Not exact matches
Create a picture time line
tracing the development of the wheel and simple tools in the ancient world, and
subsequent developments of technological inventions, control of the elements, and
work.
Projected onto folded cardboard, American artist Patty Chang's poetic and politically charged moving - image
work The Wandering Lake (2009) documents Chang's search for the Wandering Lake of Xinjiang, a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert; her
subsequent travel to the shrinking Aral Sea, which has lost 70 percent of its water as a result of Soviet irrigation projects; and her
tracing of the course of the aqueduct that brings water from Southern China to Beijing.
Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century pays tribute to this seminal
work and
traces the
subsequent elaboration of neo-dada practices, with a particular focus upon everyday and vernacular contexts; the mysterious and libidinous potential of sculptural objects; institutional critique and nominal modes of artistic value; pop, minimalism and industrial manufacture.