Projects tagged
East Asia
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Washing River 洗河
Read more: Washing River 洗河Since the 1980s, revitalizing the economy has always been the country’s development strategy. Although China’s economy has grown rapidly in just twenty years, attracting worldwide attention, environmental destruction has also become a problem. For example, the Fu Nan River in…
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Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms
Read more: Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms“I am a silkworm.” Liang Shaoji has repeatedly used this phrase to describe his work, underscoring his preoccupation with the materiality of silk and the technology of sericulture, or silk farming. For more than twenty-five years, Liang Shaoji has raised…
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Instantaneous ownership
Read more: Instantaneous ownership“Why should I play a celebrity and live in Beijing for 21 days without spending money?” From May 1st to May 21st, 2021, I spent 21 days in Beijing without spending money, and I was as elegant as a celebrity.…
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Shouting 喊
Read more: Shouting 喊Shouting is one of Xu Zhen’s early works questioning the limits of individual expression. First exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, the video shows Xu hiding in crowds and performing a series of loud screams in Shanghai. The…
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Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong Kong
Read more: Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong KongLuke Ching Chin Wai is a conceptual artist and labour-artivist in Hong Kong. Since 2013, he has worked undercover in different low-paid jobs in the city, including as a security guard, supermarket cashier worker, and metro cleaner to learn about…
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“Dying to Survive”: A Movie on Generic Drugs
Read more: “Dying to Survive”: A Movie on Generic DrugsThe screen portrayal of a cancer sufferer whose illegal import of foreign medicines into China spurred national policy changes has become a box-office smash as audiences flock to a rare Chinese film on a hot-button issue. Dying To Survive is…
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I’ve Got Nothing To Say
Read more: I’ve Got Nothing To SayFeb 23 2024, on the streets in Henan, China, a girl holds a big sign with the black text “I’ve got nothing to say” on a white background, walking around in city center and malls. She live-streamed her walk and…
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How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much Sympathy
Read more: How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much SympathySong Dong’s Waste Not consisted of a single installation comprising over 10,000 commonplace, domestic items of daily life that had been used and amassed by the artist’s mother (Zhao Xiangyuan) over fifty years. The shabby and sometimes thread bare items…
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‘My Life Is Not Your Porn’: Women Lead Historic Spy Cams Protest in South Korea
Read more: ‘My Life Is Not Your Porn’: Women Lead Historic Spy Cams Protest in South Korean Saturday, thousands of women in red, black, and white gathered together in Seoul for what many consider the largest women-led protest ever in South Korean history. Shielding their faces with masks to protect themselves from harassment or online trolling,…
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Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond
Read more: Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a FishpondZhuang Huan invited more than 40 men – laborers, fishermen, construction workers––who had recently migrated to Beijing from other areas of China to participate. Zhang Huan said, “In order to find these workers, I visited many of the shacks where…