Projects tagged
East Asia
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Living and Killing in Modern China: “A Touch of Sin”
Read more: Living and Killing in Modern China: “A Touch of Sin”“May you live in interesting times” is the familiar Chinese saying, usually spat out as a curse. You can see why in “A Touch of Sin,” a film by renowned director Jia Zhang-ke. That kind of time is now, in…
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Thai youth takes creative defiance into election
Read more: Thai youth takes creative defiance into electionAs the No. 59 bus hurtled down Ratchadamnoen Klang road in Bangkok’s Old Town, its passengers diverted their attention from the intense midday heat to a small crowd on the concrete below. About 25 people were marching and chanting, photographers…
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When the Sky Blooms With Sakura—the first daytime fireworks in the sky above Yotuskura Beach in Iwaki City
Read more: When the Sky Blooms With Sakura—the first daytime fireworks in the sky above Yotuskura Beach in Iwaki CityOn June 26, contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang released the daytime firework display ‘When the Sky Blooms with Sakura’ at Yotsukura Beach in Iwaki City, as commissioned by Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello. An area that has been devasted by…
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Chinese See Themselves in a Chained Woman
Read more: Chinese See Themselves in a Chained WomanThe Xuzhou chained woman incident, also known as the Xuzhou eight-child mother incident, is a case of human trafficking, false imprisonment, sexual assault, severe mistreatment, and subsequent events that came to light in late January 2022 in Xuzhou’s Feng County,…
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performance art protest against campus lockdown due to covid
Read more: performance art protest against campus lockdown due to covidA performance art piece by a student who sat in a cage to protest a draconian lockdown of the Beijing Film Academy (BFA) recently went viral, and was censored just as quickly. Like many other Chinese citizens, university students have…
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Chinese AIDS activist Gao Yaojie
Read more: Chinese AIDS activist Gao YaojieGao Yaojie (Chinese: 高耀潔, Gao Yaojie; 19 December 1927 – 10 December 2023) was a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist based in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Gao was honoured for her work by the United Nations and Western organizations whilst…
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“Gold Rice” Thrown into the Huangpu River
Read more: “Gold Rice” Thrown into the Huangpu RiverBy throwing away 1,000 pure gold rice grains into a river, a Chinese artist, who wanted to raise public awareness about food waste, found his behavior was not well received by the general public who called the performance “fake art…
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Zou Yaqi, a Chinese woman who spent 21 days living in Beijing for free by taking advantage of inherent classism issues in China
Read more: Zou Yaqi, a Chinese woman who spent 21 days living in Beijing for free by taking advantage of inherent classism issues in ChinaBEIJING — Like many art students, Zou Yaqi often worried she’d be unable to afford to live in Beijing after graduation. So, earlier this year, she decided to set herself a daunting challenge: Survive in the city for three weeks…
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Ai Weiwei, Stools, 2014. Courtesy of Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Read more: Ai Weiwei, Stools, 2014. Courtesy of Martin-Gropius-Bau, BerlinChinese artist Ai WeiWei has drawn on the stool part of that French surrealist’s pioneer work for his latest exhibition, the largest ever devoted to Ai, which opens in Berlin this Thursday. The show, entitled Evidence, is at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau…
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Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only Education
Read more: Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only EducationThousands of ethnic Mongolians have protested across northern China in opposition to Beijing plans to replace the Mongolian language with Chinese in some school subjects. Tuesday marked the first day of a policy revealed in June, to gradually transition the…