

CREDITS
Created by
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Ning Li
Director: Li Ning
Cast:
Li Ning, Li Qingfeng, Yun Qing, Xiao Wei, Li Ya, Qin Lei, Wang Yao, Xu Hao, Cong Jun, Zhang Xi, Hu Sheng, Wen Qing, Wan Yong, Wan Ru
Cinematography:
Li Ning, Ge Weihan, Yang Wanru, Zhang Daozheng, Wang Geng, Zhang Xi
Music:
Cui Jian, Huang Jin, Tom Lee Pettersen, Huang Liang Gongzhu
Over many years, my research into and use of tape grew into an obsession, even a kind of madness. I restaged it on stage, tore at it in daily life, and found myself stuck to it in the depths of thought. There was nowhere I did not resonate and co-exist with it.
In this kind of magical realm, everything I do is destined to become the absurdity within absurdity, and ultimately to slide into futility and embarrassment.
As major national events unfold one after another, I am swept into all kinds of extreme actions. There, I finally use my own body to reconstruct “reality” and reach an artistic state where it merges seamlessly with the “surreal”.
But in the end, I become a single photograph, pressed by the forces of society onto a job application form, forced to run as a tiny component within the vast social machine.
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