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¡¤Hong Hao¡¤Beijing
¡¶Red Reproducation¡·
Photograph
Performance / installation
Yan'an Revolutionary sites
May - August, 2006
The artist traveled with the Long March team to Yan¡¯an, searching for the connection and linkages between
historical memory and tourism by collecting different memorabilia and souvenirs from the various historical
sites throughout Yan¡¯an. In room 6410 of the ¡°Kangda Hotel¡± (Anti-Japanese Military University Hotel) in
Yan¡¯an ¨C a site which combines both history and tourism ¨C Hong Hao would work everyday classifying and
organizing these items, as well as scanning their images and combining them into a photographic collage.
If Hong Hao¡¯s Long March work, ¡°Long March in Panjiayuan¡±, is a form of vicariously participating in the Long
March (Panjiayuan is in Beijing), using an analysis of images to reassemble revolutionary texts together, what
it brings forth is the visual memory of the artist and connection to the period when he was growing up.
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