{"id":67,"title":"Gobi Test. Summer (The Gobi Test, or the Unbearable Charm of Mongolia)","dimensions":"00:31:00 min","date_begin":"2004-01-01","material":"dvd","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"video","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eThe work was included in the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"BK7708_M458","stream_count_app":39,"permalink":"gobi-test-summer-the-gobi-test-or-the-unbearable-charm-of-mongolia","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Oleg Kulik","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/000/266/large/Kulik,%200001%20Oleg%20,%20Gobi%20Test,%20Summer%20,%202004%20film%20still.jpg?1298968190","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Gobi Test consist of two complementary video\u0026rsquo;s signalling a quest for deeper meaning and more open space. Both *Gobi Test. Summer (The Gobi Test, or the Unbearable Charm of Mongolia)* from 2004, and \u003cem\u003eGobi Test. Winter (The Gobi Test, or the Unbearable Charm of Mongolia)\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;from 2005, exude the semidocumentary aura of a reality TV show reporting on daily life as it may still be lived on the vast steppes of the Russian Far East. They are empathetic amateur documents in which the artist further develops his programmatic interest in humankind and the animal kingdom in varying states of \u0026ldquo;wilderness\u0026rdquo;. Both works can be shown either separately or as films projected onto either side of one centrally located projection screen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eZowel *Gobi Test. Winter (The Gobi Test, or the Unbearable Charm of Mongolia)* uit 2005, als *Gobi Test. Summer (The Gobi Test, or the Unbearable Charm of Mongolia)* uit 2004, hebben het semi-documentaire aura van een reality TV-reeks over het leven in de onherbergzame Mongoolse steppe, een liefdevol amateurdocument waarin de kunstenaar zijn belangstelling voor mensen en dieren in vari\u0026euml;rende staten van \u0026lsquo;verwildering\u0026rsquo; verder ontwikkelt. Deze werken kunnen afzonderlijk worden vertoond, of rug aan rug op \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n centraal opgesteld projectiescherm.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":68,"name":"Oleg Kulik","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}