Selected Solo Exhibitions
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| 2000 |
Song Dong in London,
installation and performance, Tablet, London, UK |
| 1999 |
Jump, performance, Tian An
Men, Beijing, and Venice, Italy |
| 1998 |
Temporary Office
Construction, Video installation and performance, Tao
Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1997 |
Slap, video installation,
Ruin for Arts, Berlin, Germany
1997.6.30 - 1997.7.1 60 min, performance, Shenzhen, China
Filling up the Sea With 158 Stones ( 1840-1997),
environmental performance, Shenzhen, China
LOOK, video installation, Contemporary Art Gallery,
Beijing, China |
| 1996 |
Taking It Out of A Brocade
Bag, Video installation, Forty-One Middle-High School,
Beijing, China
Stamping the Water, performance, Lasa River, Tibet
Uncovering, video installation, Capital Normal University
Museum, Beijing, China
Still Breathing, performance, Tian An Men and Hou Hai,
Beijing, China |
| 1995 |
Heavenly Secret, sound
installation, Hou Hai Teahouse,Beijing, China
Bei Fang, installation, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
Secret-Divulging, Installation, Ban Shang Hu Tong,
Beijing, China |
| 1995 |
Chinese Medicine,
installation, Bao Fang Hu Tong No.12, Beijing, China
Stone-Throwing, environmental performance shown in China,
Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany, USA, Macau, Italy,
Austria, France, India, Britain
Diary with Water, private and personal, ongoing |
| 1994 |
Life with Cultural Noodles,
Installation, Ban Shang Hu Tong No.23, Beijing, China
Video and installation, Forty-One Middle-High School,
Beijing, China
Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?, installation
show and performance, Central Academy of Fine arts
Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1992 |
Show of oil painting, Culture
Palace, Beijing, China
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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| 2001 |
Art Chicago 2001, Navy Pier,
USA
Art 32 Basel, Switzerland
Art Palm Beach, USA |
| 2000 |
The Flying Circus Project,
Singapore
Worldwide Video Festival, Amsterdam
Cancel, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany
Home: Chinese Contemporary Art Show, Shanghai, China
New Conceptual Photography: China Scene, Century Theatre
Gallery, Beijing, China
Microwave Festival 2000, Hong Kong
At the New Century, 1979 - 1999 Contemporary Art of China
Invitation Arts Exhibition, Chengdu Contemporary Art
Museum, China |
| 1999 |
Amsterdam Fest, Holland
Khoj International Artists Workshop, India
Cities on the Move 7, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland
Beijing Document, Goethe Institute, Beijing, China
I Am Here, Bad Ems, Germany
Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video Art, Macau
Contemporary Art Centre, Macau
Supermarker, Art for Sale, Shanghai, China
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of The Twentieth
Century, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Transmedial - 99, The Ninth Video Fest, Berlin, Germany |
| 1998 |
It's Me! A Profile of
Chinese Contemporary Art in the '90s, Forbidden City, Tai
Mao, Beijing, China
Inside Out: New Chinese Art Exhibition, P.S.1.
