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SEPTEMBER/OCTO B E R 2 0 1 4 V O LUME 13, NUMBER 5 INSI DE Private Museums in China: Long Museum, Yuz Museum, Xi’an Art Museum Exhibitions: Altenatives to Ritual, Moderation(s) Artist Features: Paul Wong, Shezad Dawood US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRI NTED IN TA I WAN 6 VOLUME 13, NUMBER 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 CONTENTS 2 Editor’s Note 13 4 Contributors 6 The Construction of the Yuz Museum Shanghai: Budi Tek in Conversation with Wu Hung 13 Budi Tek, Yuz Fundation, in Conversation with Qiu Jiahe 20 The Inner Trappings of a Dragon: Long Museum, 43 Shanghai Julie Chun 29 A New Model Exemplifies the Art Museum Boom in China: Yang Chao in Conversation with Zheng Shengtian 43 A Reflective Turn in Exhibition-Making: On Alternatives to Ritual Julia Gwendolyn Schneider 58 53 Moderation(s): An Introduction Defne Ayas 58 Moderation(s): Speaking in Parentheses Christina Li 71 The Social Architecture of “Situations”: Heman Chong in Conversation with Lee Ambrozy 85 Pure Disruption: Sex, Death, and Postcolonial 85 Identity in Paul Wong’s Video Art Alex Quicho 93 Quantum Anthropology: Shezad Dawood in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey 106 Chinese Name Index 93 Cover: Xu Bing, Square Word Calligraphy, 1999, fabric banner, at Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai. Photo: Ruth Thompson. We thank JNBY Art Projects, Canadian Foundation of Asian Art, Chen Ping, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Li, and Stephanie Holmquist and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. Vol. 13 No. 5 1 Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art PRESIDENT Katy Hsiu-chih Chien LEGAL COUNSEL Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C. C. Liu Yishu 64 explores the phenomenon of private FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum museums in mainland China, propositions for EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace new ways of thinking about exhibition-making, MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian EDITORS Julie Grundvig and two artists who were not born in China Kate Steinmann but who have worked within and around its Chunyee Li contexts. CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Michelle Hsieh The museum system in China is distinct in that WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li most art museums are privately initiated and ADVISORY BOARD owned. The discussion between collector Budi Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Tek and Wu Hung took place in the Fall of 2012, Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum John Clark, University of Sydney eighteen months before Tek’s Yuz Museum Lynne Cooke, Museo Reina Sofia Shanghai opened, but it offers insights into Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator the curatorial process of imagining the future Fan Di’an, National Art Museum of China exhibition space, how artworks will relate to Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh each other, and what purpose the museum Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome serves. This is followed by a discussion Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Katie Hill, University of Westminster between Budi Tek and Qiu Jiahe that focuses Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive more on the philosophical underpinnings of the Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian Yuz Collection and the Yuz Foundation that has Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator Lu Jie, Long March Space in consequence emerged. Julie Chun reports Charles Merewether, Director, ICA Singapore on another private museum in Shanghai, the Ni Tsaichin, Tunghai University Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand Long Museum West Bund, that also opened in Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art 2014. She acknowledges the worthy intentions Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator Wu Hung, University of Chicago of collectors to make their collection public, but Pauline J. Yao, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District is cautionary about the potential shortcomings PUBLISHER Art & Collection Group Ltd. of such ambitious projects. In the conversation 6F. No. 85, Section 1, between Zheng Shengtian and Yang Chao, Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 Director of the Xi’an Art Museum, a candid Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 overview of private museums in China makes Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 E-mail: [email protected] transparent the undefined relationship between the developer, government, and the public. VICE GENERAL MANAGER Jenny Liu Alex Kao MARKETING MANAGER Joyce Lin Biljana Ciric’s Alternatives to Ritual and CIRCULATION EXECUTIVE Perry Hsu Betty Hsieh Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and Spring Workshop’s collaboration, PRINTING Chi Wei Colour Printing Ltd. Moderation(s), are two exhibition projects WEB SITE http://yishu-online.com that, in their exploration of inventive strategies WEB DESIGN Design Format ISSN 1683 - 3082 that animate a program or space, challenge traditional museum exhibition practices. The Yishu is published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and