Artist/activist Ai Weiwei and rocker Zuoxiao Zuzhou collaborated on "Munich Pork Hock," which features stills from Ai’s recent documentary film about his trip to Chengdu to testify on behalf of imprisoned activist Tan Zuoren. (Tan, like Ai Weiwei himself, has fought to expose corrupt officials seeking to cover up the shoddy construction believed to have led to the high death toll during the catastrophic Sichuan earthquake of 2008.) The stills from the documentary are shown alongside Zuoxiao Zuzhou’s original compositions for the soundtrack.

The film program is a particularly strong aspect of the traveling exhibition this year. Director Liu Jiayin is screening two films, her brilliantly drawn, award-winning portrait of a working-class Beijing family (her own, in fact), titled "Oxhide," and its sequel, "Oxhide II." Meanwhile Yang Rui’s experimental "Crossing The Mountain" presents an eerie story set in striking landscapes in southwest China among the Wa people, with whom the director lived for three years. Documentary filmmaker Zhang Zanbo presents "Falling From The Sky," a long, slightly surreal documentary set in Suining, a small town in southern China within the impact zone for rocket debris from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Last but not least, newcomer Xue Jianqiang blurs the line between documentary and sci-fi in "Martian Syndrome."

Literature makes its way into the Get It Louder program for the first time this year, with workshops by renowned Chinese writers including Han Dong, Zhu Wen, and Lu Yang, as well as London author Hari Kunzru and American author (and former Beijing resident) Roy Kesey. Meanwhile, in the design section, Cai Yuanhe exhibits a striking series of wood engravings titled "Non-place," while Shanghai-based designer Liu Zhili offers "Outside," an electronic sconce that doubles, in the true spirit of "sharism," as an elaborate joke about the internet.