Now, more than three decades after the Cultural Revolution began, Mr. Li is for the first time making public his remarkable visual testimony of that violent and chaotic era.
But Deller is now in his mid-40s and as time passes his approach looks less nonconformist – this show has paintings, films, installations and photographs, albeit some of them the visual testimony of past happenings – especially as the material passes into social or political history.
With a series of large colored-pencil drawings and enamel-on-aluminum paintings, the exhibition offers visual testimony of what usually goes unnoticed: the fuel spills, sprayed gravel, gouges and skids that remain indelible after high-speed courtships with death.
Mr. Weiner's rollout video, all those weeks ago in May, was slick and high-gloss, shot through with energetic scenes of the city and buttressed with the visual testimony of his mother, a schoolteacher, and his wife, Huma Abedin, who sat by his side.
A project produced by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the USC Shoah Foundation the world's largest visual testimony of Holocaust and genocide survivors combines language processing software, voice recognition technology and visualization, allowing people to interact with a Holocaust survivor in real time.
Of the many productions of Austen adaptations that appeared in the 1990s, Carole M. Dole notes Persuasion was the only one to "insistently draw attention to class issues," and "provide striking visual testimony to the workings of the British class system".
The videos produced by the teenagers in Serbia will be shown to the youth delegates and government officials in Vienna to spark discussions and give an audio-visual testimony of what young Europeans have to say regarding health and environment issues surrounding them.
A visual testimony that the legacy of colonialism is far from dead.
It is achieved in Burns's signature style through prolonged immersion in the archival past (and the avoidance of any filmed re-creations of events for which no visual testimony exists), by the sustained quality of analytic narrative, by a stellar cast of voices (Eleanor's letters are read, piercingly, by Meryl Streep), and by the impeccable authority of those consulted or interviewed on screen.
