SpringCity is a series of multisensory activations by MaggZ - situated within movement, sound, audio-visual experiences and physical installations. Inspired by MaggZ’s hometown of Kunming (Yunnan, China), SpringCity reimagines the city as a vision of the future, with each iteration responding to the SpringCity Manifesto. This Manifesto is a reflection of MaggZ’s ongoing research at the intersection of world-building, cyberfeminism, ancestral practices and archival investigations. Through a diasporic minority-Chinese lens, SpringCity aspires to offer bold and alternative dreaming spaces for those who don’t fit into a box of societal norms.





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SpringCity 10101 (Sydney, AU)
SpringCity 10101 is perseverance

creative direction & choreography @magg._z
choreography assistant @kierancrowe
videography @stoneage.romeo
post production @magg._z
dancer @magg._z @kierancrowe
sound @teqmun_




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SpringCity 17852 (Bali, ID)
SpringCity 17852 is ecologically morphed 

creative direction + talent: @magg._z
photography: @ccroserio
HMUA @adaratresna @raraendoh jewelry @naula_studio
silver mask collab piece @claudia.lepik x @naula_studio
styling @adaratresna @naula_studio
videography @rizromauli @riz__ro
videography post production + colour grading: @magg._z
assistant @neziapriscila
nails @_yanicegianina
text: @magg._z
sound edits @kierancrowe




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SpringCity 19999 (Melbourne, AU)
SpringCity 19999 is reverence 
creative direction / talent @magg._z
photography / post-prod @shannonmaypowell




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SpringCity 30642 (Melbourne, AU)
SpringCity 30642 is a multisensory interactive game-performance by MaggZ, situated within movement, sound, installation and technology. SpringCity 30642 transforms different spaces into a participatory game-design laboratory, to further investigate the idea of world-building and heterotopia, through a diasporic minority-Chinese lens. As such, to recontextualise localised ancestral practices of Kunming City (Yunnan Province, China) and club culture, through post-internet lens with body, sound, both physical and digital installation.

Commissioned by @4a_aus @asiatopa




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SpringCity 43214 (Melbourne, AU)
SpringCity 43214 is an interactive game-performance activated by street dance, sound, audio-visual installation through an Asian-diasporic experimental lens. The performance is a choreographic game with generative gaming rules, each rule is created during the performance by inputs from both performers and the audience, in response to the SpringCity Manifesto through sound and audio-visual cues. Audiences are a crucial part of the rule-making process as part of the game-performance experience. Starring movement artists aqua, hitahhchi and audio-visual artsit d duàn, SpringCity 43214 is taking over DanceHouse Upstairs Studio and Skylab space as MaggZ’s choreographic debut.

SpringCity 43214 is generously supported by DanceHouse, Next Wave and Vichealth through their Future Healthy initiatives.




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SpringCity_NiNETAiLED (Sydney, AU)
SpringCity_NiNETAiLED is a warrior, ageless with many faces 

creative direction + movement direction @magg._z
photography + post-production @reeseclaro @reesecore
styling & garments @aka.brks
HMUA + talent @magg._z
lighting assist @luckyfeverfew
assist + BTS @kierancrowe




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SpringCity_MARRiED (Melbourne, AU)
SpringCity_MARRiED is to marry and safeguard the purest part of you

creative direction + movement direction @magg._z
photography + post-production + lighting @ella.maximillion.studio
styling @sabrinaraso
HMUA + talent @magg._z
jewellery @sable.jewellery
space @ella.maximillion.studio




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SpringCity_BoRN (Melbourne, AU)
SpringCity_BoRN is bare-skin, heart naked and unafraid

creative direction + movement direction @magg._z
photography + post-production + lighting @camila___drt
costume+ styling @honeybbbbbee
HMUA + talent @magg._z
space @sanguinstudios



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SpringCity_MATRiARCH (Melbourne, AU)
SpringCity_MATRiARCH is relentlessly hopeful

creative direction + movement direction @magg._z
photography + post-production + lighting @dj_lux__
styling @styledby.milly
garments @ole.uckers
HMUA + talent @magg._z