Contemporary Shroud Fashion
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 1998
Release Year: 1998
Publish Date: 09 February 2024 00:00:00 UTC
Story:
Li Wake travelled to Beijing in June 1998 with a desperate post-modernist passion and had models dressed in his "shroud fashion" walk through the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, Wangfujing and other venues, and virtually performed a "living dead" shroud fashion show in front of a crowd of people. The footage was then mixed with clips from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and edited into an MTV format, which was projected onto the wide screen of the Beijing Theatre, where the shroud fashion models moved from the outside of the theatre into the inside of the theatre, walking freely in front of the screen, occasionally delivering ballots to the mailboxes. At this point, revolutionary songs, Enya's score, and funeral marches alternate, and a poppy patchwork of music, video acts, and props combine to form a kind of absurd self-eulogy-like martyrdom ritual.
Li Wake travelled to Beijing in June 1998 with a desperate post-modernist passion and had models dressed in his "shroud fashion" walk through the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, Wangfujing and other venues, and virtually performed a "living dead" shroud fashion show in front of a crowd of people. The footage was then mixed with clips from Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and edited into an MTV format, which was projected onto the wide screen of the Beijing Theatre, where the shroud fashion models moved from the outside of the theatre into the inside of the theatre, walking freely in front of the screen, occasionally delivering ballots to the mailboxes. At this point, revolutionary songs, Enya's score, and funeral marches alternate, and a poppy patchwork of music, video acts, and props combine to form a kind of absurd self-eulogy-like martyrdom ritual.
Casts & Crews:
Li Wake
Directors
Runtime:
33
minutes
Language:
Mandarin
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Tags:
#Irony, #black-humour, #folklore
Director‘s Statement:
The unconsciousness of the group, the rabble and the herd effect, under the will of power, devours the lives of living individuals, depriving them of their creativity and possibilities. Heidegger called out "to death, but in", which means to live after death, trying to activate the individual life drowned in the ocean of group blindness. It is not difficult to understand: I transformed the Chinese characteristic "shroud suit" into a fashion for workers, peasants, soldiers, academics and businessmen, and put it into performance art, letting shroud suit fashion models walk through Beijing's Wangfujing, Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and Tiananmen Square in order to make it widely known. For the first time, the contemporary shroud fashion show fuses the Western philosophy of life with the Chinese characteristics of the shroud, sublimating it into a "meaningful fashion" for the survivors who do not want to be in the crowd to choose the style to walk alone.
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