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Gluttonous Me

In an environment with mirrored walls that create infinite reflections, a video plays in an EVD. This all-in-one home entertainment system was produced in the early 2000s in China as a progressive device with the aim to allow hearing-impaired people to “see music”. Soon considered outdated, this sophisticated instrument ended up in remote rural areas of Sichuan where the artist noticed it while conducting field research in ethnomusicology. Recalling a dashboard for space navigation in a science-fiction film, it inspired him with a dreamlike narrative, suspended between past and future. Liu references major Western SciFi movies, the chants of ethnic minorities from the South-East of China and the sudden arrival of pop music in Hong Kong, in the 1980. Between the vernacular and the urban, the artist ponders the powers of magic, utopia and disappearance.

Gluttonous Me

NR 2018
Rightist Li Sheng Zhao’s Hunger Report

Li Sheng Zhao was born in a landlord family in Sichuan. He used to be a soldier, and then became a student in the Department of Economics at Sichuan University in the spring of 1961. After he became a rightist, Mr. Li was escorted to his hometown of Long Chang County in Sichuan province. He observed that people were dying with hunger in his way to hometown. With his investigative experience in army, Mr. Li was called for conscience and justice, and started a private investigation. He braved the risk of death to write this hunger report to the central party committee leaders, requesting them to take measures to save the country. Although he received a reply from Ma Yin Chu, the former president of Peking University, and Deng Zi Hui, the former vice premier of the State Council, this did not prevent him from becoming a counter-revolutionary and getting into jail for 18 years.

Rightist Li Sheng Zhao’s Hunger Report

NR 2018