Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

The "Khek Dhang Ke" is a long-term project platform launched by the Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, focusing on the changes of social and personal experiences in the Bund area. We will cooperate with educators, artists, scholars, architects, curators and other experts in different fields in the Bund area to form a research team, and through regular information sharing and resource exchange, we will jointly plan a series of research and public projects to gain an in-depth understanding of the Bund area. The name originates from the Shanghai dialect "Khek Dhang Ke", which means "living room". We hope to build a platform for cultural exchange, where residents and groups of the Bund community can establish close ties and enrich the perspective and ways of mutual understanding of the local.

As the starting point of the development of modern Shanghai, the Bund has experienced rich historical and social changes. It has always been regarded as a symbol of Shanghai and a tourist destination. Behind this traditional image, the Bund region is undergoing the transformation of various business forms and population mobility with the change of the times. Nowadays, the rapid expansion of network technology makes people far away from the real living environment and the surrounding groups. Anthropologist Xiang Biao once proposed "the disappearance of nearby", pointing out the current situation of the separation of the relationship between man and the environment. When life is structured by data and networks, we are gradually losing our sense of what we have experienced and what is happening around us. As an academic and public welfare professional institution in the Bund, we take it as our responsibility to collate, study and protect the cultural history and profound culture of this region. We hope to investigate and record these people and stories that have gradually disappeared in the process of urban development through a series of research and art project planning of the "Khek Dhang Ke", build a literature archive related to this area, and pay attention to ordinary people working and living in this area.