MAD completes City of Time at the 2023 Aranya Theatre Festival, a surreal, open-air art village designed for 300 hours of creativity and collaboration. Blending architecture, nature, and performance, the installation invites artists and visitors to explore, connect, and reimagine the boundaries of public space.

Migratory Bird Sand City,
a city of time,
exists for only 300 hours.

If the fleeting nature of physical existence is fate,
then we can build an imaginary city by the sea,
isolating reality, transcending it,
making it a place solely about time, human actions, and nature.

What people feel and think within the city,
is where emotion becomes eternal.

"Migratory Bird 300," initiated by Liu Chang, Zhu Sha, Zheng Jing, and Chen Minghao, uses "migratory birds" as a metaphor to bring together 300 creators from various fields and backgrounds to gather at Anaya, living and creating together by the sea for 300 hours.

From June 12 to June 25, 300 artists, 131 works, and 194 performances—installations, sculptures, body art, actions, paintings, films—will take place in the "Migratory Bird Sand City."

Ma Yansong at Migratory Bird Sand City

Liu Huanzhang's work "Dream"

Wang Guangle's work "Phosphor Body—On the Beach"

Xiang Jing's work "Kang Xiaoliang and Liu Jing"

In the twilight, Liang Qiaobo gazes at the countdown to Sand City.