Ways to Participate in the Long March Foundation

A Request for Volunteers

This year, The Long March: A Walking Visual Display is continuing in its latter phase of development. Due to the complexity of the foundation's structure, the abundance of ideas, the number of participants, and especially the unique and experimental form of the exhibition, we are confronted with both an extraordinary opportunity and a great challenge. Therefore, we are working diligently to refine our working process. At the same time, we wish to extend a sincere invitation to all of those who cherish Chinese art in the hope that you will join our team as a volunteer. It is an exciting time for The Long March.

Volunteer Opportunities

From our perspective, the Long March was historically a means to realize common ideals, to creatively resolve problems through the pooling of ideas and through an experimental spirit, to value the thoughts of the people, and to collaborate the wishes and capabilities of others. In the same way, this Long March is a chance to both experiment and discuss the issues of contemporary Chinese art and to promote dialogue about art throughout China. Only with widespread participation can this Long March truly embody the spirit of the first Long March. Therefore, by contributing to The Long March as a volunteer, you not only help to alleviate some of the pressures brought on by time and other obstacles, more importantly, you also contribute your own ideas which become part of The Long March itself. With a structure that allows for a great deal of change brought on by collaboration among participants, The Long March provides an experience that is unique from other organizations.

The following is a brief list of the current needs of the Long March Foundation:
1. Translators: Both oral interpreters (for lectures) and written translators (for reference material, artists' profiles, descriptions of works, etc.) who have high-level English and Chinese speaking/writing skills and a thorough understanding of contemporary art are needed.
2. Data collectors
3. Audio data collectors and organizers
4. Website administrators
5. Staff in charge of packaging , sending, and transporting artworks
6. Staff for page design and printing
7. Receivers of foreign artists: This includes making flight and hotel arrangements and accompanying them while they sightsee in Beijing.
8. Staff to act as liaisons working with Chinese and international artists, curators, and museums, etc.
9. Photographers
10. Staff to act as liaisons working to increase communication within the organization
11. Writers for media announcements and articles

In addition, if your skills fall outside the above listed items but you are willing to share your ideas, we welcome you to put forth suggestions. Your participation can be as flexible as needed, and no matter how you help our organization, we all work together and your name will be listed in our catalogs, videos, and other materials.

The Long March is not just the concern of curators or artists, it is everyone's concern. Although it works with ideals, it also has a large number of real-life problems. We hope that we are able to unite a portion of the people who are concerned with the development of Chinese art in the aim of promoting sincere engagement with the issues of contemporary Chinese art. The structure and working style of The Long March is unique, and the individual and collaborative contributions of participants are what make up the whole.

The Long March is a declarer, sower, and propagator of ideas. We welcome you to join our team:

Declarer of ideas (editorial director): The position involves writing and editing catalogs, articles, web pages, etc.
Sower of ideas (chief marketing director): The responsibilities of this position include promoting and publicizing The Long March.
Propagator of ideas (volunteers): Volunteers join The Long March bringing their former experience with them when they come and taking their Long March experience with them when they leave.

If you are interested in the editorial director or marketing director position or in becoming a volunteer, please call, visit us at our office, or email your resume to us. Join the march!