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2003

The Power of the Public Realm

The Power of the Public Realm

The Power of the Public Realm was a series of exhibitions held at the 25000 Cultural Transmission Center from 2003 to 2004. Realized in six stages, it was a curatorial project dedicated to artistic practices conventionally excluded from Chinese contemporary culture. In its curation, the exhibition attempted to transform this highly exclusive model of cultural production by highlighting a plethora of narratives informed by the artists’ distinctive and often self-taught techniques. By inviting the artists to travel from Yan’an and other rural regions to the exhibition space in Beijing, the exhibition opened up a discursive field between two distinct conditions of cultural production.