Spring Story
2008
single channel video, 12’, ed. of 10 (2003)
In 2003 Yang Zhenzhong went to the Siemens factory just outside of Shanghai where some 1,500 hundred workers are busy assembling mobile phones for the entire planet. Yang asked each of the workers successively to say one word from the speech that was to lead their working there in the ？rst place, until all 1,500-odd words had been recited. He then painstakingly spliced their contributions together to recompose the entire speech. Though the resulting twelve-and-a-half minute ？lm has a manifestly critical dimension, it is particular effectiveness stems from the fact that it does not formally oppose but rather reproduces the factory’s highly structured Taylorist production. Yang’s work truly does liberate the productive forces of critique, as it is one of these rare con？gurations that allow us a point of view on process of which it is both the prism and the outcome.
Category:
Work/
Work
Language: English
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春天的故事 Chinese
