Superposition Wenzhao Zhong Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spooner
This largest Confucius Institute campus ever arises in Latrobe Valley re-inhabiting the closed Hazelwood Power Plant not only as an outpost of the Belt and Road Initiative, but also as conflicted sovereignty. Confucius Institute, as the consequence of the extension of the Chinese soft power, has locally considered a controversial organisation that potentially threatens Australia while its proof, to some extent, seems not invincible. However, this project attempts to encourage a binary status of the two opposing sides of the Confucius Institute, which is not either nefarious or amiable, but both at the same time. By overlapping the existing local heritage and the representative heritage of Chinese power the Forbidden City as the landscape condition as well as exploring the adjacency between the embedded 100 contested programs that involve the controversy of Confucius Institute, the internal conflict of Confucius Institute has been intensified yet both nefarious and amiable aspects are still maintained within. As a consequence, neither can it be proved guilty nor innocent, but the possibility of both might exist as superposition.