Phantom tales
dal 13/6/2001 al 14/6/2001
Segnalato da
13/6/2001
Phantom tales
Dia Art Foundation, New York
Feng Mengbo Web Project. Is latest work in Dia's series of artists' projects for the web. "Phantom Tales," which examines the violence and propaganda that permeated the storybooks of Mengbo's childhood, is the artist's first web-based project.
Feng Mengbo Web Project
Is latest work in Dia's series of artists' projects for the web.
Beijing Artist Animates Stories of the Cultural Revolution.
Mengbo, who was born
in Beijing in 1966 and lives and works in that city, draws
heavily on China's cultural and political history, as well as
his own personal history, filtered through the lens of
technology. "Phantom Tales," which examines the violence and
propaganda that permeated the storybooks of Mengbo's childhood,
is the artist's first web-based project.
For "Phantom Tales" Mengbo turns to the Cultural Revolution,
creating animations based on two widely-known storybooks and a
technical guidebook. In recasting "One Silver Dollar," an
account by a soldier of the People's Liberation Army of his
family's tragic history prior to 1949, Mengbo employs cinematic
techniques to turn images appropriated from a static
black-and-white picture book into an engaging and dynamic
experience. "The Bloody History of the Three Stones," a
chronicle of the conditions suffered by workers in Tianjin City
in the 1940s, is presented by Mengbo in a style analogous to
the manual slide shows of his childhood, which, in the absence
of television and movies, were a major source of entertainment.
An animation of "The Technology of Slides Shows" examines a PLA
manual for creating animated effects in slide shows. A
soundtrack, of found music and sounds, accompanies each piece.
"Phantom Tales" may be seen at http://www.diacenter.org/mengbo . Dia
and Mengbo will celebrate the project on Thursday evening, June
14, 2001, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., with a party in Dia's
bookshop at 548 West 22nd Street, New York City.
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