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1956
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Wu Wenguang was born on Octobre 23, in the southwest of Yunnan Province, in China.
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1974
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After high school, he was sent to the countryside, during the Cultural Revolution.
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1978
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He studied literature at Yunnan University and started teaching.
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1985
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He works as a news journalist for Kunming Television. |
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1988
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He resigned, moved to Beijing and made his first video : Chinese People.
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1989
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He made himself famous by producing the first independent Chinese documentary film :
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Bumming in Beijing : the Last Dreamers
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He decided to focus on five artists friends, who were illegal residents living in North-West
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of Beijing, near the Old Summer Palace, to capture the stark reality of the town,
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after the events of Tian'anmen.
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1991
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He founded his own studio : The Wu Documentary Studio
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1993
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His documentary When I Was a Red Guard won The Ogawa Shinsuke price at the Yamagata
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Festival .
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1994
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With his wife,dancer and choreographer Wen Hui, with whom he collabores as an actor,
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playwright, and video artist, he co-founded The Living Dance Studio.
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They produce live Art events together, combining theater, modern dance, and
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performance, accompanied bu new media arrangements, using ( sound, video and
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computer projections ).
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1999
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Report on Giving Birth - in collaboration with Wang Jianwei combines interviews,
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choreographed dance movements, and a range of projected images.
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2001
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Dancing with Farm Workers - with : Song Dong Yin Xiuzhen Wu Wenguang Wen Hui and 30
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workers on the sites of construction in Beijing, migrants from Sichuan.
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2001
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23.08 Dancing with Farm Workers Centre d'Art Yuanyang.
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He edited two collections of critical texts : Document ( 2000 and 2001 ) and founded
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the independent monthly Art Magazine : New Wave ( 2001 )
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2004
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24.04 24.05 participation to ( D.I.A.F.2004 ), First International Festival of Art, Dashanzi
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Beijing.
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2005
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Near District 798, in the suburbs of Beijing, they established a centre for their artistic
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actiivities ( a performance space, video space, living dance studio ) for independent
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artists: The Caochangdi Work Station.
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2006
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He participated in collectif : Villager documentary project teaching villagers how to use |
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a digital camera and to make a film. |
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2010
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He launched the collaborative Folk Memory Project of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961),
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featuring interviews with thousands of famine survivors, to collect their memories.
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Danièle Sicard
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Bumming in Beijing ( dir. Wu Wenguang )
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