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ShanghART Video Works
Here you can view short, (2-3 minutes) excerps of the videos, sorry for low res. quality. To view these videos and many more in full length please visit the videotheque at ShanghART in Shanghai and in Beijing.
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XU Zhen
We are right back 2001 3 minutes 23 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: XZ19 / id:2614 |
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LIANG Yue
The Happiest Winter 2001 10 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: LYU021 / id:8432 |
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ZHANG Ding
Feng Han 2006 59 minutes 30 seconds Video | Single channel | DVD Edition of 10 code: ZDU021 / id:7227 |
This video features a man, in a town of Northwest China,lost in his insanity.On a public square,in the middle of the night,his behavior eerily appears as an artistic performance:making disturbing and comical faces,singing,playing with objects surrounding him.Passers-by laugh as they see this curios character.When alone,he plays with his shadow,opening a dialogue with himself.These language and acts of his own are spontaneous,natural,as a"theaterical"scene without any acting…His unconstrained boby moving with fluidity reflects his liberated mind. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Light and Easy I 2001 6 minutes 39 seconds Video | Single channel | b&w, sound Edition of 10 code: yzzv11 / id:4462 |
“Light and Easy” (2002) and “Light as Fuck (2001) are based upon a conviction that the lightness of the isolated exterior or interior is a source of interesting material. He perceives the weight of urban changes as an exterior phenomenon, and literally depicts the process as a weightless factor, turning urban landmarks upside down. |
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LIANG Shaoji
Nature Series No.29 2000 5 minutes 30 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 8 code: LSJU042 / id:8029 |
“Silk Worms” represent the nature, life, science, history and society. The silk worms span on the body of human with large sounds of spinning. It recalls the imagination to the short life. |
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LIANG Yue
There's a Christmas in Yang An 2007 12 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: LYU022 / id:8433 |
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ZHANG Ding
Pry-a 2005 29 minutes 54 seconds Video | Video installation | ongoing multi channel video installation various media code: ZDU034 / id:7768 |
In “Pry” (2005-ongoing) Zhang Ding explores the relationship between the viewer and the viewed, superiority and inferiority, exploiter and exploited. This is done with rare sensitivity and non-judgmental loyalty towards featured destinies, all of which share a common denominator of difference. These differences are manifested sexually, religiously and politically, and often with severe consequences to the protagonists. |
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SHI Qing
Black taboo series - Huangjue Ping 2002 23 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU063 / id:7220 |
In the “Black Taboo” series Shi Qing makes use of ancient mythologies that he ‘translates’ in t modern stories. Viewers encounter fragmentation: some of it coming from unreliable memories, some from worried imagination, and still more from the way in which he portrays the absurdity of everyday life by enlarging and reproducing the ordinary. |
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HU Jieming
The best strategy is to be on the move 2002 28 minutes 13 seconds Video | Single channel | code: HJMU030 / id:6871 |
There were over three thousand works on the art of war in ancient China, of which over a thousand have been preserved. The Thirty-six Tactics, believed to be compiled by Tan Dao Ji (circa A.D.?—A.D.436),living in the South and North Dynasties is a book that draws on the wisdom of ancient Chinese military thinking and on the lessons of actual military conflicts. It elaborates on the tactics of war, and the interrelationships between war, politics, and economy. As one the most important ancient Chinese works on the art of war, The Thirty-six Tactics has influenced the thinking of many Chinese and overseas military strategists and tacticians. The tactic of ‘on the move (escape, abandonment) is the last of the thirty-six tactics. It is actually a tactic of no tactics, to be entertained only as a last resort when there are no other tactics available. In actual practice, this tactic could mean a deliberate retreat to avoid fighting against a much stronger enemy, and to seek opportunities of beating a comeback. The video I am presenting centers on the theme of ‘move’, relating the social situation of contemporary China to the historical background of the Long March, the famed 10,000-mile strategic retreat by the Red Army of China in the Chinese Revolution. The materials that make up the video reflect aspects of the daily life of Chinese people, including intellectuals, government officials, laid-off workers, country folks working in cities, unlicensed business dealers, and the elderly. These people, though different from each other in their social status, are all confronted with the same difficult choice of ‘move’, in the wake of the social system reform and the decline of the state-owned enterprise in China. They are forced to give up much of what they are used to, willingly or unwillingly. In this process of ‘move’, what else are people left with, except a booming economy and an ever expanding cityscape? |
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YANG Zhenzhong
I will die (English/Spain/Chinese) 2003 Video | Single channel | Video Edition of 5 code: yzzv21 / id:4472 |
Yang Zhengzhong became famous in 2000 with his half-hour video “(I Know) I Will Die” that features short sequences in which a series of people speak the phrase "I will die" to the camera. It was included as a multi-channel projection at the 2007 Venice Biennale to great acclaim. It is a disconcerting, soberly presented film that confronts the viewer with existential questions. | |
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YANG Fudong
Siemens "S10" (ximenzi "S10"), 2003 8 minutes Video | Single channel | color Edition of 10 code: YFDv14 / id:3274 |
http://www.shanghart.com/artists/yangfudong/projects/S10.htm In “S10” (2003), two female office workers wearing uniforms covered in zippers, zip together their arms and various other parts of their bodies. At this point we have entered the realm of a modern-day Shan Hai Jing inhabited by "exaggerated" creatures, a realm that is at the same time a metaphorical expression of a new concept of "subject" that is in the process of evolving organically from the individual to the other, and to the group. If we are all interconnected, just how far does the territory of the "individual" extend? |
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YANG Fudong
My Heart Was Touched Last Year (Yang Fudong for CHANEL 'Mobile Art', 2008 2007 3 minutes 30 seconds Video | 2 screen/no sound 35mm film to DVD Black N'White Edition of 3 code: YFDU070 / id:7830 |
A work made for Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion. It perhaps to disscuss about the vacant of time. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
I will die 2006 20 minutes Video | Video installation | 10 screen video installation (2000-2006) Edition of 5 code: YZZU024 / id:6909 |
Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Korean, French, Dutch, Spanish, Arab, Italian, each part 7-20 min, created 2000-2006 installation shoots at http://www.yangzhenzhong.com/eng/zhanlan/2007-venice/index.htm Yang Zhengzhong became famous in 2000 with his half-hour video “(I Know) I Will Die” that features short sequences in which a series of people speak the phrase "I will die" to the camera. It was included as a multi-channel projection at the 2007 Venice Biennale to great acclaim. It is a disconcerting, soberly presented film that confronts the viewer with existential questions. |
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ZHAO Bandi
A tale of Love gone wrong for Pandaman (A Court Case Nov. 11th, 2003, And also a Story about the End of a Love Story) 2003 15 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 9 code: ZBD21 / id:2334 |
