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Video Art Record
Chicken
Xiao Wenjun
- Artist
- Xiao Wenjun
- Title
- Chicken
- Year
- 2014
- Medium
- Single-channel video
- Duration
- 8 min 12 sec
- Format
- Video Art
- Collection
- DO2ON Garden Collection
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Look With This WorkCreate Project CharterLife seen through industrial efficiency
The chicken is often understood through efficiency: a creature transformed quickly into food. Xiao Wenjun slows that logic down. By treating the act of killing a chicken as a ritual, the work asks viewers to feel the disappearance of life that industrial production usually hides. The ordinary meal becomes connected to debt, care, and violence.
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