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Video Art Record
Hegemony (aka Contending for Supremacy)
Sun Yuan & Peng YuMuseum profile
- Artist
- Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
- Artist reference
- Year
- 2003
- Medium
- HD video
- Duration
- 16 min 17 sec
- Edition
- 4/5
- Format
- Video Art
- Copyright
- © Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Look With This WorkCompetition under unequal rules
Three free fighters from different weight classes are placed into one match. What appears at first to be sport becomes a discussion of power, competition, and institutional rules. By making the imbalance visible, the work asks how victory is shaped before the contest even begins.
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