March 7-April 21, 2012
Opening Reception March 6, 6-8pm
Curated by Jay Brown
Artist Talk with Jay Brown Wednesday, March 14, 7pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 12-6pm

Shot in the highland villages of the Jade Dragon Naxi Autonomous
Prefecture of Lijiang, Yunnan, China in 2006 and 2007, this composite of video, sound,
and still images chronicles the encounters of the Manchurian video artist Na Yingyu among the Naxi
people in the sandy pines at the foothills of the Himalaya. This area of the world hosts a richness
of land, family, music, ritual and the natural beauty that someone in the video describes as
“home”. The massive new video installation, consisting of of 59 video “chapters” is arranged as
constellations in a starry night sky.

Entangled in these chapters are the ongoing politics of minority ethnicity and cultural
representation in China, the disappearance of traditional knowledge (the old priest He Xun simply
says, “the book has been lost”), the stable rhythms of farm work, the loss of a father, the dangers
of pyramid marketing, the awkwardness of American high school students.

Na Yingyu organizes his material into chapters which lie, as he puts it, “on a möbius strip” so
they can be seen in any order, or simultaneously.

Our Homeland! Gone Just Like That, uses this particular structure, the reveries of sound and image, and certain narratives to explore the Lijiang area and its particular crisis in the trasnmission of knowledge.

[Show as slideshow]

Na Yingyu is a Chinese artist, born in 1973 in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, he lives and works in Beijing. Na Yingyu has exhibited extensively in China, Brazil and Israel. Our Homeland! Gone Just Like That will be Na Yingyu’s first solo show in the United States.

PRESS::
Sino Vision : Video

Location One is extremely grateful to The NY State Council on
the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Lijiang Studio, Lashihai, China and Location One’s International Committee for making
these events possible.