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Where There Are No Art Circles: The Long March Project and New Geographies of Chinese Contemporary Art

Volume 16, Number 6, November/December 2017
by Timothy Shea


Article Description

In this essay, Timothy Shea focuses on the Long March Project, organized in 2002 by the Long March Foundation, New York (and now based in Beijing), which explored the relationship between contemporary art and the political narrative of the historical Long March, and addressed this overdetermined geography in its first curatorial project titled The Long March: A Walking Visual Display. The project was an engagement with the utopian narrative of the Long March and was intended to explore, through visual culture, the continuing potential of the Long March metaphor to address the transformations of contemporary Chinese culture and society.


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Timothy Shea, Long March Foundation, The Long March: A Walking Visual Display, utopian/anti-utopian narratives, Qin Ga, Miniature Long March, Qiu Zhijie, Left/Right, Xiao Xiong, Enter and Exit, Jiang Jie, Sending Off the Red Army: In Commemoration of the Mothers on the Long March