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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EX.CHN.LMW
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Chinese - Simplified, 

English

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catalogue

Chapter headings

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

Long March: A Walking Visual Display
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Long March: A Walking Visual Display, 長征—一個行走中的視覺展示