Dialogue

Documentation of installation, and performance: 11.10 am, 5th February, 1989, China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Beijing.

Red Brick Art Museum Collection

© Xiao Lu

Intro

The original idea of Dialogue is from Xiao Lu’s confusion of personal feelings and the loss of emotional life made her fall into a self-contradictory state. Just as the work shows, a man and a woman are making a phone call, however, the telephone hanging in the middle obviously tells people that their conversation is not smooth. This complex and contradictory psychological state is the original conception of the installation and shooting work of Dialogue. At 11:10 am on 5th February, 1989, during the opening ceremony of the China/Avant-Garde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Xiao Lu raised a gun and fired two shots at her installation work Dialogue, which directly led to the closure of the exhibition.