“Avant-garde” in Hamburg
Avant-garde
Time: September 13 – October 1, 2006
Location: Hamburg
Kampnagel Hamburg invited Long March Project to attend the public projects component of the “China Time” art festival. Long March Project participated with two programmes: “Middle Ground：A Nod to Performance Art” and Qiu Zhijie’s “Left/Right”.
“Middle Ground：A Nod to Performance Art” is an experimental workshop on performance art. Led by Lu Jie and Qiu Zhijie, the session started with a re-enactment of A Nod to Performance Art (Long March Collective, 2002), an improvised performance piece that took place in Site 12 of "Long March- A Walking Visual Display", local participants explored the idea of "avant-garde" in the context of Chinese modern and contemporary by way of experimenting with the language of the body. During the session, the group collectively came up with the idea of reverse-walking as both a response and an expression.
The group then walked backwards in synch for three hours in the city, first passing through the exhibition “Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection” at the Hamburger Kunsthalle then circling around Hamburg’s city centre before ending back at the museum.
Kampnagel Hamburg invited Long March Project to attend the public projects component of the “China Time” art festival. Long March Project participated with two programmes: “Middle Ground：A Nod to Performance Art” and Qiu Zhijie’s “Left/Right”.
“Middle Ground：A Nod to Performance Art” is an experimental workshop on performance art. Led by Lu Jie and Qiu Zhijie, the session started with a re-enactment of A Nod to Performance Art (Long March Collective, 2002), an improvised performance piece that took place in Site 12 of "Long March- A Walking Visual Display", local participants explored the idea of "avant-garde" in the context of Chinese modern and contemporary by way of experimenting with the language of the body. During the session, the group collectively came up with the idea of reverse-walking as both a response and an expression.
The group then walked backwards in synch for three hours in the city, first passing through the exhibition “Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection” at the Hamburger Kunsthalle then circling around Hamburg’s city centre before ending back at the museum.