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Lana Lin

No Power to Push Up the Sky

    RELEASE

    2001-10-06

    BUGET

    N/A

    LENGTH

    23 min

    Description

    For No Power to Push Up the Sky, fifteen people translate an interview with student protest leader Chai Ling conducted in Beijing on May 28, 1989, one week before the Tiananmen Square massacre. The video positions translation as interpretive and demonstrates the complex process of locating meaning across language, culture, and politics.

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