The De-installation of Beijing’s Smelliest Art
Ouyang Chun’s Infinity Column installed in 798’s Star Gallery was beginning to make more of a stink than a statement. The smell of the rotting pig head, a fish, molding melon, and the accumulated piss and shit of the caged bird were more than I could handle at my visit last week. The concept was: items were collected from the public over the month of March, for the April exhibition they were “speared” on a rod that reached as infinitely high as engineering would let it. Have a look at the nature of donated items!
follow the column inside. . . more photos below