Huang Yongping <Two-Minute Wash Cycle>, 1987
On December 1, 1987, Huang Yong Ping placed a classical Chinese art history book and a Western art history book into a washing machine and washed them for two minutes. These two long-standing histories were transformed into a pile of unreadable pulp within two minutes. (1)
The books end up as pulp, The books end up as pulp, symbolizing that the misunderstandings between different cultures are perpetuated. This work made me realize that I see the world through the influence of multi-culture.
Reference
(1) Dawei, F. (2005). Two-Minute Wash Cycle: Huang Yong Ping’s Chinese Period. House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective, 6-10. Retrieve from https://walkerart.org/magazine/two-minute-wash-cycle














