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¡¤Wang Shugang¡¤Beijing
¡¶Continuing the Revolution Another 8 Li¡·
Multimedia installation
performance/installation
Yan'an Baota Mountain to Yan'an University Cave
Dwellings
2006
For this project, Wang Shugang produced a miniature papier-mach¨¦ Baota Pagoda, and with his entourage of local people dressed in Red Army uniforms in tow, proceeded to march from Baota Mountain, to the cave dwellings exhibition site at Yan¡¯an niversity.During the course of the march, the artist explained Chinese and international art history, as well as the new cultural and art history of Yan¡¯an.Through this passage across these revolutionary sites in Yan¡¯an, the group learned of the meaning behind the theory of ¡°art serving the people.¡±Upon reaching the exhibition site at the historical site of the former Yan¡¯an University, the Baota Pagoda was displayed as an installation within a cave dwelling, along with crumpled pages from an art history book from the revolutionary period.
Through the combination of revolutionary history and art history of China, the work interpreted the will and spiritual resources that support China¡¯s ongoing new Long March.
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