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Long
March Project Presented at the Asian Studies Annual Conference
March
27-30, 2003
Association for Asian Studies
Hilton Hotel, New York City
The Long March Project was a great success at the 2003 Association
for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in New York City.
We were invited by the University of Hawaii Press to join
their booth at the Book and Trade Exhibition. The three-day
conference in New York City had over 3,100 attendees and
140 booths.
Several
professors and scholars from the United States and Canada
were very interested in the Long March Project. Many requested
copies of the documentary to teach the Long March Project
to their college classes, in the subject areas of Contemporary
Chinese Art, Asian Studies and Film Studies. People were
also interested in coming to the Long March exhibits in
North America and Asia.
At the
AAS exhibit booth, the Long March displayed postcards and
handouts and showed a documentary about three of our site
exhibits.
One
exhibit was about the visit to Maotai (Site 9), home of
the famous Chinese hard liquor, Maotai Pijiu, where the
Long Marchers discussed the relationship of alcohol to art
with Maotai residents. After an impassioned discussion over
Maotai pijiu, residents watched the critically-acclaimed
American film, Pollock, a biopic about the alcoholic painter
Jackson Pollock, starring Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden.
This film inspired Maotai residents, which includes factory
workers and high school students, to create their own paintings
in the Abstract Expressionism style; some of their final
works are shown in the Long March documentary.
At the
Jinggangshan in the Jiangzi Province (Site 2), the Long
March Project displayed the Floating Exhibition of Siu Jianguo's
Sculptures of Karl Marx and Jesus Christ Dressed in Mao
Suits. The 1.2-meter-high sculpture of Karl Marx was strapped
upright to bamboo rafts and paddled down the river by local
raftsmen in an hour-long exhibition. Also at the same site,
another artwork realized was Wang Jin's Hanging Swords on
the Cliff with Swords Hung Upside Down. Beijing-based artist
Wang Jin transported 83 authentic swords, which once belonged
to Red Army soldiers during Mao's historic Long March. Dried
blood remains on some of the weapons. Using the heavy swords
as counterweights, Wang hung precariously upside down from
the mountain, with a thick rope tied to a single ankle.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly,
non-political, non-profit professional association, whose
members include academic professors, scholars, diplomats
and business people. It is the largest society of its kind
in the world. Through publication, meetings and seminars,
the AAS facilitates contact and an exchange of information
among scholars to increase their understanding of East,
South, and Southeast Asia.
The University of Hawaii Press is a premier publisher of
Asian Studies books. They are the proud distributors of
Yishu, the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, which devotes
a significant portion of the November 2002 issue to the
Long March Project.
Please click here to view our newsletter£º
January
15, 2003 The Long March at Apex
http://www.longmarchfoundation.org/english/e-discourse17.htm
February 20 2003 The Long March Presented at The CAA
http://www.longmarchfoundation.org/english/e-discourse26.htm
February 17, 2003 Long March Ranks Occupy New Headquarters
http://www.longmarchfoundation.org/english/e-discourse27.htm
For further information please visit the website www.longmarchfoundation.org
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