The Big Mist 大雾

In 2013, Ling GAO initiated art project called The Big Mist in London, aimed at raising awareness about air pollution and advocating for its improvement. The Big Mist art project took the form of an open call, through social media, for creative photographic submissions responding to the theme of environmental air pollution in Asia.

Sites such as Facebook, Weibo and Douban were used. Several dozen submissions from around the world, from Beijing to Hong Kong, Kathmandu to Berlin, London to Madrid, were received. An aim of The Big Mist is for participants to use performance and humour in the photographic form as a challenge to over- industrialisation and the pollution it brings. It also acts as a collective silent cry.