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Video Art Record
Taklamakan Project
- Artist
- Zhao Zhao
- Artist reference
- Title
- Taklamakan Project
- Year
- 2015 - 2016
- Medium
- Video
- Duration
- 15 min 15 sec
- Edition
- 4/5
- Format
- Video Art
- Copyright
- © Zhao Zhao
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Look With This WorkAn impossible line through the desert
Zhao Zhao's project involved a large team, a long cable, and a refrigerator filled with Xinjiang beer powered deep in the Taklamakan Desert. The action is absurd, logistical, and physically demanding. It connects personal action with infrastructure, territory, borders, labor, and the vast indifference of the desert.
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