Aglaia Konrad, China Rushes, vidéos

CHINA RUSHES


Unedited observations: men pulling a big metal tank over the road; women sitting besides a walkway, waiting and talking; people waiting in the train station hall with voluminous, improvised packages; ships passing in a harbor (Shanghai); people on bikes and mopeds impatiently waiting for the lights to change; a loud ghetto blaster playing waltz music in the park while people dance in full concentration and seemingly without a trace of enjoyment; traffic spiraling up towards a bridge; a truck leaving a smoke-black cloud behind it as it climbs, weighed down by its heavy load; people in a misty park wandering around without direction, staring directly at the camera lens; two people waiting, sitting on loads, talking and gesticulating franticly; an unoccupied waitress rearranging empty cups and glasses to loud music at the far end of a hall; etc. etc. (From A to K, 2016)

Aglaia Konrad,China Rushes, vidéo

Aglaia Konrad

China Rushes, 2009

20 moniteurs, vidéo, couleurs, son


- China Rushes #01 Shenzen Tower 2006, Beijing 2000, Shanghai 2000, Chongquing 2006

- China Rushes #02 Chongquing 2006

- China Rushes #03 Shanghai 2000, Chongquing 2006, Shanghai 2000

- China Rushes #04 Chongquing 2006, Guangzhou 2006, Beijing 2000, Shanghai 2000

- China Rushes #05 Hongkong 2006, Shanghai 2000

- China Rushes #06 Beijing 2000, Shanghai 2000

- China Rushes #07 Guangzhou to Shanghai 2005

- China Rushes #08 Shanghai 2000, Beijing 2000

- China Rushes #09 Beijing 2006, Shanghai 2000

- China Rushes #10 Chongquing 2006

- China Rushes #11 Hongkong 2006

- China Rushes #12 Lhasa 2006

- China Rushes #13 Beijing 2000, 2006, Shenzen 2006, Hongkong 2006

- China Rushes #14 Beijing 2000, 2006, Shanghai 2000, Chengdu 2006

- China Rushes #15 Hongkong 2006, Beijing 2000, Chongquing 2006, - Shanghai 2000 China Rushes #16 Guangzhou 2006

- China Rushes #17 Shanghai 2000, Beijing 2000

- China Rushes #18 Hongkong 2006

- China Rushes #19 Beijing 2000

- China Rushes #20 Chengdu 2006