Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (PSFO)’s full name is the Office of Pure Political Form, founded in 2005 by curator and critic Leng Lin and artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, and Liu Jianhua. Through collective creative practice, they try to reconstruct the visibility and influence of socialism in a certain historical period, and transform the political meaning of history into a pure form without content—that is, “pure political form”.

Describing itself, Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (PSFO) says: “We have come together, and this may be a psychological compensation for our own flaws. We quickly realized that ‘we are together’ should become, or was already becoming, our way of life. ‘I’ am more and more intertwined with ‘we’, but ‘I’ am not connected with ‘we’ in the name of religion or any other ideology. ‘I’ and ‘we’ are connected on the material level by eating, drinking, playing, and making music together.” For example, in the video work Tofu, Kung Fu, Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (PSFO) chose two words known around the world and pronounced in Chinese, “tofu” and “Kung Fu”, and eulogized them as “Chinese culture welcomed across the world.” In 2014’s Do the Same Good Deed, hundreds of volunteers repeatedly cleaned the same bus over and over again in Guangzhou, demonstrating the concepts of individualism and collectivism in a social form and interpreting the state of 21st century China’s political, cultural and spiritual life through social memory and emotional experience.

(Edited by Lijie Wang & Miao Zijin)