May 4 | Wu Tsang: Duilian Last Month

Spring is closed this weekend;
reopens May 10-22, 2016
for the last weeks of Duilian
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I’m just telling the stories that are important to me. I don’t consider [Qiu Jin] to be marginal because it’s central to me. I’m interested in how that word [marginal] operates in relation to identity; it presumes that there is a centre. She’s a vessel. This idea of the martyr or the hero, or even the love story, that’s a vessel. Who doesn’t love a love story? Or a tragic love story. It provides a structure, a kind of formula to say a lot of other complex things.

        — Wu Tsang, “A conversation with Wu Tsang,”
Ocula (read full article)

PLEASE NOTE: This week Spring will be closed from Thursday, May 5 through Monday, May 9, and will reopen on Tuesday, May 10.

In just over two weeks, Duilian will travel to Berlin for the 9th Berlin Bienniale.  If you have time, come watch or re-watch Duilian and pick up our special ‘zine containing original and mistranslated poetry before it goes. Please also stay tuned for further details on a special finissage event to mark the end of Duilian on Sunday, May 22.

Wu Tsang
Duilian

Exhibition dates

March 13 – May 22, 2016*
Open Tues-Sun & public holidays
12pm – 6pm

*PLEASE NOTE: The exhibition will close between May 5 (Thur) – May 9 (Mon) and will re-open on May 10 (Tues).

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Duilian is a film installation that is part of a decade-long research project by visual artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang. The multi-media exhibition centers on Duilian, a newly-commissioned experimental film that interprets the life and writings of the famous Chinese revolutionary Qiu Jin (秋瑾1875-1907) through visual and martial arts. The work is a culmination of Wu Tsang’s two three-month residencies at Spring Workshop last year.

Duilian is commissioned and produced by Spring Workshop, with co-commissioners Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for BIM 2016, Arthub Asia, and 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, with support from Nottingham Contemporary, the Fonds d’Art Contemporain de la Ville et du Canton de Genève and In Between Art Film. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
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Date Now – May 22
Time 12 – 6pm
Location Spring
Event Exhibition, film installation
Cost
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