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Basic Chinese - photographs

Basic Chinese - Studying by numbers

Ball-Point drawings and post card works - works on paper

Homeland Security - why I am not a terrorist - video stills and movie

Bicycling Hong Kong - a risky return of the repressed video stills and movie

Kai Tak International Airport - the good use of an airport as a private playground - video stills and movie

Installation views - Artist Commune, Hong Kong

I WANNA BE CHINESE

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BASIC CHINESE (Photographs), 2005

 

These Basic Chinese photographs are part of diffrent series of basic language photographs. (see here) In each case (with few exceptions) the texts are were taken from my study manuals - in this case a book printied in Bejing in the mid 1990s - which ads yet another little ambivalent aspect to this series of images taken in Hong Kong - since the main language is not Mandarin but Cantonese. My study manual which I am still using , is in Mandarin.

 

 

Basic Chinese, I don't have to get her approval for such a matter, 2005

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Basic Chinese, The facial makeup was very special, 2005

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Basic Chinese, Six a. m.? That's just when I'm having nice dreams, 2005

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Basic Chinese, Does everyone ride a bicycle in China?, 2005

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Basic Chinese, I'm thinking about my hometown, south of the Changjiang River, 2005

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Basic Chinese, Raising my head I gaze at the moon; Lowering it I miss my hometown, 2005

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Basic Chinese,Of course not. Gambling is illegal in China, 2005

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Basic Chinese, If you want to live you have to work, 2005

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Basic Chinese, In addition to this, the old folks are fond of keeping birds, ..., 2005

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Basic Chinese, Of course, the European team is stronger, 2005

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index

Basic Chinese - photographs

Basic Chinese - Studying by numbers

Ball-Point drawings and post card works - works on paper

Homeland Security - why I am not a terrorist - video stills and movie

Bicycling Hong Kong - a risky return of the repressed video stills and movie

Kai Tak International Airport - the good use of an airport as a private playground - video stills and movie

Installation views - Artist Commune, Hong Kong