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Lu
Jie (Curator of Long March)
Chief Curator Long March
Project
25000 Cultural Transmission Center
Mailbox 8503
Beijing,
China 100015
http://www.longmarchspace.com/images/qinga/qigalongmarch/e-qinganews.htm
Artist
Qin Ga participated in the project from Beijing by remotely following the
Long March team’s movements. The artist first tattooed a map of China onto
his back, and then would tattoo each new site that the Long March team
would arrive at in its respective position on the map, permanently leaving
behind each route and site.
When the Long March team declared a
temporary stop to the project on September 2002, at Site 12 (Luding
Bridge, Sichuan Province), Qin Ga’s tattoo work also stopped. Through a
small needle, the 25000 li (6,000 mile) Long March was miniaturized onto
Qin Ga’s back. His body is both an artwork and a Long March object,
combining together elements of history, and collective and individual
memory.
The
Miniature Long March
Stage 1 – This work was directed at and made for,
“The Long March – A Walking Visual Display”, a major art project carried
out in from June 28 – August 30, 2002.
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The final site
of the Long March and the foundation of a new Utopian society
(2005)
Copyright © Qing Ga |
Remotely
following the Long March team's progress in 2002
Copyright © Qing Ga
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Stage 2 –
Nearly 3 years after the work was first started, I decided that I would go
from Beijing to Luding Bridge, continuing the Long March where it had left
off in 2002. From May 1 – June 1, 2005, I trekked across the snowy
mountains, the swampy grasslands, and made my way to Yan’an.
The
journey was conducted using a variety of transportation methods including
train, long distance buses, in the back of a truck, on a tractor, as well
as walking.
Every time we reached a new site, I would have the
site and route tattooed onto my back, recording the process with video and
photography, as well as collecting the daily items used during the journey
as an archive of the process itself.
Traveling with me were tattoo
artist Gao Xiang, photographer and cameraman Liu Ding, Gao Feng, and Mei
Er.
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Artist
Biography
QIN GA
1971 - Born
in Inner Mongolia
1997 - BFA, Sculpture Department of the Central
Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2004 - MFA Sculpture Department of the
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Lives and works in Beijing Solo
Exhibition
2005 - The Miniature Long March 2002-2005, Long March Space,
Beijing, China
Selected Exhibitions
2005 - A Second
Sight –Second Prague International Biennale Contemporary Art, National
Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 - The Long March Pavilion,
Le moine et le demon Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004,The
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Olso, Norway
Designed in France,
Made in China, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2003 - Space Art
Exhibition, Jun Feng Hua Ting, Beijing
Drifting - A Contemporary Art
Exhibition, Post Modern City, Beijing
2002 - The Long March – A
Walking Visual Display, different sites in China
2001 - Dreaming to
Country, Shanxi, China
2000 - Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery,
Shanghai
Documentary Show of Chinese Avant-garde Art in the 1990 s,
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum , Japan
Fifth Lyon Biennale, Lyon Contemporary
Art Museum, France
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese
Sculpture, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, China
Obsession with Harm,
Sculpture Institute of the Central Academy of Fine Arts,
Beijing
Century Gate-Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Art
1979
- 1999, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
1999 - Second Annual
Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen,
China
Post-Sense Sensibility-Alien Bodies and Delusion, Beijing
1998
- Inlays-Contemporary Art of Three Artists, Passage Gallery, Beijing
China
Yu Zi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium, Yu Zi Paradise,
Guilin, China
1995 - Hiroshima’95, International Conference Center,
Hiroshima Japan |
