HERO IMAGE: system object, green glow. Printed receipt from the point of sale system.
Linzi's Party
IMAGE 2: live photo (add class glow-scene). Amsterdam stall and double price tags.
IMAGE 3: ¥2.50 auction, Rockbund Art Museum.
IMAGE 4: 618 livestream screenshot.
2022 to present · Relational Practice / Supply Chains / Creative Coding
Initiated and led by Lin Cuixi, with _ao_ao_ing ensemble and Wu Fenglin (Linzi)
A long term collaboration with Linzi, a party supply wholesaler in Shanghai, that follows cheap festive goods from her market stall through livestream platforms, museums and a market in Amsterdam.
Linzi runs a small party supply shop in Shanghai's Chenghuangmiao small commodities market, and was the ensemble's prop supplier for years. After the 2022 Shanghai lockdown, that trading relationship became the work itself. Each iteration puts Linzi's stock back into circulation under a different system of exchange (a livestream sale, a self service shop, an auction, a market stall) and asks what these "non essential" goods, and the people who make and sell them, are worth. Linzi takes part as supplier and collaborator, and her own photographs of family, neighbors and customers travel with the goods.
How the system works
The goods: inexpensive festive items (lanterns, feather fans, tinsel) that originate in Yiwu, China's wholesale hub for small commodities.
The exchange: visitors take part as buyers, not spectators. Every purchase is a real transaction.
The point of sale: Cuixi coded and designed an online point of sale system that prints each buyer's receipt as an artwork, turning the transaction record into the object people take home.
The price: in Amsterdam, each item carries two prices, its Yiwu wholesale price and its European market price, so the supply chain's markup is visible at the moment of purchase.
Iterations
2026.07.18 to 07.30 · de Appel Kiosk: Linzi's Party Supplies. A replica of a Shanghai market stall. Albert Cuypmarkt, Amsterdam
2022.10.16 · ¥2.50 Street Vendors, durational performance. RAM Highlight 2022 "OO Zone", Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
2022.10.15 · ¥2.50 Non Essential Items Auction. Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
2022.09.28 to 10.16 · ¥2.50 Self Service Shop, interactive installation. Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
2022.06.18 · 618 Livestream Supersale, during China's midyear shopping festival. Performers who had left Shanghai during the lockdown sold Linzi's stock live. Initiated by Cuixi. Taobao Live
Video
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Credits
Concept and organization: _ao_ao_ing ensemble (DT Fang, Selena Lu, Eva Lou, Lin Cuixi, July Yang). Supplier and collaborator: Wu Fenglin, Linzi's Party. Photography: Wei Ding (2022). ¥2.50 commissioned by RAM Highlight 2022, Rockbund Art Museum. 2026 iteration presented by de Appel Kiosk, Amsterdam.