How many miles have you flown this year? Have you calculated your fuel consumption per 100 kilometers this month? How many times have you checked the high-speed rail schedule this week? How many steps did you take on your last business trip?
ArtReview Chinese has stopped counting. In the art world we live in, the busyness of work is often linked to the frequency of travel - of course, not just in the art world. Since the invention of mechanical transportation, mobility has been positively correlated with capital and its definition of "success". Both artworks and the people who work for them need the support of cash flow to travel between cities. As scholar Quan Meiyuan once pointed out: "If an artist is successful, he or she will travel constantly as a freelancer, often working on more than one site-specific project at the same time, traveling around the world as a guest, tourist, adventurer, temporary internal critic or pseudo-ethnologist." (See author Gu Ling's in-depth investigation of art residencies in
