Öyvind Fahlström, Mao-Hope March, 1966
MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. © Öyvind Fahlström, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2023.
Öyvind Fahlström, Mao-Hope March, 1966
MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. © Öyvind Fahlström, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2023.
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Mao-Hope March, 1966
Öyvind Fahlström recorded the video Mao-Hope March on 1 September 1966 in the streets of New York as part of the multimedia performance ‘Kisses Sweeter Than Wine’, presented in the autumn of that year in New York’s 69th Regiment Armory. In 1973, he decided to present this short film as an independent work. The recording includes a demonstration organised by the artist in which a group of men and women carried six placards with photographs of the actor Bob Hope, representing the American dream, and one with a picture of the communist leader Mao Tse Tung, incarnation of the demonised communist ideology. While the demonstration was taking place, a popular radio announcer recorded people’s comments and their answers to the question: ‘Are you happy?’
Technical details
- Original title:
- Mao-Hope March
- Registration number:
- 2870
- Artist:
- Fahlström, Öyvind
- Date created:
- 1966
- Date acquired:
- 2007
- Status:
- On loan
- Fonds:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
- Object type:
- Audiovisual recording
- Media:
- 16 mm film b/w, sound, 4 min 50 s - Director, producer and sound editor: Öyvind Fahlström - Camera and montage: Alfons Schilling - Interview: Bob Fass
- Credits:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
- Copyright:
- © Öyvind Fahlström, VEGAP, Barcelona
- It has accessibility resources:
- No
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