These two photographs and video are gifts from Cao Fei to accompany her video installation Asia One 2018. Asia One No. 1 and Asia One No. 2 2018 are stills taken during the production of her 'Asia One' project, while 11.11 2018 is a documentary that contextualises the video installation's speculative narrative, which imagines the future of labour in a fully automated warehouse. (All three works accompanied the display of Asia One in APT9 in 2018.) As with that work, each focuses on the logistics hub of online business-to-consumer retail giant Jingdong, or JD.com, one of the most technologically advanced manufacturing and distribution facilities in China.

Cao Fei was granted unprecedented access to interview JD.com employees, as well as to film onsite to create her works. Asia One No. 1 depicts an enormous inflatable octopus on the warehouse floor, a still taken from a dream sequence in the video, where a tiny keyring on a bored employee's desk becomes a giant prop for a choreographed dance sequence. Asia One No. 2 features a moment of mischief-making by the only two human workers at the plant, as they play on the chutes and conveyors to alleviate the daily humdrum. 11.11 takes a documentary approach to the intense workload experienced across the JD.com network ahead of China's Double Eleven Festival, an annual data- and social-media-driven online shopping event held on 11 November. Through candid interviews with staff, Cao Fei poses the question of what future social ecologies might arise from such present-day developments.