OO Zoom

In the spring of 2022, everyday areas in Shanghai were repeatedly redefined as lockdown, controlled, precautionary, or enclosed zones. OO Zoom emerged from this experience as a post-pandemic zone initiated independently by Shanghai artists for the Rockbund Art Museum’s “The Good Life” HighLight programme.

Located on the ground floor of MAYFUNG Building, OO Zoom was conceived as a heterotopian community for “the good life.” Visitors entered the open, pink-toned space by reading a guide, undergoing a playful “test,” and being purified with the scent of sage. Artificial grass, shaggy rugs, inflatable toys, and other pink objects occupied the unfinished building, forming a deliberately inexpensive and dreamlike fiction.

Across seven weeks, invited participants developed actions, performances, live interactions, discussions, physical activities, and music parties. Each event imagined and designed a version of “the good life,” accumulating and changing through collective creation.

The temporary Forest Dance Party shop displayed “goods” that were not necessities but carried personal emotion and memory. A sound installation by Zi Han used intermittent, non-semantic mouth sounds as background noise, intensifying OO Zoom’s absurd, humorous, and uncanny atmosphere.