Long
Marchers on the Road: Biographies
Thinkers & Artists
Johnson
Chang Tsong-zung, is a curator,
guest professor at the China
Art Academy, art director
of Hanart TZ Gallery, co-founder
of the Asia Art Archive in
Hong Kong, and co-founder
of the Hong Kong chapter of
International Association
of Art Critics (AICA). He
has curated Chinese exhibitions
since the 1980s, pioneered
the participation of Chinese
artists in international exhibitions,
and was instrumental in establishing
the international image of
Chinese contemporary art of
the 1990s.
Margaret
Chen studied Journalism (B.A.)
at Fudan University, Shanghai,
and Communications (M.Phil.)
at the Chinese University
of Hong Kong. After working
at Shanghai Zendai Museum
of Modern Art in 2007, she
joined Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art in Beijing
and worked in the Education & Public
Programs and Exhibitions
Departments. In March 2010,
she moved back to Shanghai
to participate in the West
Heavens Project.
Chen
Chieh-jen is a renowned Taiwanese
artist based in Taipei. In
the 1980’s Chen emerged as
a prominent figure of the
Taiwanese art scene with his
guerrilla-style performances
and underground exhibitions.
Since 1996, Chen has been
working primarily in film
and photography, seeking to
re-examine forgotten historical
memories of Taiwan hidden
under the dominance of neoliberal
rhetoric in Taiwanese society
today.
Brian
Doan is an artist and photographer
based in Los Angelos. He received
his MFA from Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston and
currently teaches photography
at the Long Beach City College,
Los Angelos. Brian was born
in Vietnam and immigrated
with his family to the United
States of America in the late
1980s.
Gao
Shiming is Executive Director
of the School of Inter-Media
Art, China Academy of Art.
His subjects include visual
culture research, contemporary
art studies and curatorial
practice. In the past few
years, he has curated many
exhibitions of academic standing,
including the research project
Edges of the Earth: The Migration
of Asian Contemporary Art
and Geo-politics, 2002-2004,
The Yellow Box: Contemporary
Art and Architecture in a
Chinese Space, 2006, Farewell
to Post-colonialism: the 3rd
Guangzhou Triennial, 2008,
and Rehearsal: the 8th Shanghai
Biennale, 2010 and so on.
Liu
Wei is an artist based in
Beijing. His practice is uniquely
varied; working in video,
installation, drawing, sculpture,
and painting, there is no
stylistic tendency which ties
his work together. Rather
Liu perceives the artist's
function as a responsibility
of unmitigated, uncensored
expression, tied to neither
ideology nor form. Throughout
Liu's work lies an engagement
with peripheral identity in
the context of wider culture;
his works often describe a
sentiment of excess, corruption,
and aggression reflective
of cultural anxiety.
Lu
Jie is Chief Curator of Long
March Project. He graduated
in 1988 with a B.F.A. from
the China Academy of Arts
in Hangzhou, and in 1999 he
received an M.A. in curating
from Goldsmiths College, University
of London. He has curated
numerous contemporary art
projects and exhibitions,
including the following Long
March projects, which were
presented in various international
locations: A Walking Visual
Display (2002), The Great
Survey of Papercutting in
Yanchuan County (2004), Yan’an
Project (2006), No Chinatown
(2007), and Ho Chi Minh Trail
Project (2008–ongoing).
Lu
Xinghua is an Associate Professor
of Philosophy at the Academy
of European Cultures, Tongji
University, Shanghai, and
Adjunct Professor of the Institute
of Contemporary Art and Social
Thought, School of Inter-Media
Art, China Academy of Art.
Lu has recently published
a book called Shared Contingencies
(2009).
Nguyen
Nhu Huy is an artist, independent
curator, and translator from
Hanoi who currently lives
and works in Ho Chi Minh City.
In the early 2000’s he co-founded
an online arts journal that
had been instrumental in introducing
foreign philosophy to the
Vietnamese art community.
