Do the Same Good Deed

"Do the Same Good Deed" is a performance conceived by Polit-Sheer-Form-Office, a collective created by Chinese artists Song Dong, Hong Hau, Liu Juanhua, Leng Lin, and Xiao Yu to picture a new socialism for the 21st century. A hundred people gathered to mop Times Square for an international artist video by the artist collective on November 3rd, 2014. The performance previously took place on a smaller scale at Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.

The goal of the particular project is to test in different social contexts - China and the U.S. - whether collectivism is a real social need or just a management tool. Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) is a China-based art collective founded in 2005 by artists Hong Hao (b. 1965, Beijing), Xiao Yu (b. 1965, Inner Mongolia), Song Dong (b. 1966, Beijing), Liu Jianhua (b. 1962, Ji'an), and Leng Lin (b. 1965, Beijing). PSFO carry on their discussions in various places they've spent their time together, such as factories, farms, schools, famous sites of China's civil war, places of interest, artist studios, art galleries, museums, sports sites, railway stations, docks, airports, hotels, restaurants, tea houses, bathhouses, recreation centers, department stores and kiosks.

Presented in partnership with Queens Museum