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		Image: Huang Yong Ping, Theater of the World, from Theater of the World--Bridge

Is Theater of the World an insect zoo? A test site where various species of the natural world devour one another? A space for observing the activity of “insects”? An architectural form as a closed system? A cross between a panopticon and the shamanistic practice of keeping insects? A metaphor for the conflicts among different peoples and cultures? Or, rather, a modern representation of the ancient Chinese character gu¹? —HYP

1. Composed of three insects superimposed upon a plate, the character gu means vicious things or evil spells.

Walker Top Tens of 2007, part three http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2008/01/10/walker-top-tens-2007-no3/ Walker blogs, Off Center: Lists

I-Ching

Taoism

Censorship

Panopticon

Snake

Gu

Foucault, Michel

Turtle