Long March Project Information

Long March Project is an ongoing curatorial and institutional practice initiated in 1999, and begun in 2002. Its multifaceted practices including collective walks, discussions, writing group, and visual displays among others. By introducing China's revolutionary "Long March" (1934-36) as the guiding metaphor, it potentiates the discursive lines of enquiry into a range of different Long March Projects in China and abroad. In it, the 'Long Marchers' practice across various geographies, discussing ideas of revolutionary memory in the present-days context, and collaborating with participants from around the world to reinterpret historical consciousness and develop new ways of perceiving political, social, economical, and cultural realities. The authorship of Long March Project aims to provocatively rewrite the presumed discursive framework of contemporary art. The ongoing journey of the Long March Project can be conceived as: 1. a process of movement through space, time, or thought without a fixed beginning or end, involving multiple transformations 2. a methodology which stresses adaptation to local and temporal circumstances, focused on artistic, social and educative activities that are designed to interrogate contemporary visual economies 3. an artistic intervention, operating on a national and international platform, in collaboration with artists and an increasing range of public, private and independent arts organizations and individuals.