 * AND NOW WE PRESENT * Feng Mengbo's "Taking Mountain DOOM By Strategy" A modern story of what happens when the heroes of the Beijing Opera meet the masters of the video game Doom. |
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* FIRST a live event, a historic battle in the Chinese revolution
of the late 1940's, Mao's revolutionary forces defeat the
Nationalist armies at Tiger Mountain. * IN THE 1950's, reality segues to the novel, "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy" * THEN the tale takes the form of a Beijing opera, and in the late 1960's, "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy" blossoms as a major motion picture. |
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* NO ONE KNOWS which side will triumph, the young Doom sharp-shooters or the leaping, twirling footwork of Yang Zirong, the hero of the old guard. After all, Feng's opus is still a work-in-progress. Yang's fancy dancy moves would soon exhaust and trash Schwarzenegger's plodding Terminator, but is anyone fast enough to escape the cross-hairs of DOOM: "Taking Mountain DOOM By Strategy". |
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Feng Mengbo
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| is a media artist. In addition to producing interactive CD-Roms, he outputs his digital images as iris prints, on scrolls, and silk screened on aluminum panels. This year he participated in two major international survey exhibitions, Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and the Kwangju Biennal in Korea. In Kwangju, London met Feng, and he invited her to his studio in Beijing to look at new work. | "Well Feng," says London, "I'm here now, let's see what you're doing." | |
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Feng Mengbo holding a scroll from series "One, Two, Three, Go" |
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"I'm a Tiger" series. Digital images silk-screened on aluminum panels. |
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