Huang Yongping, a conceptual artist, created Washing Machine as a protest against the institution of art.  He placed two highly regarded art textbooks, one on Chinese art and one about Western art, in a washing machine for two minutes.  The result, a pile of illegible paper pulp, was a physical mix of traditional Chinese and modern Western cultures.  The exhibit reflected the feeling among conceptualists that words had become unreliable after the Cultural Revolution.  By combining the two cultures in such a fashion that renders both indecipherable, Huang argues that it is not possible to correctly understand art.