Land of the Throat

This work's Chinese title references a military term that uses the throat's location on the body as a metaphor for a strategically important position or passage. For "Land of the Throat," Zhou Tao considered construction sites as such critical places in his investigation of the rapid urbanization of southern China's Pearl River Delta. This region's changing topography compelled Zhou to imagine other terrain, both real and imagined, and even the surfaces of other planets in order to propose a recent history of humanity, the materials we produce, and the landscapes we inhabit.