In a win for quirky creativity, the Shanghai-based Basement 6 Collective (B6C) has found a new home in a spacious flea market in the Uptown Records store on Pingwu Road. The non-profit experimental space, founded in 2013 by a group of Chinese and expatriate artists, curators, designers and dancers, started out in a grungy bomb shelter under a residential tower on Huashan Road, but it quickly became a favourite spot for performances, parties, and exhibitions by both amateur and established artists. “The air of Basement 6 is community sans inhibition, which is rare to a city becoming more and more focused on image consumption,” says the artist Kate Roseland, one of its the founders. The group was evicted from its original space in October, and has spent the interim on collaborative events, including a digital residency on their WeChat social media account, to explore how digital platforms can impact both the creation and consumption of art.