In 2010, Huy founded an alternative
art space ZeroStation in Ho
Chi Minh City that emphasizes
on art education and discourse.
Wang
Jianwei is a pioneer of multi-media
and conceptual art and a senior
figure in China's contemporary
art scene. Academically trained
as a painter and shifting
his focus to multi-media installation
in the late 80s. ‘Connection’
and ‘relationship’ have been
the key phrases in Wang’s
vocabulary. His work could
be interpreted as an attempt
to discover and expose the
connection between beings,
matters and concepts that
may seem random on the surface.
What he aspires to achieve
is a kind of integration of
knowledge in many fields that
gives rise to his distinctive
approach as an artist.
Wu
Shanzhuan is a Chinese conceptual
artist who has been active
since the 1980s. He was the
first artist in China to incorporate
textual pop references into
his work. Wu’s 1986 installation
Red Humour International laid
the foundation for his idiosyncratic
approach to painting, which
forgoes imagery in favour
of political jingoism, religious
scripture, and advertising
slogans.
Wang
Jiahao is an artist and researcher
of architecture and urban
design. He is a candidate
for Master of Architecture
at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.
Viet
Le is a Ph.D. candidate in
American Studies at Department
of American Studies and Ethnicity,
University of Southern California.
Currently a senior fellow
at the Center for Khmer Studies
in Phnom Penh, he studies
memory, trauma, Vietnamese
studies, Asian-American Studies,
visual culture (art, mass
media, film), ethnography,
race and ethnicity, queer
studies, HIV/AIDS, and transnationalism.
Xu
Zhen graduated from the Shanghai
Arts and Crafts Institute
in 1996 and since then has
sought to push the boundaries
of social assumptions, cultural
anomalies, and the imagined
world and its actual relation
to reality, to name but a
few of the constructs with
which he humorously critiques
contemporary life. He co-founded
Shanghai’s artist-run art
space BizArt in 1997 and founded
Shanghai-based conceptual
cultural production company
MadeIn in 2010.
Zhang
Hui is a member of the post-‘89
generation of Chinese artists.
He received his BFA in Theatre
Design from the Central Academy
of Drama. In the past five
years Zhang has dedicated
himself to a painting practice
that interprets theatricality
as a sense of physical awareness
and a mental space through
which we further understand
our relationship to ideas
of lived and imagined realities.
Long
March Supporting Team
Zoe
Butt is curator and artistic
director of San Art (Programs
and Development), Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam. She is also
Curatorial Manager for Post
Vi-Dai, a private collection
of contemporary Vietnamese
art based in Ho Chi Minh City
and Geneva. Previously she
was Director, International
Programs, Long March Project.
She played a significant role
in the development of “Long
March Project—Ho Chi Minh
Trail” and has continued to
contribute her knowledge to
the project.
Sheryl
Cheung is an artist and assistant
curator managing international
programs at Long March Space.
Sheryl was a participant in
the Long March Education residency
in 2009 and is the International
Manager of the Ho Chi Minh
Trail Project.
Dong
Jun is an artist and professor
of photography at Xi’an Art
Academy, Xi’an. His most recent
documentary film, Flood (2008),
records stories from Sanmenxia,
Henan province, China. Dong
Jun was one of the main cameramen
for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Project journey.
Du
Keke is a reporter and translator
for LEAP, one of China’s leading
bilingual magazines for contemporary
art. She was the English-Chinese
translator for the traveling
team.
Jiang
Yizhou is Assistant to Director
of Long March Space and the
main administrator for the
journey.
Luo
Wenhong is a sociologist and
master's candidate in anthropology
at the People’s University
of China. Her current research
focuses on international and
global art communities.
Song
Yi is an assistant curator
and manager of exhibitions
at Long March Space. He received
his B.F.A. from Sichuan Fine
Art Institute. He was a main
facilitator of the Yanchuan
County Primary School Papercutting
Art Education Project (2006–10)
and the project manager of
Long March Education: Rhizome
Forum (2009–11).
