Live Magazine Show 2026-2027 edge / Borde

Tongji Philip Qian + Karen Villeda

“Fusang”

In the order of appearance

Cover

Michael Cherney’s carved pumpkin depicting the fusang tree from Wu Liang Shrine (Eastern Han Dynasty)

Opening

Tlaxcala video of visual college (Credits: Levon Djevalikian and Tlaxcala Fregona Facebook)

Weather Forecast from STV (Shanghai Television)

Music by Meng Weidong (for CCTV)

Act I by Tongji Philip Qian

Act II by Karen Villeda

Video from Archivos Televisión Local de México

Photos of personal archive

Music: “Ikigai” by Awful Traffic-Adolfo Álvarez Villeda

Act III by Tongji Philip Qian

Installation images from Shanghai Biennial 2000 Shanghai Spirit (from the official catalogue published by the Shanghai Art Museum)

Ken Lum, Photographs for INSITE 97, 1997

Music from FamilyMart

Act IV by Karen Villeda

Photo by Nazim Avendaño Ramos

Puppet “Prisciliano” by artisan Ale Morea

Music: “El toque del tambor de los chivarrudos”, YouTube Caballeros del sur de Tlaxcala

Act V by Tongji Philip Qian

Ken Lum, Weather Report for Shanghai Biennial, 2000

Act VI by Karen Villeda

Photos of personal archive

Technical support Tianjiao Wang
Deepest gratitude to Ken Lum, Zheng Shengtian, and Qian Yuyuan
¡Gracias a mi hermosa familia: mi mamá Iris, mi hermano Adolfo y mi tío Armando!
The English translations of Karen Villeda’s poems are by NAFTA (The North American Free Translation Agreement/No American Fraught Translation Argument): Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Whitney Celeste DeVos, and Zane Koss and are fragments of String Theory (Cardboard House Press, 2025).