map/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/food-is-heaven-chinese-food-map/ A two-by-eight-meter hand-drawn ink map turns Chinese food culture into a terrain of tastes, ingredients, place names, legends, migration, and everyday public life. Public Project Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/curating/international-children-poetry-beach-plan/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/curating/international-children-poetry-beach-plan/ A curatorial project on Dongshan Island that collects children's handwritten poems and translates them into public inscriptions on seaside rocks. Curating Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/daily-writing-plan/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/daily-writing-plan/ A long-term plan that transforms Chinese calligraphy from daily practical scenes into contemporary public art, often combining writing with installation, performance, and technology. Large Art Plan Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/mirror-book-pavilion/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/mirror-book-pavilion/ A 2025 rooftop calligraphy installation at Zhongshuge in Tianjin, where mirrored characters, reflective surfaces, sky, river, and skyline form one field of reading. Daily Writing Plan Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/hidden-sculpture/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/hidden-sculpture/ Six caustic glass objects rotate under spotlights, making projected light shift between abstract stains and hidden figurative images. Installation Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/ecology-laboratory/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/ecology-laboratory/ Ecology Laboratory organizes living systems, materials, plants, vessels, sculptural bodies, and laboratory imagination into one installation field. Installation Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/mirror-flower-water-moon/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/mirror-flower-water-moon/ A working archive entry for mirror image, illusion, water, moon, text, and the unstable border between reality and representation. Project https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/composite-characters/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/composite-characters/ Composite-character calligraphy in Zhangzhou Ancient City turns classical allusion, contemporary language play, and public festival space into a shared reading scene. Calligraphy / Text https://www.qiuzhijie.com/writings/old-souls/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/writings/old-souls/ A 2024 exhibition and writing cluster around memory, reincarnation, regional return, ancient voices, and the older time carried inside contemporary life. Writing / Project https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/nanjing-yangtze-river-bridge-plan/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/nanjing-yangtze-river-bridge-plan/ Since 2007, the project has treated the bridge as a charged site where national memory, traffic reality, suicide, rescue work, and public imagination meet. Large Art Plan Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/qiu-notes-shangyuan-lantern-plan/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/qiu-notes-shangyuan-lantern-plan/ From the Ming dynasty Lantern Festival scroll, Qiu develops a Jinling theater of historical roles, suspended lanterns, ink painting, installation, performance, and script. Large Art Plan https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/world-map-plan/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/world-map-plan/ A long-running hand-drawn mapping system that organizes history, power, knowledge, media, geography, technology, cuisine, poetry, and social relations. Large Art Plan Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/lecture-performance-plan/ https://www.qiuzhijie.com/works/plans/lecture-performance-plan/ Lectures operate as performance, teaching scene, video, script, and public knowledge production. Large Art Plan Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT