A huge scandal sparked on the Internet Song Ta It is the latest work by a Chinese artist in which she ranks college students based on their appearance. The uglier and uglier (ugly and even uglier), an eight-hour secretly recorded video featuring photos of Song Ta University students, ranked from most attractive to least attractive, was shown in Shanghai Art Space called OCAT, but soon shut down, i wanted to.
Song Ta, from the Chinese Donald Trumpkent Also commonly referred to, he made the video in 2012, which was then shown at the Ollins Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, but they don’t seem really bothered about it there. The uglier and uglierIn the accompanying description, the term campus flowers is used for female college students. The hashtag “Song Ta Campus Flowers” has reportedly been searched hundreds of millions of times on Chinese social media over the past week.
OCAT Shanghai publicly apologized last Friday on a community site called Weibo, adding that it was withdrawing the work. The place is closed indefinitely, according to the statement, the owners are “rethinking” their mistakes.
Song Ta’s work has so far been widely recognized in the international art world, and is considered the first conceptual artist to progress to a costume designer.
A disturbing dose of contemporary Chinese art: Song Ta, a video artist, has a piece called “Uglier and Uglier” on display at OCAT Shanghai. This more than 7 hour long video shows secretly filmed footage of college girls rated from ‘most beautiful’ to ‘ugliest’. pic.twitter.com/COtSWEF7Xa
– Afra Wang (@afrazhaowang) June 17, 2021
