Elisa Fuksas and Alexander Josephson's Beijing Strain SP6-LI4 addresses the political conditions in China and their veracity, a nation whose current upward trajectory in world culture and economic markets has made it the focus of a tremendous amount of attention. While specifically exploring the cultural relativism surrounding one of the world’s largest nations’ largely unspoken dilemma, Fuksas and Josephson will more broadly develop what they call a physical theory of social expression in the context of comparative analyses of North American and Chinese political cultures. As they have done in previous iterations of their work, Fuksas and Josephson will explore the political efficacy of plaster cast female infants, in reference to the alleged trend of female infanticide, to represent missing children and negative expectations created by western media, as well as experiment with the production of other objects alongside the icon of the infant. Strategically distributed in public areas throughout the city, their fields of sculptures serve as non-violent depopulated form of demonstration, intended to provoke discussion and debate.

Throughout their fellowship term, Fuksas and Josephson will engage in a continuous cycle of sculptural fabrication and installation in the city, and they will record the production of the physical objects and their effects. Through this process, they will both further develop their story SP6 L14 into a feature length film, and they will produce new short film experiments as a set of nomadic projections and screenings on New York City’s walls to function as tools for urban interference and intervention. Over the course of their residency, Fuksas and Josephson will also develop a set of critical writings in the form of a manual.