Art:21 | Cao Fei | Season 5 Preview (October 2009)
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Uploaded by art21org on Jul 30, 2009
This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode "Fantasy," premiering on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
"Fantasy" presents four artists — Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, and Florian Maier-Aichen — whose hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime works transport us to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness.
Cao Fei's work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Applying strategies of sampling, role play, and documentary filmmaking to capture individuals longings and the ways in which they imagine themselves—as hip-hop musicians, costumed characters, or digitized alter egos—Cao reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China's younger generation.
Learn more about Cao Fei: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-fei
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