City Golf
2008 - Film & Video (Film & Video)
Gao Mingyan
In City Golf (2008) the artist Gao Mingyan films himself playing 18 “holes” of golf throughout the mega-city of Shanghai. For each hole, Gao traveled to significant places from his memory – his first school, his childhood playground, and his former date hangouts – and proceeded to play a makeshift round of golf at each location. In revisiting locales from his youth, Gao attempts to forge a linear connection between all the important places that comprise a life’s experience, his performative “passing” through each location poetically referencing his own passage through time. Gao’s project, however, raises deeper questions about transgression. In order to construct these temporary “holes,” Gao has to willing subvert how these locations function as public site, a significant intervention of private will into a communal space in a country, China, where the tensions between private/public are decidedly political.
Gao Mingyan produces video based-works that examine the political and epistemological violence of our contemporary moment. While his work may seem to document the everyday and mundane, he is decidedly interested in how the dissemination of popular media affects our perception of social tensions and anxieties. His practice stems from the belief that our contemporary moment is defined by a constant state of warfare in which epistemological forms of political and economic warfare inflict as much harm as live ammunition. His work, by extension, considers how even our physical movements throughout social space can be marked as forms of trespass.
Colors:
Related works sharing similar palette
© » TWOCOATSOFPAINT
Afire: Christian Petzold’s combustible feast – Two Coats of Paint Afire (directed by Christian Petzold), 2023, Leon on the beach (Thomas Schubert) , courtesy of Janus Films Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Instability hovers on several fronts – environmental, political, economic – and German filmmaker Christian Petzold manifests his concern about it with remarkable astuteness...
© » KADIST
Awol Erizku
2018Awol Erizku’s image Origin of Afro-Esotericism has compositional force and a rhythmic use of full-blast color...
© » BROOKLYN STREET ART
BSA Images Of The Week: 11.05.23 | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Nobody was out Friday night when we went to see “Stop Making Sense” on the screen; the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn at 10 pm were rather lightly attended, possibly because everyone was recovering from a mid-week Halloween/Day of the Dead blast of drunkenness, revelry, laughter, and tears...
© » KADIST
Leonardogillesfleur
2005Leonardogillesfleur describe Action 3:02 as their “first New York blizzard storm at about 5am...
© » KADIST
Will Rogan
2014Will Rogan’s video Eraser (2014) shows a hearse parked in a clearing amidst leaf barren trees...
© » ASX
Danny Franzreb – Proof of Work – AMERICAN SUBURB X Skip to content My initial response to the massive swell of attention that cryptocurrency received in 2021, and more specifically to the non-fungible token (NFT) hysteria that gripped so much of cultural discourse online and in the press, was a dismissive roll of the eyes...
© » BROOKLYN STREET ART
Tuco Wallach Pacifico / Kitsuné Project – Part 1 / Christmas | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY We’re pleased to continue positively into the new year by sharing a heartwarming journey into the world of family made street art, where personal ties and creativity intertwine beautifully...
© » LE MONDE
Le président de la Société des amis du Louvre sur la sellette Offrir Le Monde Article réservé aux abonnés A 78 ans, Louis-Antoine Prat a toujours l’œil et la moustache qui frisent à l’évocation de ses coups d’éclat, qu’il s’agisse des trophées qu’il fait entrer dans les collections du Louvre, de la Société des amis duquel il est le président depuis 2016, ou dans sa propre collection privée, l’une des plus belles en France, exposée actuellement au Musée des beaux-arts d’Orléans...
© » ANOTHER
Uncovering Britain’s Groundbreaking Black-British Women Photographers | AnOther February 05, 2024 Text Elodie Saint-Louis Lead Image Eileen Perrier, ‘Untitled’ from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998, from Shining Lights by Joy Gregory (ed.) (MACK, 2024) Courtesy of the artist and MACK In Shining Lights , the “first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s ”, a constellation of rarely-seen stars finally take their rightful place in the sky...
© » KADIST
Chemi Rosado-Seijo
2016Map of the Universe from El Cerro continues Chemi Rosado-Seijo’s long-term engagement with the community of El Cerro , a rural, working-class community living in the mountains of Naranjito, Puerto Rico...