“A Tale of Love Gone Wrong for Pandaman,” is more than parody. In 2003, Zhao Bandi sued two media businesses for publishing his poster without acknowledging his copyright. During the hearing, Zhao Bandi sits, forlorn, with his Panda. At the end, he reads as evidence a letter from his ex-lover, in which she explains why she is leaving him. She describes Zhao Bandi’s relationship to the toy-panda as being sick, and denies that the SARS poster could have anything to do with his personality. Because of the letter (or despite it) Zhao Bandi wins the case. It’s reality that produces fiction that produces reality. |
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ZHANG Ding
Pry-z 2005 18 minutes 42 seconds Video | Video installation | ongoing multi channel video installation various media code: ZDU046 / id:9701 |
In “Pry” (2005-ongoing) Zhang Ding explores the relationship between the viewer and the viewed, superiority and inferiority, exploiter and exploited. This is done with rare sensitivity and non-judgmental loyalty towards featured destinies, all of which share a common denominator of difference. These differences are manifested sexually, religiously and politically, and often with severe consequences to the protagonists. |
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SUN Xun
Lie of Magician 2005 4 minutes 14 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU004 / id:7239 |
In ‘Magician’s Lie’ we see a single person covered in black paint while white tribal patterns continuously form various tattoos on his body. |
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XU Zhen
8848-1.86 (video) 2005 8 minutes 11 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: XZU062 / id:6292 |
In August 2005, Xu Zhen together with his team climbed the 8848.13 meters high Everest. They succeed in cutting the hill top and take it down from the mountain. His video installation “8.848-1.86” (2005) documents an expedition to Mount Everest. Here, Xu Zhen removed 1.86 meters of the mountain’s peak and transported it home to be exhibited in a large display cabinet. The video, among other allusions, is a subtle and humorous commentary on China’s policy of expansion. |
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LIANG Yue
The ghost upstairs 2001 1 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: LYU025 / id:8436 |
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YANG Zhenzhong
I will die - Chinese 2000 12 minutes Video | Single channel | Video Edition of 5 code: yzzv03 / id:4454 |
Yang Zhengzhong became famous in 2000 with his half-hour video “(I Know) I Will Die” that features short sequences in which a series of people speak the phrase "I will die" to the camera. It was included as a multi-channel projection at the 2007 Venice Biennale to great acclaim. It is a disconcerting, soberly presented film that confronts the viewer with existential questions. |
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LU Chunsheng
It's all Brother Wright's Fault 2002 15 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: LCS10 / id:4802 |
The film ‘It’s All Brother Wright’s Fault’ we follow the protagonist around town – the opening of the film starts with the guy peeing in his pants in front of a group of people. Later we see him as he attends a public bath-room where he gets beaten. In the closing scene the young man awakens in his bed that he has wed. The final scene shows the protagonist on a roof-top shouting to the world: “It’s all brother Wright’s fault…”. |
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A poetic film by Liang Yue. The movie depicts wandering, chasing and rest of three young men in a void city. | |
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HU Jieming
Up! Up! 2004 4 minutes 27 seconds Video | installation of interactive Edition of 5 code: HJMU016 / id:6370 |
This is a landscape style interactive video installation, I plan to make it outside of Shanghai Museum’s entrance. Use televisions to pile up into a column which is like a monument, the video is showing that there are four young people who are climbing up difficultly from bottom and until disappear from the top screen. During the climb, the climber and outside sound build an interactive relationship, when outside sound comes, the climber will have the different reaction. And according to sound’s different speed and volume, the climber will stop to climb and drop down. When sound stop, the climber continue climbing upwards. Computer program control this work’s operate and sound interactive, television set on the red metal frame and with waterproof cover. Computer output signal to television through the VGA lines, outer sound collector input sound signal to computer, the program according to those signals to output video signal, to achieve the aim of interaction. Equipment: a few of computers and televisions, red meal frame, outer sound collector, VGA and collecting lines, transparent waterproof covers. The aim of this project is to praise brave games. Use digital interactive technology to explain climb and monument’s relationship into the time sprit, personal willpower and environment factor. Move upwards not only need the spirit of advance bravely, and also the power from body, patient and technique, and the judgment of the environment. The climber excite when he see the cloud-kissing object, happy when the surface is tough and vertically, never give up and always keep going on. Do we need this spirit? |
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ZHANG Ding
The Dream of Yabulai 2008 385.0 * 972.0 * 972.0 cm (152" * 383" * 383") Other | Installation | wood construction, 9-channel video installation code: ZDU037 / id:8438 |
The dream of Yabulai Measurement, theorem, focus, resources, energy, poem, worship, rivalry, they are all the great elements of the construction of the history. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Don't Move 2001 Video | Multichannel | Video Installation, 12 monitors Edition of 5 code: yzzv10 / id:4461 |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Spring Story (siemens) 2003 12 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 10 code: yzzv24 / id:4475 |
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, its 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. |
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LIANG Shaoji
Nature No. 106 2007 240.0 * 240.0 cm (94" * 94") Other | Installation | silk, mirror, code: LSJU050 / id:9173 |
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SONG Tao
From Last Century 2004 13 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: STU006 / id:6563 |
The repetitive structure gains strength in quantity and the shift from quantitative change to qualitative change. But in the works of Liang Yue and Song Tao, the form of repetition and monotony that they used is looks like the true-life copy. |
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SONG Tao
The moment a man shoot another man 2003 500.0 * 300.0 cm (197" * 118") Other | Installation | 3x5m 15 pcs + 1 video (1min) code: ST07 / id:4790 |
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SHI Qing
When Zhuge Liang Meets Pandas 2007 35 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SQU081 / id:7489 |
Shi Qing’s recent film project “When Zhuge Liang Meets Panda” (2007) is an installation that consists of multiple videos along with photographs, light boxes, and sculptures. Here, the artist investigates the old tales of the famous Chinese philosopher and politician Zhuge Liang as well as the age-old myths about the Panda, China’s favorite national symbol. He mixes these two narratives into his own idiosyncratic tale thereby creating a parallel world of imagination. |
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SUN Xun
A war about Chinese words 2005 2 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU012 / id:7273 |
“A War About Chinese Words” is a black and white movie animation where Chinese characters morph and come alive as soldiers, animals and tanks. The characters enter into warfare and battle. |
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LIANG Yue
The light of sky 2002 10 minutes Video | Video installation | Edition of 2 code: LYU018 / id:8429 |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Sleepwalking is a therapy 1 1997 30 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 10 code: yzzv05 / id:4456 |
Sleepwalking Is A Therapy Video 30minutes 1997.8. Fix a video camera on remote control car,and the camera is moving ands shooting on the floor of an apartment house,the image and sound are not handled. |
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LIANG Shaoji
Natural Series No.25 1999 5 minutes 36 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 8 code: LSJU029 / id:7376 |
