Projects tagged
East Asia
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Ge Yu Lu (road)
Read more: Ge Yu Lu (road)In 2017 Ge Yulu became a national sensation in China. That year, he submitted his final project as a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, revealing the unnamed road in Beijing that he had claimed in…
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Female Writer 她–美女作家
Read more: Female Writer 她–美女作家Yu Hong’s Female Writer, a painted and photographic portrait of the writer Zhao Bo 趙波 (b. 1971), recalls courtly images of idealized beauties. Yu, however, deliberately complicates the perspective in her composition: she asked the sitters for her She series…
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Whose Utopia? 谁的乌托邦
Read more: Whose Utopia? 谁的乌托邦Whose Utopia? was made by the Chinese artist Cao Fei and filmed at the OSRAM lighting factory in Foshan in the Pearl River Delta in southern China during 2005 and 2006. It was commissioned as part of a project entitled…
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Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)
Read more: Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)Ladies’ Room, lasting fewer than six and a half minutes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at a women’s washroom in a nightclub located in a Beijing hotel. A male patron of Cui Xiuwen’s studio first took her there, and she acknowledges…
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Embarking on a journey through a sea of theater
Read more: Embarking on a journey through a sea of theaterChina’s only seaside theater festival has been held in the resort town of Aranya in north China’s Hebei Province. Artists from around the world traveled there to take deep dive into the world of dramatic performance. For theatergoers, there were…
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Heritage loss and the Importance of the Past
Read more: Heritage loss and the Importance of the PastDropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995) by Ai Weiwei is a highly provocative work of art. This series of three black and white photographs portray the artist holding a 2,000-year-old Han dynasty urn that, frame by frame, he drops, it…
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Old People’s Home
Read more: Old People’s HomeThese thirteen life-like sculptures resemble familiar politicians, admirals, generals, bishops, and dictators. Portrayed as frail seniors, they sit dozing off and drooling in electric wheelchairs. They roll on a slow collision course, crashing into each other like bumper cars. The…
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LGBTQ Marriage Matching in China
Read more: LGBTQ Marriage Matching in ChinaSixth Tone – “A group of women trying to raise awareness of LGBT rights by advertising their single, gay sons and daughters at Shanghai’s “marriage market” were forced to disperse after a heated confrontation with other parents and security personnel.The…
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Interwoven Threads: The Art of Community and Sensory Expansion
Read more: Interwoven Threads: The Art of Community and Sensory ExpansionSebastián Mahaluf stands out as an artist deeply engaged in weaving the complex threads of human connection, community, and the interplay of personal and collective experiences. His notable work, “CONTRADICTION AND TENSION,” showcases his approach to art as a participatory…
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Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual Arts
Read more: Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual ArtsJapan has begun discharging nuclear wastewater into the ocean four times a year, each time lasting 17 consecutive days. Under their 30-year plan, it is estimated that approximately 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will…