Pioneering Video Artist Zhang Peili on Pushing the Boundaries of Media
Just 10 years after Deng Xiaoping, the former leader of the People’s Republic of China, launched the country’s sweeping economic reforms, a time when television and video cameras were still largely inaccessible to the general public, the artist Zhang Peili made a revolutionary artwork. His 1988 single-channel video 30 x 30, a 180-minute unedited recording…