In 1999 Liang Shaoji made a video of himself walking barefoot on metal shavings, because he wanted to feel what the silkworms felt as they were crawling over them. (In 1992 Liang started to research how to make silkworms weave on metal shavings). He got a full truckload of shavings and spread them in the factory’s courtyard. The factory workers were his public. Liang: “I didn’t expect it to be so incredibly painful. The smaller the shavings, the more painful they were. There was no way out, no way to escape the pain except to go forward until I reached the end of the courtyard. I had to go to the hospital afterwards. During that performance I felt like any human being in distress who has no way to give up or to get out of the situation he is in, and still you have to go on living ...” |
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YANG Fudong
I love my motherland (wo ai wo de zhu guo) 1999 12 minutes Video | Multichannel | 5 Channel Video installation, b/w Edition of 5 code: YFDv003 / id:3252 |
In one of the short sequences comprising I Love My Motherland, a man performs a formless dance at an intersection. The picture is out of focus. Yang Fudong operates here, too, with the alienating possibilities of experi-mental ？lm, with short cuts and multiple exposures. |
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It’s a typical film of Song Tao, who recorded a back stage feature of an underground rock band. | |
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ZHU Jia
Never take off 2002 6 minutes Video | Single channel | 黑白，有声，black and white, sound Edition of 5 code: ZJU020 / id:8390 |
The plane’s running on the track forever. |
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CHEN Xiaoyun
Several moments reaching to the night -II 2004 11 minutes Video | Edition of 6 code: CXYU029 / id:7529 |
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Other Works
Knut Asdam, Oblique 2008 13 minutes Video | Single channel | code: SPEZIALU003 / id:9205 |
Oblique Oblique consists of dialogues (fiction) between various people traveling together through a meditative landscape and different urban locations. The conversations range from talks about the recent economic crash, to comments on other passengers, and mental powers. Referring to the title, something is strangely odd, sur-realistic, and out of the ordinary. |
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With the humorous march music, the guy who wears shirt, pants and hat was taking shower seriously. The movie seems to depict a change from a simple progress with clear destination to a fussy and self-amused action. | |
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In “Shouting” (1998), a moving crowd faces away from the camera until, startled by screams behind them, they spin around (a reaction that elicits laughs from whomever is behind the camera). | |
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YANG Fudong
The Half Hitching Post 2005 7 minutes Video | Single channel | 35mm color film transfered to DVD, music by Wang Wenwei Edition of 10 code: YFDU30 / id:6334 |
A beautiful panoramic landscape sets the scene for the narrative of “The Half Hitching Post”. Here, we see only fragments of two stories taking place simultaneously: Two different couples are being witnesses in their attempt to ascend a mountain on a sloped and steep road. The viewer is left unaware of the couple’s ultimate goal as they compete on reaching their destination. Focusing on the journey up-wards the shifting perspective of the camera depicts the mutual hindrances engaged by the couples to sabotage their opponent’s success on reaching their ？nal destination. Juxtaposing the race towards the top with the tranquility of the surrounding landscape lends the video a poetic vibe all its own. An Sai, Shanbei, An isolated village on the Loess Plateau, Northern China. Two young outsiders are moving in, While two young locals are struggling to escape. Comes into view a donkey full of luggage, Comes also into view a young couple, He carries her on a bike... ---- 4m screen, own room, 40-50m2, walls 70% black |
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ZHANG Enli
Light Bulb 2008 Other | Sculpture | Aluminum, diameter:30cm, width:45cm, 6 pieces code: ZELU309 / id:9226 |
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XU Zhen
Rainbow - Ed. 5 1998 3 minutes 50 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: XZ03 / id:2598 |
Xu Zhen started out making videos that focused on the body and public space in a manner reminiscent of early Bruce Nauman or Vito Acconci: For example, the four minute video “Rainbow” (1998) shows a person’s back growing increasingly red, the result of slaps heard on the sound track but never seen |
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The man whose leg cannot touch the land is wandering in the dark street, and the sound of barking at night keep going. Whether he is pleased with satisfaction or stressed of besieged? | |
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YANG Fudong
Lock Again (lu ke zai yu) 2004 3 minutes Video | Single channel | 16mm film transferred to DVD, sound by Miya Dudu Edition of 10 code: YFDv19 / id:4566 |
Two young men wear the uniform of 70’s policeman, sometimes they look like runaway criminal. They want to escape reality which is impossible to cast off. They yearn for the bright sunshine life, expecting the time to be captured, to exchange for a calmness of the heart. |
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YANG Fudong
Jiaer's Livestock (jia er de sheng kou) 2002 14 minutes Video | Multichannel | two channel video installation, 8 monitors, 2 suitcases Edition of 3 code: YFDv10 / id:3271 |
sound by Miya Dudu, finished 2005, wide screen 16:9, synchronized, needs carpets (dark grey) Jiaers’ Lifestock In two separate spaces two almost identical cinematic narratives unfold. Because of the wall separating them, we can not compare the two, and must call on our memory. Both spaces also contain a glass display cabinet with a suitcase full of books and neckties, and four small video monitors in it. The tangible objects and the monitors appear to connect with the large projections on the wall. (stedeliijk) |
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SHI Qing
Four appearances series - Got Fire 2003 7 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU067 / id:7224 |
The “Four Appearances” series consist of short stories centered around basic elements such as fire, water and the lotus. The films appear in both color and black-and-white footage showing young people on the beach, in the countryside, and in a bamboo forest. |
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SUN Xun
Mythos 2006 12 minutes 36 seconds Video | Single channel | in 2 parts (SXU007, SXU008) Edition of 6 code: SXU013 / id:7584 |
MYTHOS (2006) is a collage created with reference to personal memories as well as collective experiences. In the strange spatio-temporal image, the history has been cut into pieces. It seems that everyone is a king, everyone is a magician, and numberless chairs are there waiting while billows of flame are sweeping the brown old photos. The animation is a montage of history, and MYTHOS’ dictionary is, thus, a code full of questions. |
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The work QQ Fantasy is composed of moving parts of a stooping body and the construction under the city sky, which is put in alternating order. By changing the pictures continuously, the performances of the body are expressed through a series of illusory actions that get more intense as the performer is finally awaken. As to the installation method, the image reflects on white film, while the sound is spread through the bass loudspeaker affixed to the film. A concrete sound that is unanimous to the rhythm of the performance is overlapped purposefully with an illusory performance untouched with other subjects in this image. The subject expresses the content, under the circumstances, that desire can only be met by comforting oneself, which is both related and not related to the real life. |
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HU Jieming
The cities in the wind 2001 5 minutes 20 seconds Video | Single channel | code: HJMU031 / id:6872 |
Shoot at a map of china fluttering in the wind and thus the swaying cities on the map becomes the materials for the music this piece of piano music is the vivid reflection of the rocking dots and also the poems of actual life we are faced with. |
