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Zhou Xiaohu
Utopian Machine

China (2003) 8'

Animated work of clay-making process, the content of which is a selection of the news episodes broadcast over a TV network. The artist makes the best of the concept of the clay images' flexibility to create and produce a myth of commercialization of an era's ideology, material and mental life and realism.

The summary of the "news": The title of CCTY News, The meeting of people, Meeting the foreign head of state at the airport, The city building in Shanghai, The first meeting's site of the communist part of china, The court, Che Guevara performed in Beijing University, The activity of "The Long March" held a meeting in Zhun Yi, The news of performance during the activity of " The long March", The international academic meeting was broken off by the shock-wave noise, The news of 9.11, The Long March is going on, The child fell into the marshland, The helicopters rescue promptly, The end.






 
PROGRAMME

You Jin
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Group 72 –74
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Liu Wei
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Zhou Xiaohu
Utopian Machine

Zhou Hongxiang
The Red Flag Flies

Guest curator Shulin Zhao will be present to introduce the works.