Ou Ning  Ou Ning (; born 1969) is a Chinese artist, film maker, curator, writer, publisher and activist. He is the director of two films San Yuan Li (2003) and Meishi Street (2005), chief curator of Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture (2009), founding chief editor of the literary bimonthly "Chutzpah!" (Tian Nan, 2011-2014), founder of Bishan Commune (2011-2016) and School of Tillers (2015-2016). He taught at GSAPP, Columbia University  and worked as the founding curator of Kwan-Yen Project from 2016 to 2017. Ou Ning started writing poems and publishing underground magazines from 1986 when he was a high school student, then got involved in the Chinese Avant-Garde Poetry Movement during the end of 1980’ and the beginning of 1990’. He co-found the poetry journal "The Voice" with the Hong Kong-based poet Huang Canran in 1992, later became a rotating editor of "Modern Chinese Poetry", an independent poetry quarterly found by Beijing misty poet Mang Ke and critic Tang Xiaodu in 1991. When graduated from Shenzhen University in 1993, he shifted to the Chinese indie music scene and became a music promoter and critic. He published the underground music zine "New Masses" (1994-1995), organized live concerts in Southern China for Beijing rock musicians including Cui Jian, Tang Dynasty and other new bands,  and the first tour performance in China for John Zorn and Yamantaka Eye in Foshan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Beijing. In 1999, he published the journal "Filmakers", founded the independent film and video organization U-thèque, hold weekly screening and discussion events in the cafes, bars and bookshops in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. In 2004, he co-founded the Alternative Archive with the artist Cao Fei as their working platform in Guangzhou. Ou became the director of Shao Foundation when he moved to Beijing in 2008. San Yuan Li was commissioned by Hou Hanru, the curator of “Z.O.U.(Zone of Urgency)”, 50th Venice Biennale, 2003, directed by Ou Ning and Cao Fei, produced with the members of U-thèque Organization. The 40 min black-and-white experimental documentary film with soundtrack by Li Chin Sung (aka ) presents a highly stylized portrait of San Yuan Li, a traditional village within the surrounding skyscrapers of Guangzhou City.