Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters

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Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters is a large-scale conceptual and pyrotechnic artwork by Cai Guo-Qiang that symbolically continues the Great Wall using a 10-kilometer line of gunpowder explosions across the Gobi Desert.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
conceptual artwork
pyrotechnic artwork
artForm outdoor explosion event
artisticMethod line of gunpowder explosions
associatedWith Chinese contemporary art
explosion events in art
countryOfOrigin China
creator Cai Guo-Qiang NERFINISHED
documentationForm drawings
photography
video
genre conceptual art
land art
performance art
hasType site-specific work
time-based work
involves large-scale outdoor installation
pyrotechnic engineering
languageOfTitle English
length 10 kilometers
10000 meters
location Gobi Desert NERFINISHED
medium explosions
gunpowder
notableFor symbolic continuation of a major historical monument
use of large-scale gunpowder explosions in the landscape
partOf Cai Guo-Qiang gunpowder projects NERFINISHED
setting Gobi Desert NERFINISHED
desert
subject Great Wall of China NERFINISHED
symbolicallyExtends Great Wall of China NERFINISHED
theme boundaries and borders
cultural memory
ephemerality
history of the Great Wall
relationship between destruction and creation

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Cai Guo-Qiang notableWork Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters