{"id":6444,"date":"2025-07-05T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6444"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T09:39:30","slug":"yuzirandelianxixiaocao-little-grassfangyingyishujiafenxiang","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/events\/yuzirandelianxixiaocao-little-grassfangyingyishujiafenxiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Practising with Nature | &#8216;Little Grass&#8217;: Screening and Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8217;Little Grass&#8217; is a moving image work created by Chutian Shu in 2024. The short film features a fictional protagonist who is displaced from their residence due to urban planning, weaving their experiences together with a discourse on the classification of various plant species. As urban fringes are continuously transformed into new housing estates, the landscape undergoes a metamorphosis where indigenous vegetation and farmland are systematically replaced by the artifice of commercial residential gardens. In these new communities, the greenery curated for warm, luminous modern interiors\u2014such as succulent cacti\u2014represents plants positioned at the &#8216;centre&#8217;. However, concealed beneath this aesthetic is a colonial history of flora: tropical desert plants, uprooted from their native lands, are transported to city centres to serve as symbols of exotic fantasies.<br \/>\nDuring the post-screening session, SHU Chutian will discuss how her artistic practice utilises archives and moving images to reflect upon the complex histories and realities of nature and culture from specific geographical points of departure. Through character-led storytelling, she will share her multi-dimensional observations on the process of urbanisation and our shifting relationship with the natural world.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"event_category":[82,64],"class_list":["post-6444","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-a4-art-museum","event_category-open-class","event_category-community-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}