This idea was shaped upon the project 40+4 but it is extended to analyse the artistic landscape in Bejing through interviews that cover two decades of history starting from 1995, then 1998 and finally and ideally Beijing 2008. We have altogether 150 hours of footage filmed by Daria Menozzi. This footage has already been digitalized with the support of Arthub.
We will reduce the artists’s number from 40 to 10 in order to manage the documentation in the most efficient way (10 artists interviewed ¾ times in the last 20 years). Of course the project can be enlarged depending on funding available.
The interview’s technique will be the same as for Shanghai but the set of questions will change according to the original questions presented in the historical material we have.
When possible we would like to keep questions as much similar as possible to all the artists interviewed.
With this process we will be able to create a conversation with the same artist-self and with the same questions that cover almost 20 years of their activities and, more important, their life.
Technique and other practical notes
We would like to use the same shooting ideas keeping a style of camera that has been used for the previous shooting by Daria Menozzi. In this case the camera will be fixed: a proper documentary setting.
Olivo Barbieri will document the artists interviews with a series of photographic portraits.
List of the artists:
Liu Wei, Wang Guangyi, Feng Mengbo, Lin Tianmiao, Gu Dexin, Ai Weiwei, Wang Jianwei, Zhang Yonghe, Zeng Fanghi, Yan Lei + two curators (tbc)
The outcome
The outcome will be:
1. A video installation and most probably also a one channel film/documentary.
2. Portraits of artists by Olivo Barbieri
3. A book/catalogue
