Creating and destroying cities with Shanghai performance artists

Tens of thousands of cookies are used to build model architecture in various shapes and colors for a performance act activity in East China's Shanghai municipality on Aug 24, 2016. The construction of the biscuit city will last from Aug 22 to 28, then guests will be invited to devour it. Performance artist Song Dong believes the week long construction and destruction through eating is art, symbolizing the desires of human beings. It's the desire of human beings to construct a city or turn it into ruins. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/Asianewsphoto]