LONG MARCH SPACE application for “Fukutake House” Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial

　　Artist:

　　QIU Zhijie

　　Title:

　　The Thunderstorm is Slowly Approaching 2007-09

　　Type of work:

　　Performance, sculptural installation and two-channel video

　　About the work:

　　The Thunderstorm is Slowly Approaching, by the artist Qiu Zhije, takes the traditional Chinese dragon dance as a starting point for investigating the pressures to hide national identity within a ‘host’ culture.

　　Work description:

　　This work involves a ten-member dragon dance team who perform outdoors (during the opening event) wearing a costume made from camouflage material. The resulting installation displays the costumes from this performance, including video documentation of the performed act. Displayed as a two-channel installation, the first video shows how the performers are trained while the second records the final performance. The interior of the venue of this work (teaching material room) would be painted in the pattern of the camouflage costume.

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