Wang Jinsong New Long March Slogan Sound Installation 2002

Wang Jinsong's New Long March Slogan was first realized along the course of the Long March from June to August 2002 at the sites of Ruijin, Jiangxi Province; Jingangshan Mountain, Jiangxi Province; Quanzhou, Guangxi; Guilin, Guangxi Province; Kunming, Yunan Province; Lijiang, Yunan Province; Lugu Lake, Yunan-Sichuan Province; Zunyi, Guizhou Province; Maotai, Guizhou Province; Xichang, Sichuan; Moxi, Sichuan Province; and Luding Bridge, Sichuan.

New Long March Slogan is one of the works of The Long March: A Walking Visual Display that was realized over the entire course of the march. The recording was created in twelve different languages, including Mandarin Chinese, English, and ten different Chinese dialects, all spoken in the form of a formal news report. The work is made up of readings of Long March curators' words and plans mixed together with excerpts from famous contemporary art texts published in China. Wang Jinsong first exhibited his work using Jiangxi dialect at Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, the first site of the Long March. At each of the following sites, he continued to record and exhibit the work in the dialect of that respective site, including Guangxi, Yunan, Guizhou, and Sichuanese dialects, continuing through the twelve completed sites of the march.

Now, at the thirteenth site of the Long March, the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center in Beijing, Wang Jinsong is the first "professional" contemporary artist invited to join this exhibition and create a dialogue with the other works created by the "amateur" artists in "The Power of the Public Realm."

The current exhibition design of New Long March Slogan is as follows: Several cassette players have been placed throughout the Long March Space together with the works from phases one through three of the "The Power of the Public Realm" exhibition. The ten cassette players broadcast Wang Jinsong's work in ten different dialects all at once, creating a mixture of sound and language. If, as a visitor to the gallery, you would like to listen to one particular recording, please refer to the diagram below to determine the placement of that recording so that you may get close enough to single it out.

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