The Long March in China took 4 years of preparation before it started in January 1999. To quote the words of the chief curator, Lu Jie, this 'new' Long March 'looks for a new approach to contemporary art, using China as a platform. During a total of four months' travel, 250 international and local artists worked together to realise projects and display works in twenty sites along the route. The projects, like the journey itself, are constantly developing. Works include traditional Chinese ink painting, the Western stand-bys of oil and sculpture, the contemporary norms of conceptual art, performance, video, sound, and site-specific installations, non-art, and so-called "folk" and amateur art. Many of the projects realised on-site during the journey also include workshops, symposiums and special methodologies of Long March, namely the authorless or non-art happenings we call Long March installations and Long March events. Participants work together, turning local resources into the international language of contemporary art, and conversely imbuing international art with a local context and significance — making, as the Maoist dictum goes, "art for the people".'
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installation,  video art,  performance art,  painting,  sculpture,  folk art,  group exhibition,  China
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SITE 1 - Ruijian, Jiangxi Province
SITE 2 - Jinggangshan Mountain, Jiangxi Province
SITE 3 - On the road in Guangxi Province
SITE 4 - Kunming, Yunnan Province
SITE 5 - Lijiang, Yunnan Province
SITE 6 - Lugu Lake, Yunnan-Sichuan Province border
SITE 7 - On the train between Kunming and Zunyi
SITE 8 - Zunyi, Guizhou Province
SITE 9 - Maotai, Guizhou Province
SITE 10 - Xichang Long March Satellite Station, Sichuan Province
SITE 11 - Moxi, Sichuan Province
SITE 12 - Luding Bridge, Da Du River, Sichuan Province
SITE 13 - 25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing
Operation Ink Freedom - Paintings by Wang Jinsong
Shi Qing - Black Taboos
Media Center Project
Temporary Space - An Experiment by Wang Wei
Out of Focus - A Dimension for Painting
Long March - The Power of the Public Realm
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