Variark of Many Natures: Mobile Museum of Nature & Art

Описание: At the end of 2024, in collaboration with the Shanghai Pudong Being Art Museum and key educational partners, we launched the Variark of Many Natures: Mobile Museum of Art and Nature initiative. Our goal was simple yet ambitious: to bridge the gap in aesthetic education by bringing high-quality art directly into rural schools.

As the curatorial team, ANOTHER_ introduced the Variark Project—a spatial practice centered on mobility.

We transformed a transport vehicle into a roving exhibition system. Loaded with 100 modular wooden crates, the Variark traveled across Shanghai’s countryside, unfolding into a temporary museum at 14 different elementary schools.

The Impact by Numbers:

🚛 1 Modified Vehicle

📦 100 Modular Curatorial Crates

🏫 14 Rural Schools Visited

🎓 56 Systemic Art Courses Delivered

👶 4,000+ Children Reached

The exhibition, "Of Bloom and Wing: A Natural Inquiry of the Yangtze River Delta " allowed children to touch and explore the biodiversity of their own region.

Variark is more than a truck; it is a mobile workstation that switches roles between explorer, archivist, and translator. It collects the scattered traces of nature and culture along the journey and translates them into tangible experiences.

Looking back, the odometer tells only half the story. The real journey lies in the seeds of curiosity we planted in 4,000 minds.

Step inside the Ark. Click the video to witness the journey unfold.

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