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united nations project time line
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united nations- china monument |
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united nations- China monument: the Great Wall of People a site-specific installation for the millennium art museum, china albright knox gallery, buffalo 2004 |
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united hexagon a site-specific installation commissioned by the art gallery of the university of pittsburgh, 2004 |
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nations: united 7561 kilometers a site-specific installation commissioned by the national endowment for the arts, the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts, the texas commission on the arts 2002. 40 feet high x 25 feet wide x 25 feet long 5000 m human hair braid made of 7561000 m of human hair, rubber stamps of recreated 191 nations’ names of the world, a hair column 1 m human hair = 0.00529 g, a 50 m hair braid = 0.4 kg (400 g), 5000m human hair braid = 7561kilometers (4698 miles) |
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nations- australia monument: epnagcliifsihc* a site-specific installation for national gallery of australia, canberra, australia, 2001 an installation made of australian and asian hair 900 cm x 1500 cm x 1200 cm permanent collection of national gallery of australia |
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nations: temple of exoticisms a site-specific installation for 5th lyon biennale, lyon, france, 2000 an entirely human hair made temple(13’ x 52’ x 20’)of pseudo-chinese, roman, hindi, arabic and synthesized latin-chinese(ceiling). chinese ming dynasty and french louise xv style furniture with tv monitors, a video film heaven. |
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nations: man & space a site-specific installation commissioned by 3rd kwangju biennale, south korea and hispid company, japan, 2000 a wall of the complete national flags of the world made of human hair 7600 cm x 800 cm |
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great wall of the millennium a site-specific installation for the art gallery of new york state university at buffalo, 2000 |
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the wall of the millennium script an installation, collection of hanart gallery, hong kong, china. taiwan museum of art 1999, touring exhibition power of word in america, 1999-2001 a wall of pseudo chinese, english and synthesized english-chinese made entirely of human hair 40 feet tall x 48 feet wide collection of hanart gallery, hong kong, china |
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nations: babble of the millennium a site-specific installation for san francisco museum of modern art, 1999 an entirely human hair made tower of nonsensical pseudo-chinese, english, hindi, arabic and synthesized english-chinese. 75 feet high x 34 feet in diameter a permanent collection of san francisco museum of modern art |
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nations- china monument: temple of heaven a site-specific installation commissioned by the asia society for inside out, ps1 contemporary art center, new york city, usa, 1998 an entirely human hair made temple of pseudo-chinese, english, hindi, arabic and synthesized english-chinese, chinese ming dynasty’s furniture tv monitors, a video film heaven. 13 feet x 52 feet x 20 feet a permanent collection of hong kong museum of art |
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nations-canadian monument: the metamorphosis a site-specific installation for morris & helen belkin gallery, the university of british columbia, vancouver, canada, 1998 entirely made of human hair 20 feet x 85 feet x 30 feet |
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nations-africa monument: the world praying wall a site-specific installation for second johannesburg biennale, institute of contemporary art, johannesburg, south africa, 1997 a wall of pseudo-english, chinese, hindi, arabic and world ethnical maps made of human hair with african shorn hair on the ground. a performance with south african choreographer nomsa manaka 40 feet x 44 feet |
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nations-hong kong monument: the historical clash collection of hanart gallery, hong kong, china. a site-specific installation for hong kong handover 1997 hong kong and british hair, rice collections of david tang and hanart gallery |
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nations-taiwan monument: the mythos of lost dynasties a site-specific installation, hanart gallery, taipei, taiwan, 1997 a chinese graveyard constructed by ink paintings and taiwanese shorn hair. a performance blackness. courtesy hanart gallery, taipei, taiwan, 1997 |
| 1996 |
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nations-britain monument: the maze a site-specific installation, angel row gallery in nottingham, camerawork in london, england, 1996 a british hair made curtain with one english sentence in chinese classical written format, “once upon a time there was a british merchant who said(past tense)imagine if every chinese wears one more inch of clothing(present tense)” a british garden “maze” is constructed by british hair made union jack; complete national flags of british commonwealth and british shorn hair. |
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nations-sweden & russia monument: interpol a site-specific installation for international exhibition interpol, center for contemporary art & architecture, stockholm, sweden, contemporary art center of moscow, 1996 an 84 feet swedish hair tunnel, a rocket of swedish royal airforce, an european community flag 84 feet x 7 feet x 10 feet |
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nations-usa monument 2: dreamerica |
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nations-israel monument: the holy land a site-specific permanent landart for fifth construction in process, israeli cultural minister& the artists museum tel-aviv center, israel, 1995 thirty jewish hair covered jerusalem pink limestone in mitzpe ramon desert |
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nations-usa monument 1: post-cmoellotniinaglpiostm* a site-specific installation, space untitled gallery, new york city, usa, 1995 an installation is constructed by mixed native-, caucasian-, latino-, and asian-american hair curtain walls, hair bricks, and hair carpets. a future national flag of the usa made of also mixed american hair. *a nonsensical word created by synthesizing “melting pot” & “colonialism” |
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nations-holland monument: v.o.c.-w.i.c.* a site-specific installation for heart of darkness, the kroller-muller museum, the netherlands, 1994 dutch hair curtain walls, hair rooms, hair carpets mixed with pages of dutch colonial history books *v.o.c. & w.i.c. were dutch east indian & west indian shipping companies during dutch colonial periods |
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nations-italy monument: god & children a site-specific installation, enrico gariboldi arte contemporanea, milan, italy, 1994 an italian temple is constructed entirely by italian hair bricks, hair curtain walls, hair carpets, and hair column |
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nations-poland monument: hospitalized history museum a site-specific installation for 4th construction in process, history museum of lodz & the artists museum, lodz, poland, 1993 polish hair, local mental hospital sheets, beds, and the collections of history museum of lodz.  |