Zhang Peili

The Distance of a Kilometre, 2 Channel Video projection, sound, colour 26’33” /PAL on 2 rear projection screens, 2010

Zhang Peili (b.1957, Hangzhou) is a senior artist who emerged in the frst wave of Chinese contemporary art in the 1980s. His video work 30’ X 30’ (1988) has been regarded as the frst piece of video art in China. In The Distance of a Kilometre, the two screens show two people’s point of view, each holding a video recorder while walking a kilometre along the same street but from opposing directions. As the walkers get closer with their cameras the image progressively degrades as the distance between then diminishes. The electronic disturbance and noise increases until the images are unreadable – a mediated deconstruction of representational space.

《直线距离一公里》，双频录像投影，有声，彩色，26分33秒， 2010

张培力（生于1957年，中国杭州）在80 年代积极的参与了中国当代艺术的启蒙运动，他制作了中国 第一部录像艺术品 《30 X 30 》(1988)。《直线距离一公里》在两个视频中表现的景观是来自两个携 带录像机的人在一公里的距离内互相走近并拍摄对方， 不过在他们接近对方的同时，双方的录制图 像也逐渐丧失清晰度，直到不可辨认。

Above: stills of The Distance of a Kilometre. Right: installation view of The Distance of a Kilometre at Guangdong Museum of Art.

上图： 《直线距离一公里》的视频截图；下图：在广东美术馆的装置现场。