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LIANG Yue
A nap in the afternoon 2006 30 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: LYU019 / id:8430 |
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SHI Qing
Four appearances series - Rule of Mercury 2003 6 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU068 / id:7225 |
The “Four Appearances” series consist of short stories centered around basic elements such as fire, water and the lotus. The films appear in both color and black-and-white footage showing young people on the beach, in the countryside, and in a bamboo forest. |
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SUN Xun
New China 2008 5 minutes 19 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU129 / id:8939 |
All the inspirations from a small book called New China given by a friend of mine. The print time of this book is probably before the Second World War. This book is written by a missionary who lived in China for many years and knows China very well. The general content of this book is telling people how to love their country, how to construct their country, how to be a useful person and about China’s revolution at that time. Everyone knows that China is called New China after 1949. But there used to be the appellation. It is very interesting. After I read through this book, seeing China’s Modern history, I found this country actually runs around a circle. They can stop at any point to do some more valuable things. But maybe there are many unknown stories that behind it have changed its result. While what about China now? |
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The contents came from the postcard famous places in China. The several pictures imported to the computer were turned to be about 8 minutes video image by means of multimedia technology. In the video, it can be watched that the postcard staves drawn on were screened from right to left slowly. When the postcard moves to the middle of the screen, the most part of the outline of the picture will be dotted by different color. The music is composed according to the dots on the staves and played by various instruments. | |
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TANG Maohong
Orchid Finger 2004 8 minutes 12 seconds Video | Multichannel | 3 screen animation film installation, sound by Jin Feng Edition of 8 code: TMHU006 / id:5691 |
animation film installation (3 channels ), silkscreen prints (12 pic) projectors: 3 (3000 lumens, same brand) DVD player: 3 (made by same brand) speakers : 3 pairs ( same brand) size of every single round diameter: 160CM Every DVD should be play at same time and auto loop. It is keypoint for installation. |
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LIANG Yue
Daughter 2006 8 minutes 4 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: LYU005 / id:7229 |
The very beautiful short film ‘Daughter’ features a young woman who wanders around town until her attention is suddenly drawn to a colorful plastic flower in a shop window. In the next scene we see her at the terrace burning the traditional silver slips of paper to worship the dead – with the plastic flower sitting in the back-ground. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Light and Easy 2 2002 5 minutes 12 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 10 code: yzzv15 / id:4466 |
“Light and Easy” (2002) and “Light as Fuck (2001) are based upon a conviction that the lightness of the isolated exterior or interior is a source of interesting material. He perceives the weight of urban changes as an exterior phenomenon, and literally depicts the process as a weightless factor, turning urban landmarks upside down. |
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LIANG Yue
I love Oleander 2007 22 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: LYU024 / id:8435 |
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A piece of ray is a whip, and the time is an individual religion. Here is a path of mountains, and an exhausted man who is towing a tree from the bottom to the top of the hill. It will be a highly intense flashlight in one second. This is a myth of an innermost being of a person, mostly about struggle and expiation .So the memory of them is not coherent, and the desire is the most brilliant thing, recurrent fate is whipped time and time again. | |
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A Santa Claus with four thugs, a demented “Holy Night”, a sort of slapstick, results to a perfect misery. In the dim dirty machinery room, everyone seems to be symbolized as a delicate part of the running steam machine—the fate. | |
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XU Zhen
Road show 2000 Video | Multichannel | 3 channel video installation Edition of 5 code: XZ17 / id:2612 |
Xu Zhen made himself a rap singer and showing on the three screens at the same time.But audiences only heard his weak moaning of making love.With the comeing of climax,the audiences down the stage seems to become more and more excited screaming and while lacking of their appearance. |
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It's a film of preposterous, however, with a hue of heorism too. The young men protect the flag that tailored with abandoned clothes on the roof top of a compound in Shanghai. | |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Massage Chairs - Then Edison's Direct Current was surrendered To the Alternating Current 2003 Other | Installation | massage chairs code: yzz43 / id:4581 |
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“Lie” is set in a space only inhabited by a character wearing a tall magician’s hat. The space is lit up from outside by the moon that shines through the barred window frames. Inside, the walls suddenly come to live, and strange creatures morph into bombs and bonfires. | |
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SONG Tao
4.7G-02- Yard 2005 9 minutes 40 seconds Video | Single channel | Song Tao & B6 Edition of 5 code: STU004 / id:6403 |
yard：produced between January to March in 2006，it’s the second video which belong to <<4.7G>>-the cooperation project by B6 and Song Tao，music produced by B6，directed by Song Tao. The length is 9 minutes. Song Tao and B6's Yard comprises three interrelated elements:an lelctronic music soundtrack by B6,which was the starting point for the work;a projected video film(9'25" in duration)of digitally overlain and juxtaposed moving colour images made by Song Tao in response to B6's music representing differing aspects of the urban environment in contemporary Shanghai,including nocturnal street scenes,B6 in a Moog t-shirt with headphones around his neck and finally a ballet dancer practicing in a dance studio tracked closely by a cameraman whose image is reflected by the studio's mirrored wall;and a staged environment for the viewing of the work. |
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SUN Xun
Utopia in the Day 2004 4 minutes 41 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU006 / id:7241 |
“Utopia in the Day” presents a marionette theater – here, the characters are controlled by a puppet master in the character of a skeleton. Alas, death controls the living. |
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Other Works
Yutaka Sone, Six Floor Jungle 2008 150.0 * 72.0 * 63.0 cm (59" * 28" * 25") Other | Sculpture | 白色大理石雕塑/white marble sculpture Edition of 3 code: OTHERU030 / id:9183 |
Six Floor Jungle Yutaka Sone's work deal with our relationship to nature and the built environment. With 'Six Floor Jungle' he created a utopian structure, partly apartment-building, partly jungle. He aims to bring people closer to nature through his animistic sculptures and installations. |
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Cutting the night sky, cutting the perfusion tube, cutting the insects, cutting the lips, cutting the universe from segments reverts a broken site. | |
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SHI Yong
Think carefully, where have you been yesterday? 2007 Video | Multichannel | code: SYU022 / id:7732 |
Shi Yong’s extensive video project “Think Carefully, Where Were You Yesterday” (2007 – ongoing) deals with the ‘politics of representation’: The videos have deep personal perspectives and consist of interviews conducted with minorities that seldom have a voice of their own in China’s public realm. Neglected and ignored identities such as AIDS victims, prostitutes, political activists, homosexuals and drug addicts are being thoroughly questioned about their existence, their desires and defeats. Contrasting the disturbing narratives of exclusion, the aesthetic and the visual language of the videos consist of calm b/w close-ups focusing on every little expression of the inter-viewees. The outcome is a touching non-judgmental documentation of marginalized realities in today’s China. |