Weng
Zhenqi is an artist and master's
candidate in art theory at
China Academy of Art. Weng
is particularly interested
in film and political philosophy.
He was one of the main cameramen
for Ho Chi Minh Trail Project
journey.
Xu
Tingting is an assistant
curator and project manager
of the Long March Project
Ho Chi Minh Trail Project.
She received an M.A. in
curating from Kingston University,
London.
Long
March Education Platform
1 – Ho Chi Minh Trail
Residents
Erin
Gleeson
Di
Tuong Linh
Francesca
Sonora
Kim
Jung Won
Nguyen
Nhu Huy
Nguyen
Quang Vinh
Rattana
Vandy
Weng
Zhenqi
Wang
Yang
Viet
Le
Ye
Nan
Ye
Si
Lecturers
Xiao
Xiong
Dong
Jun
Liang
Shuo
Qiu
Zhijie
Gao
Shiming
Xin
Danwen
Feng
Mengbo
Chen
Shaoxiong
Wang
Jianwei
Long March Project would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their generous support:
Organizations
Bophana
Audiovisual Centre
DIA/PROJECTS
Goethe
Institute (Hanoi)
Hanoi
Fine Art University
Himiko
Café
Ho
Chi Minh City University of
Fine Arts
Institute
of Contemporary Art and Social
Thought, China Academy of
Art
Laos
Academy of Social Sciences
Meta
House
New
Space Arts Foundation
Nha
San House
Reyum
Institute of Art and Culture
Sa
Sa Art Gallery
Shanghai
Biennial Office
Vietnam
Academy of Social Sciences
Yxine
Individuals
Boi
Tran
Boitran
Huynh-Beattie
Cao
Weihong
Chanthaphilith
Chiemsisouraj
Chen
Chieh-jen
Chen
Guangxing
Chen
Guanzhong
Chhounni
Synan
Chrek
Sophea
Chum
Noy
Chum
Reap
Dana
Langlois
Dang
Hoang Giang
Dao
Chau Hai
Ly
Daravuth
David
Spalding
Davy
Chou
Dinh
Q Le
Dinh
Y Nhi
Do
Tuong Linh
Duong
Tuong
Ellen
Christie
Em
Saeim
Fan
Honggui
Feng
Mengbo
Fleur
Bourgeois-Smith
Guo
Xiaoyan
Hoang
Dieu
Horikawa
Lisa
Jane
DeBevoise
Joseph
Ng
Kim
Jung Won
Kongphat
Luangrath
Le
Duc Hai
Le
Ho Viet
Le
Quy Anh Hao
Liang
Zhiming
Ly
Doi
Ly
Hoang Ly
Lydia
Parusol
Lyno
Vuth
Michael
Degregorio
Misouda
Heuang Souk Khoun
Natalia
Kraevskaia
Ngo
Dinh Truc
Ngo
Van Luc
Nguyen
Andrew Tuan
Nguyen
Duc Tu
Nguyen
Himiko
Nguyen
Quan
Nguyen
Quang Vinh
Nguyen
Thu Giang
Nguyen
Trang Thi Thuy
Nguyen
Trinh Thi
Nguyen
Van Huy
Nguyen
Van Minh
Nguyen
Xuan Thang
Nora
Taylor
Pauline
J. Yao
Pham
Huy Thong
Pham
Toan
Phoebe
Scott
Ravuth
Heng
Richard
Streitmatter-Tran
Seckon
Leang
Shen
Lin
Sim
Sitho
Shu
Kewen
Sonora
Francesca
Sophie
Hughes
Steven
Sunwoo Lee
Stock
Emiko
Su
Boxin
Tith
Kanitha
To
Lan
Tran
Luong
Wang
Chun-chen
Wu
Yanan
Yon
Davy
Zhang
Xunchang
Zheng
Bo