Friday, July 17, 2009
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Posted by The Stranger on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Art
'Business as Usual: New Video from China'
In Cao Fei's video Whose Utopia (2006), factory workers who have moved to the Pearl River Delta to become part of the new Chinese economy appear in dreamlike scenes of their own creations: They dance between glowering pieces of industrial machinery, they adapt their products into instruments, they wear costumes as they go about their work. This is not simply an abstract meditation on power for an art audience; they're cocreating and absorbing its many meanings themselves. Two videos in Business as Usual are by Yang Fudong, whose five-part series Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest (2003–07) was a spellbinding, enigmatic attraction at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Here we'll see the earlier City Lights and Honey. (Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 11 am–9 pm, $10.)
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