Qiyun Zheng

Bea Camacho

Enclose (Video Stills), 2005

durational, knitting, isolation, shelter, separation, faking, camouflage, distance, fragility, animal/insect, self-wrapping, warmth, labor, exhaustion, female, tangible time, expectation

The redness is constantly seeking attention and even taking more space even though the body is disappearing, with the self-wrapping movement that shows a kind of depressing feeling. And even when the body disappeared in the ending, the red presence is so strong, in comparison to the collapsed body.

Wang Qiang

After Hour Artists, 1985

“one of the first private performance works, where he posed as a living statue, wearing a suit and covered entirely in paint and plaster, with his head wrapped in white cloth”

still, installation, object, working class

Zhang Peili and Geng Jianyi

Wrapping Up – King and Queen, 1986

provocative, uncanny, couple, genderless, ironic

Concept 21st Century Group

Art Before Your Eyes, 1986

Lanzhou Art Group

May Fourth Youthday, action piece, 1987

action, group, citing

Song Yonghong and Song Yongping

A Scenic Personal Experience, 1986

collaboration, experimental visual, color covered, identity

Concept 21st Century Group

Great Wall, 1987

group, gauze, injury, site-specific, anecdote, movements, recitation, choreography

Wei Guangqing, Ma Liuming

Suicide Project, 1988

death, danger, provocative

Shanghai Group

The Last Supper, 1988

cross-culture, ritual, death