As part of How to Turn the World by Hand and running alongside Mobile Bazaar/ Feral Trade Cafe, Rania Ho built the fifth incarnation of her DIY fountain off-site at the Scottish Book Trust.

In 2008, Beijing began a process of ‘greening and beautifying’ the city for the forthcoming Olympic Games. The idea was for man and nature to coexist in harmony and that with the Olympics came ‘the opportunity to get all of society involved in making the city greener and prettier.’

Rania Ho was interested in this process and began by cataloguing all new fountains and flower-beds in the city. Her practice progressed to making subtle interventions to these newly built structures using DIY materials to mimic the pomp and pageantry.

Fountain V was the fifth incarnation of this evolving process where Rania constructs a fountain made of everyday household materials and sites the work in a public space.

Read the How to Turn the World by Hand publication here

Read about more about How to Turn the World by Hand in the February–July 2011 publication

How to Turn the World by Hand was a year-long international research project between Collective, Edinburgh, PiST/// Istanbul and Arrow Factory, Beijing. It involved a three phase project including an exhibition exchange, events and a discussion programme investigating trade. How to Turn the World by Hand also included exhibitions by Fiona Jardine, Sun Xun and James N Hutchinson at Collective.