Yuxi Cheng

Yuxi Cheng is an artist. She graduated from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in Environmental Art and Design. She is currently studying MA Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art. She is passionate about the integration of interdisciplinary fields such as image, psychology and spatial environment. She sees images and psychology as a form of life. The medium of image in the process of transmitting information and knowledge inevitable human perception system, forming another dimension of spatial environment. The gesture, the atmosphere, the rhythm.

She is also a traveler, participating in the perceptual practices of different cities. Exploring the authenticity of urban environments based on traditional urban geography. She likes to record the fragmentation of the environment and the changing state of the discontinuous space.

More than a Point aims to study the environmental impact of wind farms on the island of Euboeavia and is based on ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΕΩΣ Απόφαση 49828/2008 (GAZETTE OF THE GOVERNMENT Decision 49828/2008) By drawing through the real dimensions and entangled networks of the wind turbine, we can explore spatial and material impacts of this one component of renewable energy infrastructures and planning. While Southern Euboea is home to many wind turbines, their impact is multi-dimensional and reaches much farther than their immediate surroundings.The unseen impacts of wind turbines is, in fact, much wider than the impact of their physical size and materiality. Drawn on maps as single points, the actual body of the turbine and its consequences is unaccounted for in planning and development schemes, giving the incorrect impression that a turbine can exist in a forest, or village, or protected area without environmental harm.

The aim of the project is not to discourage the development of wind energy, but to encourage us all to rethink their environmental impact and to plan accordingly. We have chosen to work with newsprint media because of its history as an ‘underground’ media and for ease of distribution and flexibility of form.