.ArtDepot is pleased to announce Lei Tong’s solo project Exercise Park, presented at Atoll Experimental Space on September 27. 

「About "the Guilin Disney Project"」

The Guilin Disney Project is a long-term art project begun by Lei Tong in 2018. It stems from Disney’s 1995 dream plan to build China’s first theme park in his hometown Guilin—and the ripples after its failure. Through varied thematic chapters, it blends Disneyfied pop-cartoon global landscapes with geocultural accent aesthetics and small-town fate. Using art as its medium, it gathers historical archives, interweaves with multidimensional contemporary themes, and distills narrative historical fragments into allegorical mythic texts.

「 Exercise Park」

Exercise Park, the latest project of the Guilin Disney Project, is presented as five word problems. 

It connects the classic math word problem with conceptual art texts. Word problems tell stories to pose mathematical questions, using everyday experience to make problem-solving lively and accessible. Similarly, as a question-oriented text, conceptual art uses a creative perspective to bring questioning back to everyday experience. Taking the Disney episode that once swept Guilin as a sample, it turns mathematical calculation into the problem within the story, achieving the pleasure of resolution; from the answer it then departs again, leading the story into new predicaments and generating questions about questions. 

Who has never been to Disney? Will Guilin have a Disney? How many dwarfs does Snow White need? Will Mickey and Liu Sanjie sink together? Is Lei Tong lying? Awaiting answers.