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- What is the work about? His work is mostly about exposing political, economical and social issues in the world of today. He wants people to express their suppressed feeling about such issues.
- How does he provoke the viewers? By exposing issues that affect people today. That helps people relate to what he is trying to help them expose.
- What does he expose? People’s feelings about social, economical and social issues.
- Has his work inspired change? Social, political, economical change? I don’t think so, but however there was one positive outcome which was an anniversary for the artwork that the minority students held.
Wenda Gu
- What is attractive or repulsive about his work? The repulsive part about his work is the medium he used for the Oedipus Refound series. However, the medium he used for the United Nations-China Movement: Temple of Heaven (1998) was a genius move. Hair as a symbol of unity. This artwork was not like any other work I have ever seen. It makes you feel (even though I just read about it) the aesthetics of unity by making the viewers from different ethnicities feel the same feeling of frustration when they see the work because the writings are pseudo-scripts of the languages included.
- Is it political? Why? Yes because his work is reflecting on unification between different ethnicities by using the human body as a solution.
- What is his goal through his art? His goal is to show viewers that we are all one. (In short, Unity between different nationalities).
-Has he gone too far? Yes. For the sake of accomplish his goal he is willing to impregnate one woman from each continent is a bit too much. There will be no unification between people anyway. Symbolically yes. Having kids that are multiracial, but in reality people will still discriminate against people who look different including his "multiracial kids" (not yet).
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