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YANG Fudong
Honey (mi) 2003 9 minutes 29 seconds Video | Single channel | color, sound by Miya Dudu Edition of 10 code: YFDv11 / id:3272 |
This video appears to be a humorous stylistic reference to spy films. All the clichés – tension, eroticism, grave, cigarette-smoking men and atmospheric music – are present. The woman wears fishnet hose and a fur coat with her military uniform. This ambiguity of seduction and deceit is not only the earmark of espionage, but possibly also a metaphor for the present ambivalent situation in China. |
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There are many fanciful craving in the city, for this is a nest for others; a dejected young drifter appears amongst the fleeting figures in the cityscape, yearning to capture his own shadow in the sky. He muses: “I much rather I am a power plug, with the city being a gigantic socket board, having wires running through the sky.” Everyone is a prisoner with no exceptions. This is a city built according to the model of electricity flow. Each feedback and loop of the electrical wave will serve to delineate its silhouette of twinkling skyline; from an open vista through the thinly diluted suburban air, each expansive breath of the metropolis can be observed to be thriving on the desires of every one of its inhabitants. Rays of dim light shooting past clusters of dwelling are catching the struggling figures down below，the variegated dusk sky is starting to quiver and becoming more and more flickering while the twisting skyline manages to keep its composure despite the burning passions it inhabits. City, is a rearing ground of immense proportion, it relies upon the desires of its people to continue to outstretch its symbiosis needs. He, on the other hand, is simply standing here, ogling at the sky, with faith on the desires that perpetually hang in the distant horizon; he lowers his head, awaiting the onset of another nightmare. Suddenly, I seem to have slipped into the domain of all those mysterious desires in the sky through the tangles of black and white wires laid out beside me, I can envision an electrical controlled gateway sliding open above my head, within which resides an all powerful overlord who commands all the craving and desires of the city. I pull myself up from the mud pool, crawl along the riverbed to break the surface in the water, as I step off the No.28 bus I slide down the side of the bus stop sign like a drop of morning dew; looking up to the dizzying sky, I can feel a switch embedded in my head that controls the pictures streaming through my mind; up I climb a flight of stairs, before it is time to charge back down another, I eventually climbed up to the top of the tallest building in the city, … waiting, awaiting a ray of light, a flash of lightning… at this moment, my sight is like a thumbtack, it presses itself firmly into the softest spot of the city; I shut my eyes to listen to the prefect synchrony of electricity currents ebbing and flowing through the sky. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Don't Move 2006 500.0 * 40.0 * 10.0 cm (197" * 16" * 4") Other | Installation | 12DVD Edition of 3 code: YZZU020 / id:6684 |
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Other Works
Luc Tuymans, Against the Day 1 2008 224.0 * 174.0 cm (88" * 69") Painting | Oil on canvas | code: OTHERU028 / id:9165 |
Luc Tuymans Against the Day I 'Against the Day' is derived from two sources: from a snapshot photography Tuymand shot in his hometown Antwerp, and a painting 'Der Jagdaufseher' (1883) by Flemish painter Ferdinand Knopf. In this painting, Tuyman's finds "reality without romanticism - a rationality of anonymity" which is very much similar to Tuyman's own paintings. His paintings are seemingly calm, but always imbued with quiet paranoia and horror. The paintings are strangely 'vacant', filled with amounts of sublimated violence. |
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YANG Fudong
Backyard - Hey! Sun is rising (hou fang - hei, tian liang le) 2001 13 minutes Video | Single channel | 35 mm b&w film transferred to DVD, sound by Zhou Qing Edition of 10 code: YFDv002 / id:3251 |
Backyard - Hey, Sun is Rising! Four men engage in acts simultaneously. They smoke, yawn, massage themselves and practice military exercises in a city and in a park. The seriousness with which they perform these acts contrasts with their pointlessness, which creates the effect of slapstick. Yang Fudong reveals that because of social changes, certain rituals have become totally meaningless. |
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SHI Qing
Four appearances series - No Lotus in Winter 2003 11 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU066 / id:7223 |
The “Four Appearances” series consist of short stories centered around basic elements such as fire, water and the lotus. The films appear in both color and black-and-white footage showing young people on the beach, in the countryside, and in a bamboo forest. |
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TANG Maohong
Sunday 2006 6 minutes Video | Multichannel | 5 channel video installation Edition of 5 code: TMHU013 / id:6990 |
The video installation “Sunday” (2006) is full of witty grotesquerie. The pieces are composed within circular frames, thus referencing traditional Chinese bird and flower paintings. Upon closer inspection however, Tang Maohong’s various scenes of flowers, pagodas and mushrooms display an aesthetic that is as far removed from a traditional composed still leben as imaginable. Here, a surreal universe of people, animals and plants interact and converge in orgiastic and explicit scenes that carry a humorous legibility all their own. |
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HU Jieming
Subjunctive Mood 1996 4 minutes 50 seconds Video | Multichannel | Two channels Edition of 5 code: HJMU029 / id:6870 |
Two Channels Video Chinese and western announcer Re-edit actor's lines Simulcast |
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YANG Fudong
Liu Lan (liu lan) 2003 14 minutes Video | Single channel | 35 mm b&w film transferred to DVD, Sound by Zhou Qing Edition of 10 code: YFDv007 / id:3256 |
Liu Lan tells a story about the break with tradition in China. An intellectual in a white suit meets a traditionally dressed woman in the countryside. Despite their mutual love, their lives seem incompatible. A woman’s voice sings a folksong, Why are people in love always separated from one another?’ The film’s atmosphere is melancholy and the landscape veiled in mist. Here Yang Fudong shows his connections with Chinese landscape painting. |
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LIANG Shaoji
Natural Series No.24,25 1999 1800.0 * 800.0 * 700.0 cm (709" * 315" * 276") Other | Installation | Installation, two videos, metal shavings, metal frame, silk, 录像，金属刨花，铁架 code: LSJU020 / id:7305 |
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YANG Fudong
Minor Soldier YY's Summer (xiao bing YY de xia tian) 2003 20 minutes Video | Multichannel | 3 channel video installation Edition of 5 code: YFDv18 / id:4565 |
better common soldier sound by Miya Dudu |
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XU Zhen
18 Days 2006 23 minutes 56 seconds Video | Single channel | DVD Edition of 5 code: XZU090 / id:6790 |
“18 Days” records a trip that the artist underwent with the goal of crossing the borders of China’s neighboring countries with remote controlled toy weapons. Xu Zhen bought some remote control weapons. Then on the boundary line between China and neighbouring countries, he remote controlled these toy weapons entering into neighbouring countries. The documentary in this work recorded the whole course in 18 days. |
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SUN Xun
Shock of Time 2006 5 minutes 29 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU002 / id:7237 |
