{"product_id":"16718-song-dong","title":"Song Dong","description":"The Chinese conceptual artist Song Dong has an untranslatable sentence about doing nothing translated into English by different people, companies, a translation agency, and Google Translate. Although the Chinese characters are identical on all documents, each translation is different. The sentence and its interpretations revolve around doing, doing nothing, and waste, each containing its own perspective on the value of human activities. The meaning of the sentence changes with each stationery, color scheme, and signature, and Song Dong's own handwritten deciphering oscillates between phases of doing nothing and ordinary daily actions: eating, drinking, relieving oneself, sleeping, studying, forgetting, practicing, and understanding. At the end of the list, there is another reference to \"Doing Nothing.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSong Dong (b. 1966) lives and works in Beijing.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Book (978-3-7757-2933-8)","offer_id":44503952621832,"sku":"9783775729338","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook - PDF (978-3-7757-5017-2)","offer_id":44573665493256,"sku":"9783775750172","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook - EPUB (978-3-7757-3113-3)","offer_id":44573665526024,"sku":"9783775731133","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775729338_1955f19a-c789-448a-848b-910840fa2985.jpg?v=1744136328","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16718-song-dong","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}