Projects tagged
East Asia
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‘Alchemy’ Series Spearheads Conversations on Sustainable Art
Read more: ‘Alchemy’ Series Spearheads Conversations on Sustainable ArtFor one artist, the ugly and the beautiful are equivalent concepts. In 2018, designer and artist Choi Jeong Hwa featured an exhibition titled ‘Alchemy’ at The Artling where he uses recycled and non-biodegradable materials in his work that he has…
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JEREMY SCOTT’S FIRST POST-MOSCHINO MOVE: CAR COUTURE
Read more: JEREMY SCOTT’S FIRST POST-MOSCHINO MOVE: CAR COUTUREJeremy Scott and Moschino may no longer be a thing but the designer is still plenty busy. Case in point, Scott’s new partnership with Korean car manufacturer Hyundai, the latest in the latter’s ongoing Re:Style upcycling program. For Hyundai Re:Style…
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Ip Gim: Feminist Art and Activism
Read more: Ip Gim: Feminist Art and Activism“Founded in 1997 and active until 2018, Ip Gim was the first collective to use the word ‘feminist’ to describe itself in South Korea. Ip Gim is an unmatched artist collective that has pioneered feminist activist art practice in the…
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Sun Mu: From Propaganda to Protest
Read more: Sun Mu: From Propaganda to Protest“Sun Mu is not the artist’s actual name. It’s a nom de plume that uses a combination of two Korean words that translate to ‘The Absence of Borders’. It not only represents what he feels is the transcendence of art…
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“Escape the Corset”
Read more: “Escape the Corset”In this black-and-white image, there are no strands of hair or remnants of makeup to be found, except a shaved head belonging to a South Korean. Jeon photographed this image in 2019 for her exhibition that aimed to “destroy the…
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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Read more: Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has…
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Dance with ghost, Student using dance to protest the corrupt Chinese tradition
Read more: Dance with ghost, Student using dance to protest the corrupt Chinese traditionA viral video of a student dance performance in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has won praise for speaking out against so-called ghost marriages, which many today see as an archaic and even dangerous tradition. In a recent competition,…
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China’s Creative Acts of Protest: Memes, Puns and Blank Sheets of Paper
Read more: China’s Creative Acts of Protest: Memes, Puns and Blank Sheets of PaperIn Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math equation devised by the Russian physicist…
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Carry the against sexual harassment billboard everyday
Read more: Carry the against sexual harassment billboard everydayIn March 2016, Chinese feminist activists had planned to launch a crowdfunding campaign against sexual harassment advertisements, and they worked hard to raise 40,000 yuan in a month and a half. However, after perfunctory, evasive, and rejection by the relevant…
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Female Voice Head’s funeral party
Read more: Female Voice Head’s funeral partyOn March 9, 2018, China’s largest feminist platform “Voice of Women’s Rights”‘s Weibo account and WeChat official account were permanently suspended. Before being blocked, its Weibo account had 180,000 fans and the Wechat account had 70,000 fans. In order to…