2019
The China Eastern Railway: The Journey
The “China Eastern Railway” Project was initiated by the artists Zhang Hui and Zhao Gang in the spring of 2019. Zhang Hui was born in the city of Qiqihar in Heilongjiang Province and grew up with the railways given his father’s job building the railroad in Dongbei, China’s Northeast. Zhao Gang was born in Beijing into an ethnic Manchurian family, as an adult he spent many years in the United States and Europe for study and work. Both artists currently reside in Beijing. Through their personal inquiries into Dongbei and research into the recent historical and geopolitical significance of the cities and areas along the route of the China Eastern Railway, the railway came to reflect the two artists’ own explorations into their identities and creative processes.
Long March Archive: Back End
Long March Archive
Time: June 25 – August 31, 2019
Location: Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Meeting #5: Broken Production Chain
Planet Marx
Time: June 22, 2019
Location: KWM Art Center, Beijing
Guest speakers: Liu Wei, Song Yi
Meeting #3: Chemical Dirt
Planet Marx
Time: May 18, 2019
Location: Center for Visual Studies of Peking University, Beijing
Guest speakers: Jo Wei, Zhangbolong Liu
Long March Archive: HCMT Dictionary
Long March Archive
Time: May 25 – June 2 , 2019
Location: Xiangshan Art Commune, Hangzhou
Meeting #2: Earthen, Earthy, Earthly
Planet Marx
Time: April 21, 2019
Location: Taikang Space, Beijing
Guest speakers: Xiang Zairong, Mao Chenyu
From Long March Object to Long March Archive
Long March Archive
Shen Jun, Zian Chen, Clement Huang, Theresa Liang
2019
Planet Marx
Chinese Marxism’s scientific interpretation of the earth in the 1990s was a dialectical one: the development of the techno-sphere surrounding the planet and the protection of the natural resources went hand in hand. To depart from such philosophy-abetted techno-optimism, Long March Project takes up this imagery of a “Planet Marx” to host a study program consisting of a series of reading groups and an open source reader in 2019. It aims to create a knowledge ecosystem to share resources and collaborate with other ongoing artistic research and exhibition programs, through the medium of various unresolved historic texts found in the intersection between ideology, ancestry, the environment, and technology.
Meeting #1: How Does Planet Earth Become a Sensor?
Planet Marx
Time: March 21, 2019
Location: Long March Space, Beijing
Guest speakers: Zhao Yao, Wang Yijia
Long March Archive
“A Working Redisplay”(2018) led to the initiation of “Long March Archive”, an initiative that can be seen as an ongoing process of self-reflection via the act of archiving, uncovering obscured currents connecting the past and present, in turn inspiring new interpretations of and ways of looking at the Long March Project’s own history. Our work at Long March Archive includes working with objects, texts, films, research materials generated from previous endeavours, as well as the organizing structure and curatorial methodology of the Long March Project.