After only six weeks, threatened by the overwhelming criticisms of the people, Mao Tse-tung ordered a halt to the campaign. The campaign grew in momentum, from expressions of minor issues of a few to increasingly large numbers of intellectuals voicing their radical ideas, including the overthrowing of the government. The name originated from a poem: “Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.” This movement was the first of its kind in the history of the People’s Republic of China in which the government opened up to ideological criticisms from the general public. The installation used the sound of 100 individual voices as a sculptural material, re-imagining Dickens’ revolutionary mob sonically by creating surges of ideological thought that reverberate across the gallery space.Ī further source of inspiration was the Hundred Flowers Movement, which took place in China in 1957. Inspired by Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, A Hundred Seas Rising explored how literature might be implicated in the imagination and trajectories of revolutions.
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