Macalline Art Center will host a special salon series “Vortex in Beijing - Five Moments at Nightfall” for five consecutive days from October 1st to 5th. As the Art Center’s satellite program in Shanghai, the “Vortex” special salon will take place primarily in the format of performance lectures. It invites artists and scholars to reorganize and present their nonstandard artistic practices or academic inputs, incorporating both research-based thinking and intuitive imagination. We have invited six performers, whose topics will encompass video game, field research, ruin exploration, family genealogy retrospection, fantasy and cultivation of immortality, UFO and science fiction, among others. They interweave and interplay geographical, psychological and historical spaces by using contrasting methods of working. “Vortex in Beijing - Five Moments at Nightfall” is scheduled to go on during the temporary closure of Macalline Art Center, set to start at the dusk of each day. We have preserved the former structure and facilities of gallery space from previous exhibitions, which will serve as an old map waiting to be activated by performances, or as “ghosts” that dwell in the art museum, embracing a new hustle-bustle at each nightfall.