The beginning of 2013 will see Stop-Motion Animation Residency Project by SUN Xun in ShanghART Beijing Space. For nearly 3 months between the end of January and late April, the artist will be accomplishing his long-planned stop-motion animation work. By then ShangART Beijing will be altered into an"animation studio" and be fully open to visitors. It marks SUN Xun's rarely seen long-time residency project during the past five years in China, whereas the unknowingness of the exhibition site and outcomes are predestined by the time span, spatial dimension and the act of residency per se. Deprived of title, duration and opening time, this project will maintain a state of reading and interpretation constantly. Both what will happen and what will be presented in the end are bound to be the "unexpected" expected by the artist.