Projects tagged
East Asia
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Free the Beijing Five
Read more: Free the Beijing FiveNancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: Five Chinese feminists have been arrested for planning to protest against sexual harassment. They face five to ten years in jail. This post explains the background to the case, and suggests ways that other…
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In China, a Young Feminist Battles Sexual Violence Step by Step
Read more: In China, a Young Feminist Battles Sexual Violence Step by StepA hundred days. That’s how long it took Xiao Meili to walk from Beijing, in the arid north, to the humid, central city of Changsha. Since September, the 24-year-old has been trekking south and west across the Chinese heartland, along…
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The Many Faces of Yue Minjun
Read more: The Many Faces of Yue MinjunBy NAZANIN LANKARANI PARIS — Five years after his rise to the top of the Chinese contemporary art market, Yue Minjun has something new to smile about. Best known for his large-scale paintings depicting his own smiling face, Mr. Yue,…
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Bloodline: Big Family
Read more: Bloodline: Big FamilyThe immediate prototypes of Zhang Xiaogang’s Big Family series are formal group photographic portraits from the 1950’s and 60’s, including those of Zhang’s own family, a source of the painter’s “endless reveries.” From these old black-and-white pictures Zhang Xiaogang derived…
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Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North Korea
Read more: Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North KoreaA group of South Korean activists is determined to send copies of The Interview across the North Korean border, despite threats from the state to respond with “cannons or missiles” if the plan succeeds. Around March 26, the dissidents will…
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Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist
Read more: Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artistBy a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is…
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WeiweiCam
Read more: WeiweiCamWeiweiCam is a self-surveillance project by artist Ai Weiwei that went live on April 3, 2012, exactly one year after the artist’s detention by Chinese officials at Beijing Airport.[1] At least fifteen surveillance cameras monitor his house in Beijing[2] which,…
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Read more: Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of ChinaThe Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September…
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Dystopian Noah’s ark reflects China’s environmental woes
Read more: Dystopian Noah’s ark reflects China’s environmental woesA dilapidated wooden fishing boat laden down with animals who are just skin and bone, a sort of dystopian Noah’s ark trying to escape the end of the earth and an empty city devoid of human life that has been…
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I Have Never Eaten These Tiny Grapes by Zuoxiao Zuzhou: ‘China’s Leonard Cohen’ Calls Out Political Corruption
Read more: I Have Never Eaten These Tiny Grapes by Zuoxiao Zuzhou: ‘China’s Leonard Cohen’ Calls Out Political CorruptionZuoxiao Zuzhou is a Chinese singer whose accented, croaky voice is hardly ever in tune. But for his fans he’s the voice of a generation — one of the very few voices who dare to speak out. After a collaboration,…