Shanghai Expo:

Notes on a video-essay

Juan Francisco Salazar and Tim Winter
Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney

Documenting Expo: a convergence of narratives

Tim Winter

Shot in July 2010, Shanghai Expo: a video-essay sets out to observe the layered complexity of the Expo as an assemblage of people on the move, pervasive technologies, urban swelling, extreme weather conditions, and of nations showcasing their pasts and ideas for ‘better’ futures. Four members of the team contributed footage and the analytical themes in the video directly emerged from discussions about book chapters and articles. As such, the video is at once an exploration into innovative research strategies and a communicative-pedagogical device, as its Creative Director Juan Francisco Salazar explains in the book.