The video Installation ’10,000 Flowers’ by architect Neville Mars, director of the Dynamic City Foundation was recently exhibited on a at the 2009 Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale urbanism/architecture in December.

10.000 Flowers, 2009, image taken from Burb.tv

10.000 Flowers is an artistic production of 5 films projected in loop on a 20mt video wall, each screen represents one of the five inner highways of Beijing through a kaleidoscopic lens, the video is accompanied by a soundtrack by James Eck Rippie, composed of natural details recorded on site. The city’s infastrucuture was filmed from inside a car as it circled the ring roads with a custom built kaleidoscope, large enough to fit a video camera, pointed to the sky.

10.000 Flowers, 2009, image taken from Burb.tv

The mesmerizing and beautiful images of Beijing’s various cross sections offer a new perspective of the frantic urban explosion of contemporary China – famous for its reckless and unsustainable planning antics - which urges viewers to contemplate on the hidden potential of this unexplored urban landscape.

10.000 Flowers, 2009, image taken from Burb.tv

For information, video and more pictures see 10.000 Flowers on Burb.tv