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Double Fly Art Center
Double Fly, Same Style
, 2020
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Double Fly Art Center
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Double Fly, Same Style
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2020
Double Fly Art Center
Double Fly, Same Style
, 2020
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Film, video, Single channel video, audio, 10'04"
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Hong Kong / Beijing / Scottsdale
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Movement
Chinese Art, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Chinese Art
Exhibitions
11/21/2020–02/20/2021 Double Fly Awkward Pay
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Description
Double Fly, Same Style (2019) features the members of Double Fly Art Center eating, drinking, traveling, practicing, and singing dressed in “pomegranate dresses.” The video, as well as their description of the artwork, criticizes a reality many artists face—that in order to seek funding (particularly “public funding” within the case of China) artists must essentially take on the role of a hostess, subjecting themselves to the wants, whims, and expectations of those with the power to grant funding. The lyrics repeated throughout the video “Big Brother, How Are You?” (Dàgē, nǐ hǎo ma) seems directed at everyone in involved in these art world dynamics. It appears as flirtatious beckoning to those who grant funding and at the same time can be seen as vailed, inward facing concern directed at artists, who are in the unenviable position of sacrificing so much for so little funding.
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