Cai Guo-Qiang in "Power" - Season 3 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Cai Guo-Qiang, from the "Power" episode in Season 3 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.
"Power" premiered in September 2005 on PBS.
Cai Guo-Qiang, who harnesses the explosive power of gunpowder to create epic works that are born in violent on-site acts of performance. For his show “Inopportune” at MASS MoCA, Cai explores catastrophe, pain and the meaning of terrorism in the world since September 11th with an installation of tumbling cars that follow a path through the air.
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China, and lives and works in New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Assistant Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Alice Bertoni. Production Coordinator: Kelly Shindler. Producer: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Steven Wechsler. Host: David Alan Grier. Director of Photography: Takahisa Araki, Richard Chisolm, Mark Falstad, Gary Henoch, Samuel Henriques, Mead Hunt, Tom Hurwitz, Joel Shapiro, David Smith, Ken Willinger, & Sérgio Zeigler. Sound: Tom Bergin, Steve Bores, Dwayne Dell, Bob Freeman, Roger Phenix, Merce Williams, & Sérgio Zeigler. Assistant Camera: Chris DeGuy, Craig Feldman, Brian Hwang, Steve Nealey, & Matt Thurber. Production Assistant: Matt Cavanaugh & Justin Leitstein. Assistant Avid Editor: Robert Achs, Jamie Courville, Sean Frechette, Mike Heffron, David Kreger, Cara Leroy O’Connell, Joaquin Perez, Aaron Sheddrick, & Lynn True. Voice-Over Artist (Cai Guo-Qiang segment): Clem Cheung. Translator (Cai Guo-Qiang segment): Ai Guo, Louisa Lam, & Mingxia Li. Still Photography: Alice Bertoni.
Major underwriting for Season 3 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Bagley Wright Fund Bloomberg, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Full credits available at art21.org/watc...
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[@SunshineCoastRealEstate]

Cai is the most exciting living artist. Ethereal, monumental, and fantastic!

[@treemerryweather]

I love his work. I find it disturbing that his staff don't wear respirators when they go in immediately after detonation is complete to cool down and quickly remove the rocks. It would appear to be something they will have cause to regret at some point down the road

[@art_means_artificial]

abstract is boring. chinese people don't care about safety and health tbh

[@robertcoyle1532]

I'm not sure that the gunpowder does much for the final work. Seems kind of gimmicky.

[@remingtonreese9299]

The metaphor of it being like sex is disturbing. Like it got detailed :(

[@aztro.99]

yeah but he's kinda right though lol