《冷战美学》包括一部录像装置,雕塑,70年代的宣传海报,灵感来自同一些海报的画作,以及中国政府撰写的用于教育群众发生核攻击时如何防范的插图手册。录像放映展现了老套的核爆炸电影片段,而171件玻璃钢雕塑则描绘了躺在地上抵御爆炸的人物,在防空洞里蜷成一团(在纵段剖面中可以看到),穿戴防化服和防毒面具,或者是手术口罩,用 Cold War Aesthetics includes a video installation, sculpture, posters of the 1970s, paintings inspired by the same posters, and illustrated manuals prepared by the Chinese government to educate the public on how to prevent a nuclear attack. The video shows a stereotyped movie of nuclear explosions, while the 171 glass-and-steel sculptures depict a figure lying on the ground against explosions, curled up in a bomb shelter (as seen in a longitudinal section), dressed in protective clothing and Gas masks, or surgical masks, with