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Business as Usual/New Video from China/Cao Fei and Yang Fudong

ASU Art Museum

September 15-December 9, 2007

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Both Cao Fei and Yang Fudong address the emergence of a new middle class in China. Fei, in My Future is Not a Dream, portrays workers who left their small town lives to pursue life in the big city. They took with them the dreams to be dancers and singers, and ended up in factories. Working with the people in a light bulb factory, Fei has the workers dress in the garb of their dreams and perform within the environment of their actual lives; the factory. In an atmosphere of greater government tolerance, artists like her employ video, photography, performance as well as painting to explore the experience of living in a rapidly changing urban environment. Globalization has brought them into contact with Western contemporary art, which explains the increasing visual similarity, but their concerns remain unique to present-day China. Fudong's film and video work portrays his generation of people, in their late 20s and early 30s, who are part of the emerging middle class in China and who hover between the past and present. Fudong's work epitomizes how the recent and rapid modernization of China has overthrown traditional values and culture. He skillfully balances this dichotomy to create works endowed with classic beauty and timelessness. Fudong seeks through multiple vignettes to offer the poetics of place and existence. Whatever occurs, his film work and photography indicate that something remains untouched and unmoved, and perhaps all the more valuable for that reason. Important Information: Opening reception: Friday September 14, 2007 7:00pm- 9:00pm

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  September 15-December 9, 2007

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  Tuesday 10:00am-9:00pm, Wednesday-Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm

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  ASU Art Museum

  51 East 10th Street Tempe, AZ 85287

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