Song Ta, Who Is the Most Lovable Person?
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Who Is the Most Lovable Person?

Song Ta

Artist
Song Ta
Title
Who Is the Most Lovable Person?
Year
2014
Medium
3-channel video
Duration
3 min 40 sec
Format
Video Art
Collection
DO2ON Garden Collection

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Public memory placed inside everyday entertainment

Song Ta begins from the famous 1951 essay Who Is the Most Lovable Person? and invites active-duty navy members to ride a roller coaster in Guangzhou. The work brings a heroic public memory into an amusement park setting. This contrast reopens the image of the soldier, not as a fixed symbol, but as something that can be seen again through ordinary pleasure, speed, and spectacle.

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