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SEPTEMBER/OCTO B E R 2 0 1 5 V O LUME 14, NUMBER 5 INSI DE The Chinese Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2015 Chinese Feminism in Contemporary Art Artist Features: Chen Wei, Cheng Ran, Mao Yan, Qiu Xiaofei, Liang Quan Interview with Paz Venturelli Baraona Unscrolled in Vancouver US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRINTED IN TAIWAN 6 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 C ONT ENTS 21 2 Editor’s Note 4 Contributors 6 On Civil Society and Colliding with Reality: The Chinese Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker 21 Context, Challenge, Conversion: 41 Chinese Feminism via Contemporary Art Taliesin Thomas 41 Mise-en-scène: Cinematheque Chen Wei and Cheng Ran Julie Chun 57 Interview with Paz Venturelli Baraona Zheng Shengtian 72 Mao Yan at Pace Gallery, New York 72 Jonathan Goodman 80 Qiu Xiaofei’s Struggle Danielle Shang 88 Amassing the Essence: A Preliminary Look at Liang Quan’s Thirty Years of Painting Chia Chi Jason Wang 104 Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Art 80 Tianmo Zhang 111 Chinese Name Index Cover: Liang Quan, Untitled (detail), 2006, ink, tea, colour, 104 rice paper, 120 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. We thank JNBY Art Projects, D3E Art Limited, Chen Ping, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Li, and Stephanie Holmquist and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. 1 Vol. 14 No. 5 Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art PRESIDENT Katy Hsiu-chih Chien LEGAL COUNSEL Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C. C. Liu FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum Chinese film and video are not frequently featured in EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace the context of visual art exhibitions. Yishu 70 presents MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian EDITORS Julie Grundvig two texts that examine the presentation of these Kate Steinmann mediums within the exhibition format. Jo-Anne Birnie Chunyee Li EDITORS (CHINESE VERSION) Yu Hsiao Hwei Danzker discusses the Chinese Pavilion, designed by Chen Ping Rem Koolhaas, at the 2015 Venice Biennale, which Guo Yanlong CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde for the most part included seasoned filmmakers, WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li musicians, and dancers whose work focuses on ADVISORY BOARD the public realm and the engagement of all sectors Judy Andrews, Ohio State University of society in the formation of culture. Julie Chun Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden John Clark, University of Sydney presents an in-depth examination of Cinematheque, Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. an exhibition of the work of Chen Wei and Cheng Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator Ran, two artists whose interests resonate with the Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts disquietudes of a younger generation. Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome Taliesin Thomas offers an insightful consideration Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Katie Hill, University of Westminster of Chinese women artists whose work reflects Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive a feminist position and that exemplifies aspects Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator of Western feminist discourse while unveiling Lu Jie, Long March Space specificities that are characteristic of a Chinese Charles Merewether, Director, ICA Singapore Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand social and political psyche. Zheng Shengtian, in his Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art interview with Paz Venturelli Baraona, elaborates Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator Wu Hung, University of Chicago upon his research into the extensive engagement Pauline J. Yao, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District of Latin American artists, in this case Chilean PUBLISHER Art & Collection Group Ltd. artist José Venturelli, with Chinese culture and its 6F. No. 85, Section 1, government officials during the 1950s to the 1980s, Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 contesting assumptions that Socialist Realism was Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 all that was evident at the time. Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 E-mail: [email protected] The final four texts offer differing perspectives on the VICE GENERAL MANAGER Jenny Liu Alex Kao role of painting within contemporary art. