Linzi's Party

Linzi's Party is an ongoing collaboration with Linzi, a party supply vendor in Shanghai, that grew from a real trading relationship into a shared artistic practice moving goods through wholesale markets, livestream platforms, art museums, and street markets.

Linzi sells cheap party supplies from Shanghai's Chenghuangmiao Market, with much of her stock coming from Yiwu International Trade City. Since 2022, the project has followed these objects as they change context, price, and meaning.

The first iteration took the form of a Taobao Live shopping broadcast after the Shanghai lockdown. Later that year, party supplies entered Rockbund Art Museum as a self service shop, an auction, and a street vending performance.

In Amsterdam in 2026, Linzi's Shanghai stall was reconstructed inside Albert Cuypmarkt. Wholesale prices sat beside European market prices, while Linzi's product photos, shop images, and family pictures traveled with the goods. Cuixi designed and programmed a point of sale system that printed each purchase as an artwork, listing the object alongside expenses such as travel and labor.

The project keeps asking a simple question: what else travels with an object when it moves?