Artist Yang Fudong Summons the Future in One of His Biggest Exhibitions in China
In his third year of college, the artist Yang Fudong decided to stop speaking. For what became Otherwhere: Not Speaking for Three Months (1993), he communicated largely by writing on his hand or signage. Sometimes he even traced his finger on a cold window and breathed to reveal the words outlined by condensation.Near the end of his period of silence, he wanted his first words to be something profound. He took a bus to the Tiantong Temple on the outskirts of the southern Chinese city Ningbo and
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