The memory is empty, when man gets into a state of shock. The shock of time can also called the shock of history. The most important element of this work is some old paper from 50's and 60's. The papers recorded some important information of China. To me, it has become history which I can never get close to. For this reason, I can only use my work turned this history into a doubtful legend. Our conception of history has been twisted passively or voluntarily. There are lies, secrets or maybe farces behind all these things. Maybe it is just the real history. History is how we think but not what it is. Even we have archeology and museum, we still sorrow when we face the real history. |
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SUN Xun
Heroes No Longer 2007 9 minutes 4 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU083 / id:8030 |
'Hero' is a kind of histroical complex, this complex lead to the transitions of our history. But they are usually ridiculous. "history" meane to us more likely a sort of impression, or a virtual reality. |
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An Animal” (2006): This three-channel video installation shows a panda variously ejaculating (with the assistance of a group of men, faces digitally blurred) and sleeping. | |
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LU Chunsheng
Before the Appearance of the First Steam Engine 2003 35 minutes Video | Single channel | DVD Edition of 5 code: LCS09 / id:4801 |
Lu Chunsheng’s film-work Before the Appearance of the First Steam Engine, 2003, is a deft commentary of contemporary China , mixing a socialist's dream, a dark underworld, and a quest for wealth. Like his fellow countryman Yang Fudong, Lu Chunsheng's films show the influence of French new wave cinema. Until 2000, foreign films were largely unavailable in China with the result that Chinese artists view Western cinema history with fresh eyes. |
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YANG Fudong
Robber South (dao nan) 2001 18 minutes Video | Single channel | color, sound Edition of 10 code: YFDv009 / id:3258 |
In a scene from “Robber South” (2001), which tells the story of a young man in the city making a living as a fruit seller while dreaming of becoming a businessman, the protagonist watches as a subway train pulls into a station, and in an instant the focus of his attention switches seamlessly to a deep blue sky. Compass in hand, he walks from house to house, tracing each door and wall with his fingers, a metaphor for his search for his own place in the city. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
922 Rice Corns 2000 7 minutes 58 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 10 code: yzzv01 / id:4452 |
The video "922 Grains of Rice" plays with the interaction of the image of a cock and a chicken pecking grains of rice and the sound of a male and a female voice counting the number of pecked grains. It is a humorous representation of the battle of sexes as well a comment on today’s competitive behavior. |
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The video documents 'The Knickerbocker Greys', which is a historic after-school leadership program for children and teenagers in NYC. Featuring the Knickerbocker Greys, a paramilitary drill club for children that has practiced at the Park Avenue Armory since 1881, McCorkle explores the club’s weekly pageant (they're marching, therefore the title), highlighting the neo-gothic interiors of this historic building. The video is of course remarkable because it's children 'playing out' military exercises. | |
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Zhang Dings’s most recent film “Great Era” (2007) is a surrealistic Fellini-inspired voyage using Shanghai as its theatrical backdrop. The protagonist rides along staged tableaus with his bike (disguised as a horse) in scenes perfectly synchronized with the film’s sound score. | |
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ZHOU Tiehai
Will/We Must 1996 9 minutes 17 seconds Video | Single channel | b&w, silent, 35 mm movie tranfered on DVD Edition of 5 code: zth014 / id:4061 |
Zhou Tiehai’s film “Will/We Must” (1996) shows the artist’s vengeance and attitude towards the self-absorbed art market. The 10-minutes film is a witty critique of the Chinese art scene and its sucking up to foreign curators who, as medical doctors, examine and treat the Chinese artists as patients. His work’s power to amaze and provoke is the result of a host of strategies that mix antagonism with sincerity. http://www.shanghartgallery.com/artists/zhoutiehai/will.htm |
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LU Chunsheng
Trotzky murdered in Summer, Gentlemen in Financial Circles got more Depressed 2003 22 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: LCS08 / id:4800 |
In Murdered Trotsky in Summer, Gentlemen in Financial Circles Got More Depressed, scenes of a modern-day corporate environment are cut with the enactment of a murder. Not following the actual circumstance of Trotsky's death, the scenes played out by the costumed young men are something more like a sketchily-remembered idea. While the bulk of the action is in black and white, a colour sequence folows in a more obviously contemporary setting; the young men walk through the streets raging and shouting. Little is resolved, and the viewer is left with the sense that they are as perplexed by the slipperiness of collective memory as they are by the murder. |
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The video Forever (1994) was done by attaching a video camera to the left wheel of a tricycle. The lens was oriented outward. Switched on the camera, I rode this tricycle 10 km along the city’s streets. The camera was circulating along with the motion of the tricycle and recording turning-around images.’ | |
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SONG Tao
4.7G-01 (Three Days Ago) 2004 8 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: STU003 / id:6392 |
Song Tao’s film noir “Three Days Ago” (2005) is a poetic venture into the nighttime terrain of Shanghai. Along the way, the viewer glimpses certain recurring leitmotivs, such as a child playing hopscotch, a brightly lit highway tunnel and a haunting building. An electronic score that plays throughout lends the film a flowing rhythm all its own. The loop-like structure encourages the viewer to focus increasingly on the atmosphere rather than over-all narrative plot. The elliptical repetition also builds suspense that seems to accumulate towards the end. The dramatic scenes appear eternally; the urban nightly journey could take place anywhere, anytime. Song Tao presents a slice of reality as kinetic views of urban space and fragments of memory. About the project of “4.7G”：Beginning 2004, I have cooperated music short video with Shanghai electronic music person-B6. We aperiodically do the new short music video until the totally added data is equally 4.7GB，also the capability of one DVD is 4.7G. three days ago： produced between April to May in 2004，it’s the first video which belong to <<4.7G>>-the cooperation project by B6 and Song Tao，music produced by B6，directed by Song Tao. The length is 8’30 minutes. |
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Born with physical disability and mental anguish, the unfortunate man bark to everything that against his fate. At least, this is still a living body with desire. In the black video fulfilled with violence and irony, “scene” & “fate”—the key words of CHEN Xiaoyun reflected everywhere. | |
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YANG Fudong
East of Que Village 2007 20 minutes 50 seconds Video | Multichannel | 6 screen b&w, HDV 拍摄 (to be projected on detached screens, space 70% black) Edition of 6 code: YFDU065 / id:6941 |
“East of Que Village” centres on an untamed and untethered pack of dogs, surviving at the most basic level of existence, in an arid, desolate, and unforgiving expanse of northern Chinese landscape. A handful of humans also appear, engaged in their own dogged battle for survival. The work questions the value of life in contemporary China, and the desires an individual has a right to expect from his or her existence. It is perhaps Fudong’s most personal film to date, drawing on the bitter and cold feelings that he associates with the rural China of his childhood, and which embody for him a sense of isolation and loss that is increasingly present within society. |
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YANG Fudong
An Estranged Paradise (mo sheng tian tang) 2002 76 minutes Video | Single channel | 35 mm b&w film transferred to DVD Edition of 10 code: YFDv012 / id:3259 |
