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A documentary video that observes people of a Mosuo community building new houses by Lugu Lake in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. This observation is paired with an interview wih Binma ts’ung Xiao Loshui about the custom of the “walking marriage” (zou hun in Chinese).

This work has been shown at
Any Day Now, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, 2011
Red, Black, Silver, and White, Arndt Contemporary, Berlin, 2010
Unpossessing femininity: No more bad girls?
, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, 2010
Any Day Now, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2010
Mosuo Fireplace Goddess, Currents – Art & Music, Beijing, 2007