Yang Shaobin, 800 Meters Under, video installation, 7’30”; 2006

The Long March Project – “800 Meters Under” is a collaboration between the renowned artist Yang Shaobin and the Long March. Over the course of a two and a half years, the artist traveled to Kailuan Coalmine, the place where he was born and raised, exploring the dialectic relationships between China and the West, revolutionary memory and historical memory, industrial and rural societies; his personal bodily experiences and history acting as a starting point to revisit the relationship between contemporary art and society, and collective and individual. In the fall of 2006, the artist will unveil a solo exhibition at the Long March Space, including archival texts and images of the artist’s experiences in Kailuan, objects and materials from the miners from work and their daily lives, a video documentary, as well as a series of large-scale oil paintings.

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