Jiang Jie's work has been named "Julia Smith Mullican."
It is a baby girl.

The adoptive parents, Valerie Smith (Exhibition Director,Queens Museum of Art)
and Matt Mullican (artist), fill in the adoption form

Lu Jie reads the adoption agreement to the couple.

Qin Ga's work, "Miniature Long March," exhibited in New York City

In his work, "Miniature Long March," Qin Ga has tattooed the route of the Long March on his back.

Qin Ga's work is projected on the large entrace door of the gallery. The map of China and the
route of the Long March appear and dissapear as the reflection of light changes.

Ethan Cohen introduces Jiang Jie's work to Dr. Vishakha N. Desai,
(Senior Vice President and Director of the Museum and Cultural Programs at Asia Society)

A group photograph has been taken with
an audience as witness to the adoption of the baby

"The Long March - A Walking Visual Display" in New York City

　　As stressed many times in our Long March discourse, the Long March is a multifaceted art project in which a conjugation of various points, lines, and aspects would be realized. The Long March is an exhibition about exhibitions. It is not an exhibition in the traditional sense, with artworks hanging in a fixed space, both literally and metaphorically. It expands the notion of human display culture through the juxtaposition of temporality and permanence. It is a creative curatorial endeavor that opens up dynamic relationships between artist, artwork, audience, time and space.
As we insisted recently on the letter released to the public, the Long March will never be completed, and it has now marched into New York City. During the Asian Art Week from November 7 until 13, the Long March will enter another space - Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, situated between Chinatown and the gallery district. In accordance with Asian Contemporary Art Week, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts presents works by Song Dong, Qiu Zhijie, Gu Dexin and Pan Xin Lei, two of whom are participants of the Long March project. For this special occasion, the Long March will deliver two programs to this commercial gallery: Qin Ga's Miniature Long March and Jiang Jie's Seeing off the Red Army: In Commemoration of Mothers on the Long March. The curation, construction, and design of these programs will not be conducted by the curator of the Long March, but instead by an internationally renowned artist who has chosen to remain anonymous. The programs will be a statement of his continuous engagement with and participation in the Long March.
　　These two programs are representative of the type of work realized during the whole course of the Long March, in which artists are present though remote. Qin Ga has tattooed on his body a map of China; through the sweltering summer, the Long March detachment would report their location to him daily, and Qin Ga would in turn tattoo their progress along the route. His body has become an artwork, a Long March object, and a site of collective and individual memory. Drawing her inspiration from the historical stories of female Red Army soldiers who were forced to give up their newborn babies, Jiang Jie has entrusted 20 sculptures of babies to the Long March main contingents to be presented to people encountered on the road for "adoption." She has also asked us to help her establish contacts with the adoptive parents, asking them to send her a photo of their new infant each year on the anniversary of the adoption-effectively the child's birthday. The baby sculptures will never grow old, while the adopters will age year by year. The time span of this work could range from decades to perhaps even forever. The spatial range of this work develops within the geographical setting along the route of the Long March. By involving multiple layers of history, humanity, geography, gender, family and individual fate, the work goes well beyond a simple discussion of the female experience of reproduction. Now, his or her adopter has transcended the geographical limit of the historical Long March and the interventions of tribal, cultural, and political dissimilarities will open up new dimensions for the Long March. For this special occasion in New York City, the curators will accept applications from prospective parents and has decided take a consultative approach due to anticipated high demand.
　　True to form, The Long March in New York City will reveal multi-layered interactions between artworks, displays, and audiences as well as blurring of their roles.
　　Ethan Cohen Fine Arts is located at 37 Walker Street (tel: 212-625-1250). Those interested in adopting a baby, please contact to: adoption@longmarchfoundation.org.
　　 This program is under the auspices of the Refugee Republic Co.
　　The Long March project will continue to march into not-for-profit art spaces, museums, and non-art spaces in the near future. For more information please visit our website at www.longmarchfoundation.org.