Responding to the Raockbund Art Museum's research direction of diasporic fiction, the Museum's summer night program engages sepculative practices as a far less reigid field. It builds on the lecture series that explored the bridging of scieentific knowledge and radical literature through the early emergence of science fiction in China and commissioned a text on "burden" from sci-fo writer Tang Fei as a pre-text for the night of party.

"Desire and labor are intertwined, two sides of the same coin, I am intoxicated by both." Tang Fei, Bee or Heidegger, 2024

Sci-Fi Summer (Love) is the Rockbund Art Museum summer night party. To play, you have to work for it.

Love—emotions and moods—has always been a running thread in sci-fi novels and films. It's archaic and timeless. It's universal and exists in a multitude of different spaces. It's fantastical and disastrous. (Love) is within a hold, a carrier. It can be burdensome like an information overload, and requires exchanges in order to keep it afloat and abundant.

Sci-Fi Summer (Love) creates a party scene at the museum with electronic music, video, and dance, alongside a market with eight artists. The commissioned text "Bee or Heidegger" from sci-fi writer Tang Fei will be broken down into fragments and appear on tokens as a currency for exchange for the night. The tokens have to be earned from the market-stall artists who offer interactions based on the different forms of exchange in speculative scenarios. The tokens can then be spent throughout the evening on performances full of cultural relics, drinks, and other memorabilia. Fragmented attention is spent on the market to earn tokens, in order to be immersed in collective emotions at the party.