1997-2002 sound by Jin Wang Camera Wang Yi For “An Estranged Paradise” (which took five years to edit), Yang Fudong yielded to his trademark fascination for crisp, moody, black-and-white 35mm cinematography. The film starts with a meditation on the composition of space in Chinese painting. It then nonchalantly wanders through the streets, railroad tracks, apartment buildings, waterfront and outskirts of the southern city of Hangzhou, following the protagonist's emotional vicissitudes. There are shades of Jim Jarmusch, of Godard's “Breathless” and allusions to 1930s Shanghai cinema. More importantly, Yang uses camera, lighting and cinematic space to outline the internal landscape of Chinese modernity. |
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HUANG Kui
Rooms 1203 and 1407 Hide Secrets Which Cannot Be Revealed 2007 4 minutes 48 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: HKU012 / id:7998 |
The movie is from the same named installation work by Huang Kui. It seems that enigma exists in Room 1203 and Room 1407. |
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HU Jieming
From Architectural Immanence 2002 6 minutes 25 seconds Video | Single channel | code: HJMU020 / id:6861 |
The video presented the situation which can see everywhere in China. On the one hand there are more and more Chinese old houses are being destroyed and international style new buildings are being established. On the other hand many new buildings have Chinese traditional elements. I used images of old and new buildings in the video and tried to create music from the outline of the buildings. |
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ZHANG Ding
Boxing No. 1 & 2 2007 3 minutes Video | Multichannel | 2 channel video Edition of 5 code: ZDU025 / id:7386 |
Zhang Ding’s double-channel video installation Boxing I & II (2007) is a beautifully cruel experience to endure. The two films depict a young man dressed in a lucid t-shirt – the artist himself – in a dark space, confronted only by a punching bag composed of three round cacti with sharp spiky thorns. The first film consists of close-ups of the boxer’s clenched fists as he hits the cutting cactus, increasingly hurting himself until his fists are intensely bleeding, while the cactus is still intact and un-defeated. In the second film the space has widened, and the artist’s body and the sharp punching bag is emphasized with chiaroscuro effects in a dramatic light-darkness tableau. The boxer is seen striking and hitting the cutting thorns with quick painful punches in an ever-ending looped fight. Violent and vehement, the boxer fights in vain against an otherwise fragile species - it’s a contest he can never overcome. |
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Through the introduction of background, history and relationship between humanbeings of Beijing botanical garden, artist hope the appearance of a new botanical garden. The botanical garden is focus on people’s life, local plants and for public space. | |
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LU Chunsheng
History of Chemistry 2004 29 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 7 code: LCS07 / id:4799 |
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SHI Qing
Black taboo series - Moxi Town 2002 11 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU062 / id:7219 |
In the “Black Taboo” series Shi Qing makes use of ancient mythologies that he ‘translates’ in t modern stories. Viewers encounter fragmentation: some of it coming from unreliable memories, some from worried imagination, and still more from the way in which he portrays the absurdity of everyday life by enlarging and reproducing the ordinary. |
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The swift imagination that the artists gripped in their trip to Britain was transformed into this video. A blank board with two conceptual hand writing Chinese words “Feng Jing” (landscape) was settled as the background of the photograph series. Couples of British local residents were invited to join the photography project to present themselves like a typical tourist. The project just seems to simplify an awful scenic place and boring tourist photos. | |
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SHI Qing
Black taboo series - Zhoukou Dian 2002 9 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU064 / id:7221 |
In the “Black Taboo” series Shi Qing makes use of ancient mythologies that he ‘translates’ in t modern stories. Viewers encounter fragmentation: some of it coming from unreliable memories, some from worried imagination, and still more from the way in which he portrays the absurdity of everyday life by enlarging and reproducing the ordinary. |
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CHEN Xiaoyun
Several moments reaching to the night 2002 11 minutes 30 seconds Video | Edition of 6 code: CXYU037 / id:7541 |
Similar to the memory clips, the boring action and back ground music of fickleness made up the video stream. We try to oblivion what we considered useless, but they rooted in. Reluctantly mechanic memory and the scary of delusion of persecution constitute the rest of our mental world. The video is made of some meaningless scenario,a dark mood,mischievous playable,and mechanical fool.When the night is coming,all the feelings combine together and it seems someone is looking for the endless stories. |
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LU Chunsheng
History of Chemistry 2 Excessively Restrained Mountaineering Enthusiasts 2006 95 minutes Video | Single channel | sound by B6 and IZ, 16:9,DV cam Edition of 5 code: LCSU002 / id:6599 |
Lu Chunsheng’s highly distinctive feature length film “History of Chemistry II” is staged in vacant spaces where the protagonists seem lost or detached from reality, wandering around like somnambulant sleep-walkers. Correspondingly, the most significant aspect of the film is its absence of any clear narrative, instead the film is structured around repetition: In Beckett-like absurd scenes we witness the characters repeating actions that make no obvious sense. The performances are perfectly synchronized to the sound score composed by B6. The film’s odd charisma clearly plays homage to the surrealist works of Fellini and Bunuel. |
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SUN Xun
Requiem-Magician 2007 x 21 Pieces Painting | Drawings | Animationed Drawing code: SXU150 / id:9193 |
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LU Chunsheng
The Curve which can Cough 2001 8 minutes 32 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: LCSU001 / id:4838 |
The film ‘The Curve which Can Cough’ is filmed from a bird’s perspective in slow-motion, held in black-and-white. All the film depicts is a performance of people forming a curve or, a continuous bending line, moving slowly around in a parking lot. |
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SONG Tao
The moment a man shoot another man 2003 1 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: STU008 / id:6591 |
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LIANG Yue
People Talking AIDS 2006 2 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: LYU011 / id:8422 |
A Gossip about aids. |
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YANG Zhenzhong
Let's puff 2002 6 minutes 58 seconds Video | Multichannel | 2-channel video installation Edition of 5 code: yzzv14 / id:4465 |
Let's Puff” (4th Shanghai Biennale, Zone of Urgency, 50th Venice Biennial) similarly starts from the interplay of two images: a young woman puffing and a busy street. Every time the woman breathes, the image of the street moves away from the viewer. The rhythm of the traffic and the angle of perception are altered with the rhythm of the woman's breath. View Details |
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The item in the water is the basic clueto this work.It states the mutually dependent,dialectical relationship between the two,dimly revealed in all sorts of feelings and experiences in the space that inhabit.The different experiences of the item,which is individual,vis the water ,which is its environment,show the state of feeble helplessness and docile manipulability which constitute all the enticement and bewilderment of individual existence against the background of contemporary society. | |
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YANG Fudong
No Snow on the Broken Bridge 2006 11 minutes Video | Multichannel | 8 screen, 35mm b&w film transferred to DVD, music by Jin Wang Edition of 6 code: YFDv23 / id:5791 |
