The aim of this research project is to analyze through AAA’s extensive collection, artistic interactions between individuals and the symbolic network they have created to conform a constellation of texts, concepts and artworks influencing further their sense of collective and individual identities which will shape and question inter-subjective shared meanings in the geopolitical cultural context of contemporary China. Gathered in conjunction with AAA’s multi-year research project ‘Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990’, this material accounts for the relationship that exists between texts and cultural products regarded as "the forces for the development of Chinese experimental art since the 1980s " and The emergence of performance and installation art and the processes of its creation.