ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

Will/We Must
ZHOU TIEHAI 周铁海
1996
single-channel film
35mm, b&w, silent
9 minutes 17 seconds
Edition of 5
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It combines humor and sadness, the artists and artistic environment today is still the same, perhaps, it attracts less attention as the system of auction, gallery and art fair is growing which narrows the environment and operating methods. Came out in 1996, did this work correspond with the trend of integrating with the world, resist with its identity and environment, or sneer at the people around?

Will/ We Must is a 35mm film work, taking the form of early silent film in aspects of the chapters, the dialogues and the montages. It carries the anthropological sense of the cultural environment, daily life and individuals in 90s.

http://www.shanghartgallery.com/artists/zhoutiehai/will.htm

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Related Exhibitions:
Life and Dreams, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany 05.13, 2018 -11.18, 2018
ShanghART Video Art Salon / Talk & Screening: Black Ponderings No. 2, ShanghART Video Room Bldg. 8, West Bund, 2555 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai 09.23, 2017
Will / We Must, Yuz Museum, Shanghai 07.11, 2017 -08.27, 2017
The Crocodile in the Pond, Museum Art St. Urban and Abbey St. Urban, Luzern, Switzerland 06.12, 2016 -06.26, 2016
A Hundred Years of Shame, Para Site, Hong Kong 03.06, 2015 -05.10, 2015
V&P, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing 12.20, 2014 -02.28, 2015
Video Bureau Archive 27: Zhou Tiehai, Video Bureau, Beijing 05.23, 2014 -07.24, 2014
Mapping Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong 05.12, 2014 -08.16, 2014
15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA), Power Station of Art, Shanghai 04.26, 2014 -07.20, 2014
KINO DER KUNST Film Festival, Munich, Germany 04.24, 2013 -04.28, 2013
Nothing to Declare?, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, German 02.01, 2013 -03.24, 2013
The Global Contemporary, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 09.17, 2011 -02.05, 2012
Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai 09.09, 2011 -11.27, 2011
Catch the Moon in the Water: Emerging Chinese Artists, James Cohan Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 06.16, 2011 -07.29, 2011
Stolen Treasures from Modern China, ShanghART 796 Huaihai Road, Shanghai 09.08, 2009 -10.10, 2009
Shanghai Kino, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 05.30, 2009 -07.19, 2009
Our Future, UCCA, Beijing 07.19, 2008 -10.12, 2008
2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan 10.09, 2007 -11.02, 2007
Will, Gallery Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal 2000


Related Texts:
WILL - A Silent Movie by Zhou Tiehai , Zhou Tiehai, Zhang Qing TEXT 1996-12-01