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Artworks
Bo Choy
Sad Leaders, 2019PerformanceDuration 5:00© the artist“Sad Leaders is a masked performance where political figures Margaret Thatcher, Chairman Mao, Deng Xiaoping and Chris Patten perform mourning gestures to a soundtrack as they start to dance, interweaving...“Sad Leaders is a masked performance where political figures Margaret Thatcher, Chairman Mao, Deng Xiaoping and Chris Patten perform mourning gestures to a soundtrack as they start to dance, interweaving drum beats and sobbing alongside soundbites from Thatcher’s 1997 quote “the wheels of history turning” delivered just before Hong Kong's handover to China.”
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