edited in Vancouver, Canada. The publishing dates are January, artists in Ciric’s exhibition literally occupy the March, May, July, September, and November. All subscription, German Consular office space in Shanghai, advertising, and submission inquiries may be sent to: and Heman Chong, the moderator for Yishu Editorial Office Moderation(s), introduces a multidisciplinary 200–1311 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada ethic that opens itself to the vulnerabilities of V6Z 2P3 unanticipated flexibility. Phone: 1.604.649.8187 Fax: 1.604.591.6392 E-mail: offi[email protected] The two concluding texts feature artists Paul SUBSCRIPTION RATES Wong and Shezad Dawood who represent 1 year (6 issues): $84 USD (includes airmail postage) different generations and come from different 2 years (12 issues): $158 USD (includes airmail postage) 1 Year PDF Download (6 issues): $49.95 USD (http://yishu-online.com) regions of the world, but they share an interest in postcolonial identity and its complex DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Leap Creative Group CREATIVE DIRECTOR Raymond Mah relationships with popular and traditional ART DIRECTOR Gavin Chow cultures through the means of new media. DESIGNER Philip Wong No part of this journal may be reprinted without the written permission from the publisher. The views expressed in Yishu are not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. Keith Wallace Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 2 4 6 (Chunyee Li) (Larisa Broyde) 13 (Philip Tinari) (Judy Andrews) (Britta Erickson) 20 Julie Chun (Melissa Chiu) (Sebastian Lopez) 29 (Claire Hsu) (John Clark) (Pauline J. Yao) (Martina Köppel-Yang) 43 Lynne Cooke Julia Gwendolyn Schneider Okwui Enwezor Katie Hill Charles Merewether 53 Moderation(s) Apinan Poshyananda Defne Ayas 58 Moderation(s) 856 : (886) 2.2560.2220 71 (886) 2.2542.0631 [email protected] Yishu Office 200-1311 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2P3, Canada 85 : (1) 604.649.8187 (1) 604.591.6392 Alex Quicho : offi[email protected] 93 Leap Creative Group, Vancouver 106 6 http://yishu-online.com Design Format Contributors Lee Ambrozy is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese Stephanie Bailey is the Managing Editor for Art History and Archaeology at the Institute Ibraaz. She has an M.A. in contemporary art of Fine Arts, New York University; she has theory from Goldsmiths College, University an M.A. in Art History from the Central of London, and a B.A. in classical civilization Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and is a with English literature from King’s College, graduate of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. London. She is currently on the editorial She was editor and translator of Ai Weiwei’s committee for Naked Punch, the editorial Blog (MIT Press, 2011) and from 2010 to 2012 team for South as a State of Mind, and a she was the editor of Artforum International’s correspondent for Ocula.com. Her writing Chinese language website Artforum.com.cn, has appeared in publications including ART where she is currently editor-at-large. She PAPERS, Aesthetica, ARTnews, Artforum, lives between New York and Beijing. Frieze, LEAP, Modern Painters, Notes on Metamodernism, and Yishu: Journal of Defne Ayas is Director of the Witte de Contemporary Chinese Art. With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. During her directorship, Witte Julie Chun is an independent art historian de With, together with Ullens Center for and lecturer who has resided in Shanghai Contemporary Art, co-commissioned Dai since 2011. She received her M.A. in Art Hanzhi: 5,000 Artists, a large platform History from San Jose State University, dedicated to the legacy of scholar, curator, California, and serves as the Convener of and dealer Hans van Dijk, which includes Art Focus for the Royal Asiatic Society two exhibitions, public programs, and a China, where she delivers monthly lectures publication. Other projects directed by Ayas on the topic of Asian art. Her writings have include Moderation(s), by artist and writer appeared in academic journals, and she is a Heman Chong, a two-year long programme contributing writer for Randian, a bilingual set up between Witte de With and Spring online journal dedicated to exploring Chinese Hong Kong; and the open archive and contemporary art within a global context. collection Tulkus 1880 to 2018 by Paola Pivi. She has been covering and following many of Ayas curated Blueprints by Chinese artist the new museums in Shanghai, including the and thinker Qiu Zhijie (2012), Line no. 2 China Art Museum and the Long Museum in (Holy Bible) by Turkish-Swedish artist Meric Pudong and West Bund. Algun Ringborg, and co-curated Surplus Authors with Phillippe Pirotte (2012). In Christina Li is an independent curator addition, Ayas launched Witte de With’s new and writer based in Hong Kong and the online platform WdW Review. Before moving Netherlands. She studied art history and to Rotterdam, Ayas co-founded Arthub Asia comparative literature at the University of in 2007, an Asia-wide active research and Hong Kong and participated in the de production initiative, where she remains a Appel Curatorial Program, Amsterdam, Director of Arthub Asia.
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