4:3, synchronized, 8 screens arranged in half round, size of screen 260cmx411cm, floor area around 10 m x 20 m “No Snow on the Broken Bridge” (2006): a freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed in a haberdasher’s ？nest, look outward from a rocky outcrop; boats slowly drifting across placid waters; lush, unpopulated landscapes dominated by mountains. Like all of Yang Fudong’s work, the narrative is loosely structured, favoring centripetal forces over linear paths. Here, glamorous young men and women are slowly pulled together as, alone or in pairs and quartets, they wend their way toward the eponymous bridge to catch a last glimpse of winter snow; the rabbits, parrots, and stubborn goats on leashes that accompany them hint at the dandyish excess of a bygone era. |
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SUN Xun
Requiem 2007 7 minutes 21 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU003 / id:7238 |
“Requiem” is an apocalyptic story about a world in despair, streets are burning and giant mosquitos flying above the city as helicopters ready for attack. |
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Other Works
Armen Eloyan,Untitled 2008 100.0 * 120.0 cm (39" * 47") Painting | Oil on canvas | code: OTHERU033 / id:9198 |
(dog)100cm x 120 Armen Eloyan For his motifs Armen Eloyan often turns to folk-art and folklore, basing his paintings at times on 19th century Eastern European woodcuts and embroidery with representations of fairy-tales and stories, or on animation movies, comic strips and other popular art forms. His paintings are very expressive with strong colors, but with an under-current of something dark and scary. |
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Pavel Büchler, The Castle 2008 Other | Installation | sound installation, text code: SPEZIALU005 / id:9207 |
The Castle In this particular piece Pavel Buchler uses a quotation from Franz Kafka’s 'The Castle', a quintessential text about estrangement, labyrinthine bureaucracy, and its control systems. The short section chosen by Buchler recounts the resentment with which the locals suffer Josef K’s presence in the village. It includes the words of a village landlady: “You are not from the Castle, you are not from the village, you aren’t anything. Or rather, unfortunately, you are something, a stranger, a man who isn’t wanted ...”. 'The Castle' is about the struggle to fit in and its failure. Booming out through the old loud-speakers, the text recalls old factory or street propaganda announcements, this one declaring that assimilation is impossible and the stranger will always remain on the outside. Kafka's 'The Castle' was published in 1936 in Prague (same year as the production of the Marconi loud-speakers in Italy), a time of growing fascism and depression in Europe leading up to the second world war (1939-1945). |
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TANG Maohong
Trailer(Jeonju International Film Festival) 2007 Video | Single channel | code: TMHU014 / id:7307 |
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ZHU Jia
Double Landscape 2002 10 minutes Video | 16毫米胶片，彩色，无声，16mm film projection，color , no sound Edition of 5 code: ZJU021 / id:8391 |
The film shows a young man drinking coffee in front of a windows though which the landscape of a modern city can be seen. A lady,standing motionless,seems to be serving the man.Although it is difficult to realize for the viewer,she is actually a dressed mannequin. |
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SONG Tao
4.7G-03-Four Countries 2007 6 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: STU012 / id:7454 |
This is the third work by 4.7G.In the background music made by B6,five youngsters gathered together,playing military chess,talking,smoking and joking that showed an easy,daily life. |
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The film is consisted of hundred of link-number 100 Yuan RMB, among which were delicate differences. | |
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SHI Yong
Continuous 2004 8 minutes 18 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 10 code: sy21 / id:509 |
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YANG Fudong
After all I didn't force you (wo bing fei qiang po ni) 1998 2 minutes 30 seconds Video | Single channel | color, sound Edition of 5 code: YFDv004 / id:3253 |
After All, I Didn’t Force You (1998), single channel video, 2’, ed. of 5 “After All I Didn’t Force You” (1998), are implicitly a reaction to the forms of individualism in a developing modern mass society. Yang Fudong strings together takes with different characters so quickly one after the other that they “lose face.” A man explains to a woman the sentence"I didn't force you". Separate movements of 12-14 people are combined/cut to form a fictive man who repeats the words "I didn't force you" to a woman. |
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Projector project a dog's image onto the screen from backside, the screen is the entrance of the exhibition hall. When audience comes into the hall, dog lookup and watch all around. When audiences comes closer, the dog aggressively dash out and yap, when audience comes more closer, dog back off and make the temporize gesture and then go bacd to sleep. |
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SONG Tao
A kind of format 2003 15 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: ST06 / id:4789 |
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SUN Xun
Coal Spell 2008 7 minutes 56 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 6 code: SXU130 / id:8949 |
About Coal Incantation: When we sleep deeply, everything becomes history. ---Sun Xun Coal Spell, inspired by this old five Yuan RMB note, is an account of the rise and fall of Fuxin, an old industrial coal city located in northeastern China. As a result of the experiences and nostalgia of his upbringing, the artist began to question both History and Power: In a mysterious dark city, yellow sand storms wreak havoc. Several huge smokestacks located in the middle of the city pierce the sky, emitting black fumes, which blanket the sun. The sound of doctrine rings out daily in order to banish various curiosities about this world. The city is a tremendous prison where history is boxed up like a monster – a brutal, fierce monster. One particular day, people were forcing the screaming Soviet Union excavator to clumsily open the skin of the land, gradually closing the heart of the city…even the changes of history can be closely watched. People’s money, pattern is just the illustration… |
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SHI Qing
Four appearances series - Water 2003 13 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: SQU065 / id:7222 |
The “Four Appearances” series consist of short stories centered around basic elements such as fire, water and the lotus. The films appear in both color and black-and-white footage showing young people on the beach, in the countryside, and in a bamboo forest. |
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Hipic.org
Hipic Night (the 24h of the 1.Hipic day' 60 minutes Video | Single channel | Edition of 5 code: HPU003 / id:8036 |
Hipic Night - Launch of Hipic Sept 4, 2007 at 2x3 meter outside screen in M50 (video: 24h of the first day) |
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LIANG Yue
Travelling Day 2006 19 minutes 30 seconds Video | Single channel | Edition of 3 code: LYU006 / id:7453 |
‘Travelling Day’ is played out as a documentary movie among a vast group of friends. The group travels from Shanghai to a beach for some leisure time. We witness the young people fooling round, plying with some dogs, drinking beer, throwing stones into the water. It’s a subtle portrait of everyday things in the life of ordinary young people. |
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YANG Fudong
City Light (cheng shi zhi guang) 2000 6 minutes Video | Single channel | video, colour, sound Edition of 10 code: YFDv001 / id:3250 |
City Lights Yang Fudong regularly makes use of characteristic film genres. For example, City Lights is a mixture of the detective film and slapstick. A young, well-dressed office clerk and his doppelg？nger move in unison along the street and around the office. Like pre-programmed robots they fit perfectly into their apparently ideally organised environment. The day is entirely dominated by work, but the evening provides space for dreams and creative thinking, allowing a schizophrenic situation to arise. In their heroic conduct the two gentlemen sometimes develop into two gangsters who engage in a form of shadowboxing. www.stedelijk.nl |
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