3-channel video, Cable and Wireless Great Circle Map by MacDonald 'Max' Gill, 1945 Dimensions variable

Cable and Wireless Great Circle Map by MacDonald Gill, 1945 (print), 50× 58 cm, Courtesy the artist

This work belongs to the project From the Fine to the Contemporary,the Birth of the Secularization and the Modern. In this work, artist delivers an invented conversation between a contemporary Chinese scholar, a late 20th century German jurist, political thinker and a British fictional character lives 17th century. The transcription is selected from the book, speech and the analysis of the novel made by the speakers. Those three people from different periods, different nationalities linked with the ocean and opened up a discussion about the issues on early modern geography, early colonial activities, capital circulation in the era of globalization, the modern way of life, and how the space revolution changed the form and recognition of culture and art. And it imagining a new vision of geopolitics and culture in nowadays and the future with the conversation deepens.