Contemporary (touring exhibition) Art Center, New York,
USA
Space and Vision, Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, China
Site Art Project, Tokyo, Japan
Transmedial - 98, The Eight Video Fest, Berlin, Germany
Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of China
Contemporary Art '98, Art Now Studio, Beijing, China |
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1997-1998 |
Wildlife Starting from 1997
Jingzhe, off-site project directed bySong Dong at Beijing,
Shanghai, Chengdu and Guangzhou, China
'97 Contemporary Art in Fuzhou, Fujian, China |
| 1997 |
Borderline, Steirischer
Herbst '97, Graz, Austria
Demonstration of Video Art '97 China, Central Academy of
Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Sculpture and Installation Exhibition in Nanshan,
Shenzhen, China
Suwon City - Beijing, China |
| 1996 |
First Academic Exhibition of
Chinese Contemporary Art, China
National Gallery and Capital Normal University Museum,
Beijing, China
'96 Chinese Contemporary Art Reality: Present and Future,
International Art Palace's Gallery, Beijing, China
'96 International Com-Art Show in Suwon (with artists
participating from China, Korea and Japan), Suwon City,
Korea
Keeper of Water, United Project for Outdoor Experiment
with International Artist, Tibet
In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Documents of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Q Gallery, Japan
Out of he White Cube, Hong Kong |
| 1995 |
Art Critics' Nomination Show
of Sculpture and Installation,Beijing, China
File No.1 Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, New
York
Open Your Eyes, Close Your Mouth, Beijing and Berlin
Communication Exhibition, Capital Normal University
Museum, Beijing, China
'95 Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
New Asian Art Show (with artists participating from China,
Korea and Japan), Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
'95 outdoor Art, Beijing, China
Sound, Performance, Beijing, China |
| 1994 |
'94 International Com-Art
Show in Beijing (with artists participating from China,
Korea and Japan), Capital Normal University Museum,
Beijing, China
'94 Outdoor Art, Beijing, China
POST-OCTOBER 1ST, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China
Hanmuo Art Agenda, Hanmuo Art Centre, Beijing, China
The Third Document Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art,
Shanghai, China |
| 1993 |
Exhibition of Modern Art in
China, Singapore |
| 1992 |
The First Biennial Art
Exhibition, Guangzhou, China |
| 1991 |
The First Annual Exhibition
of Chinese Oil Painting, Chinese History Museum, Beijing,
China |
| 1990 |
Art Exhibition of Chinese Oil
Painting, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan |
| 1989 |
The seventh National
Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, China |
| 1988 |
New Time Painting Exhibition,
China National Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1987 |
The First National Exhibition
of oil Painting, Shanghai, China
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Publication
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| 2000 |
Award to Cai Guoqiang and
Award to Rent Collector's Courtyard, websites,
Chinese-art.com
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Artist Statement
Contrary to the enclosed
and protective private realm that governs the imagery of
'Parents', Song Dong approaches the same social space of
a home openly and permissively, as demonstrated by his
photographic installation Family Members, 1998.
Projecting the Song family portrait onto a screen, the
artist invited museum visitors to stand in for any of
the family members in the portrait. He then photographed
the participants, so the completed work resembled a
pseudo-Song Song family portrait, peopled by strangers
who 'displaced' or, more accurately, overlapped with the
original occupants. The Song family was photographed in
diverse urban spaces, such as handsome home or racy
Beijing Street, indicating the switch from private to
public space. The involvement of strangers in Song
Dong's work represents a welcome public intrusion upon
privacy.
Like Wang Jinsong's
parents, the Song family is arranged in a strict frontal
view: Song's parents are placed in the centre, his
brother and sister-in-law and their daughter to their
right, and the artist and his wife (also a successful
artist) to their left. The composition mirrors the
patriarchal domination that compels prosperous Chinese
families. But in Family Members strangers are welcome to
replace any family members, regardless of age and sex.
According to the artist's report, many men took over the
father figure in the centre, and young women superseded
the artist's wife to the far left. Without the presence
of the actual family members, a purely visual, non
verbal connection is established between the family and
the strangers. In other words, the work allows for the
articulation of ambivalent relationships, just as
dreams, according to Freud, are often 'disguised
fulfillments of repressed wishes'. In his psychoanalysis
Freud characterized such dream experiences as
‘displacement’ and ‘condensation’. Not surprisingly, in
Song Dong's daydreaming displacements game, male
participants continue to desire authority and power in a
patriarchal system (the Symbolic), where females crave
romance or 'extramarital affairs' (the Imaginary). The
incited stranger interferes freely with the family and
yet no matter how many 'break-ins' take place, the
family/marriage/ tradition model remains intact.
by “Art Asia Pacific Magazine”
Issue 25
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