Blue and Red

Blue and Red takes place in two different cities weaving together sequences of nighttime spectacles in the public spaces of Guangzhou where Zhou lives with footage of the 201314 Occupy Bangkok protests that took place while he was visiting the city In both cities Zhou concentrates on public spaces as collective experience highlighting the areas and their occupants in washes of color particularly the electric blue of LED light which he contrasts with the surface of a third space the toxic red runoff of a heavy metal mine in northern Guangdong province