Projects tagged
East Asia
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WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Read more: WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTHThe author behind ‘The First Paradise of Fang Siqi,’ a novel that Han described as ‘a young girl falling in love with her rapist,’ has sent shockwaves through Taiwanese society. On April 27, aspiring Taiwanese author Lin Yi Han committed…
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For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera
Read more: For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance CameraSeveral nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy. Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid…
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‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in China
Read more: ‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in ChinaHONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai.…
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Future Vote
Read more: Future VoteThis project is a participatory art action initiated by the Action Office in 2024. Action Office called up Chinese citizens in mainland China to transfer their voting rights for what they believe will be their first participation in the election…
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“Anime Gaze”
Read more: “Anime Gaze”A unique piece captured significant attention at the Central Academy of Fine Arts undergraduate graduation exhibition in June. The work featured an “anime-style” girl’s skull linked to a human skeleton and internal organs, all encased within a thin film. As…
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Rare protests against China’s ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across country
Read more: Rare protests against China’s ‘zero covid’ policy erupt across countryProtests erupted in cities and on campuses across China this weekend as frustrated and outraged citizens took to the streets in a stunning wave of demonstrations against the government’s “zero covid” policy and the leaders enforcing it. Residents in Shanghai,…
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Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic Generator
Read more: Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic GeneratorCosmic Generator presents a network of characters working in nonsensical, and at times absurd, economies. Artist Mika Rottenberg uses footage from actual discount dollar stores in Calexico, CA; Mexicali, Mexico; and Yiwu, China to recreate the imaginary “life” of a…
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A Later Banned Set of Photos Sent Shockwaves Through Chinese Netizens
Read more: A Later Banned Set of Photos Sent Shockwaves Through Chinese NetizensA Chinese Independent Photographer, Xiyouxiu (Twitter ID@xiuxiukong) published a set of photos called “Father” on both Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Little Red Book, and international platforms like twitter. At the beginning of the story being told by the…
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Ge Yulu: Eye Contact
Read more: Ge Yulu: Eye ContactGe Yulu’s artistic practice playfully pulls at the strings of a social system that, although seemingly all-encompassing, is in fact a malleable structure consisting of individual human beings. For his 2016 project Eye Contact, Ge positioned himself in front of…
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Zhang Donghui, a young artist, was detained for more than three months and had to pay 3,995 yuan in compensation for writing the words “Three years, I have become numb.”
Read more: Zhang Donghui, a young artist, was detained for more than three months and had to pay 3,995 yuan in compensation for writing the words “Three years, I have become numb.”Zhang Donghui, born in 1992, is a native of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. He has been living and working as a professional artist in Beijing…