Even though you can never see the baby, the subject of the piece, the recycled speech forms a portrait of the child in formation. The installation was a corridor eight meters long embedded with 18 monitors that showed body parts pressed up against lens of the camera. It ends as he is about to slit its throat and cuts to a still of a knife, then of him lying on the ground. The video has a mythic quality, especially at the end, when he cuts short the audience's expectations of art to provide a dramatic event. When he screened the video, he brought the sheep to stand before the video.
Thoughts are normal.
Inflammation is going down. In his installation, he lined up packets of his fake medicine, actually flour in packets. Done two years before the Falun Gong crackdown, he says he used the documentary footage of the qigong to demonstrate how visual reality betrays your belief in reality. All rights reserved. This page may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of New Art Media Limited.