降落的最后一步
 The Last Step of Touch Down

降落的最后一步

The Last Step of Touch Down

Three-channel video installation, 1 hour 9 minutes 47 seconds, B/W, color, Stereo sound, 2020

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The Last Step of Touch Down explores China's history of adopting foreign technologies during Mao's regime. The

"last step" refers to the moment when foreign delegations disembark from the plane and make contact with foreign soil. This symbolic moment has always been documented and is seen as a key point in the narrative structure and a visualized metaphor.

By focusing on two particular historical periods - the first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957, guided by the Soviet Union, and the technology transfer from the West to China that began after Nixon's visit in 1972 -, the work emphasizes how civil aviation and media- technology, which played essential roles in the subsequent globalization process, was introduced into China through diplomatic events. By weaving together facts from multiple sources, historical representations, and individual testimonies, the work argues how the ideology in technology spread and affected every stratum of China's society in a top-down manner, resulting in the creation of new elites who employed these novel technologies, implying that China's transformation after Mao was not political but rather technological.

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