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Lu
Jie (Curator of Long March)
Chief Curator Long March Project
25000 Cultural Transmission Center
Mailbox 8503
Beijing, China 100015
http://www.longmarchspace.com/images/qinga/qigalongmarch/e-qinganews.htm
Artist Qin Ga participated in the project from Beijing by remotely following
the Long March team’s movements. The artist first tattooed a map
of China onto his back, and then would tattoo each new site that the Long
March team would arrive at in its respective position on the map, permanently
leaving behind each route and site.
When the Long March team declared a temporary stop to the project on September
2002, at Site 12 (Luding Bridge, Sichuan Province), Qin Ga’s tattoo
work also stopped. Through a small needle, the 25000 li (6,000 mile) Long
March was miniaturized onto Qin Ga’s back. His body is both an artwork
and a Long March object, combining together elements of history, and collective
and individual memory.
The Miniature Long March
Stage 1 – This work was directed at and made for, “The Long
March – A Walking Visual Display”, a major art project carried
out from 28 June
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30 August, 2002.
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The
final site of the Long March and the foundation of a new Utopian society
(2005)
Copyright © Qin Ga |
Remotely
following the Long March team's progress in 2002
Copyright © Qin Ga
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Stage
2 - Nearly three years after the work was first started, I decided that
I would go from Beijing to Luding Bridge, continuing the Long March where
it had left off in 2002. From 1 May - 1 June, 2005, I trekked across the
snowy mountains, the swampy grasslands, and made my way to Yan’an.
The journey was conducted using a variety of transportation methods including
train, long distance buses, in the back of a truck, on a tractor, as well
as walking.
Every time we reached a new site, I would have the site and route tattooed
onto my back, recording the process with video and photography, as well
as collecting the daily items used during the journey as an archive of the
process itself.
Traveling with me were tattoo artist Gao Xiang, photographer and cameraman
Liu Ding, Gao Feng, and Mei Er. |
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Biography
Qin Ga
1971 - Born in Inner Mongolia
1997 - BFA, Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts,
Beijing
2004 - MFA Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Lives and works in Beijing Solo Exhibition
2005 - The Miniature Long March 2002-2005, Long March Space, Beijing,
China
Selected Exhibitions
2005 - A Second Sight - Second Prague International Biennale
Contemporary Art, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 - The Long March Pavilion, Le moine et le demon Chinese
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Shanghai Assemblage 2000-2004,The National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Olso, Norway
Designed in France, Made in China, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2003 - Space Art Exhibition, Jun Feng Hua Ting, Beijing
Drifting - A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Post Modern City, Beijing
2002 - The Long March - A Walking Visual Display, different sites
in China
2001 - Dreaming to Country, Shanxi, China
2000 - Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
Documentary Show of Chinese Avant-garde Art in the 1990s, Fukuoka Asian
Art Museum, Japan
Fifth Lyon Biennale, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum, France
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Sculpture, Qingdao Sculpture
Museum, China
Obsession with Harm, Sculpture Institute of the Central Academy of Fine
Arts, Beijing
Century Gate-Invitational Exhibition of Chinese Art
1979 - 1999, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
1999 - Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, He Xiangning
Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Post-Sense Sensibility-Alien Bodies and Delusion, Beijing
1998 - Inlays-Contemporary Art of Three Artists, Passage Gallery, Beijing
China
Yu Zi Paradise International Sculpture Symposium, Yu Zi Paradise, Guilin,
China
1995 - Hiroshima’95, International Conference Center, Hiroshima
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