Manchurian Snow Walk, an early conceptual artwork by John Young is included in the exhibition A Moment in Extended Crisis, now open at UTS Gallery, Sydney curated by Andy Butler.
As Butler writes:
‘John Young’s Manchurian Snow Walk (1979) acts as an historical and conceptual touchstone for this exhibition . . . shown here as a performance documentation with instructions, [the work] was performed three years after the death of Mao. Young was sent away from Hong Kong in 1967 at 11 years old by his family, to protect him from the Cultural Revolution. As a 23-year-old art student, deeply entrenched in the Conceptualism, Minimalism, and Land Art movements of the 1970s, Young’s father bought him a train ticket to the farthest corner of mainland China for reasons still unknown, and too late to discover. Young traipsed back and forth from a single point, tracing lines in the snow, with the indication of his presence bound to disappear.’
The exhibition runs until 28 June 2024.
