Abstract
This study presents one of many rural area revitalization programs conducted in contemporary China. Using the case of an art-led revitalization program conducted by Ningbo Municipality in cooperation with Renmin University (Beijing) in three villages (Gejia, Chengyang, and Dingwang), we analyze the relational role of art and art practices as part of rural communities’ development. We focus on material changes in the villages and symbolic, less measurable ones. We describe how the program helped to revitalize relationships with place (person – place), how the changes in material surroundings influenced relationships among people (person – person), and how they reshaped the bonds connecting people and their natural surroundings (person – nature). We address four main questions: (1) how the program was possible and financed; (2) what is the art concept used to promote positive changes; (3) how art and place-making processes are intertwined; and (4) what is the future of this program in Gejia, Chengyang and Dingwang villages. We also show how the above-mentioned processes may help combat poverty and depopulation in rural areas.
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