wiredinUSA September 2014

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Wire finds its way into every area of modern life. Now, female Chinese artist, Zhou Jie is spending 36 days living in an art gallery, and sleeping naked on an iron wire bed. Since 9 th August, Jie has been sleeping, eating, washing and using her mobile ‘phone in front of onlookers at Beijing's Art Now Gallery. Although the artist hasn't revealed the reasoning behind her exhibit, crowds of Beijing art goers have passed through the Art NowGallery to watch her. The project finishes on 13 th September. The art project has attracted attention in an online Chinese publication, with locals 36 days of wire

questioning its artistic value. One viewer commented on website chinaSMACK: “Look at Korean performance art, then look at domestic ones. Is art in our country only streaking? No wonder women in our country have a lower and lower sense of shame, all a result of these garbage artists streaking everyday!” Another reviewer wrote: “So this is a so-called artist; very unreliable.” Zhou Jie will spend some of her time weaving ‘plush toy’ shapes from iron wire.

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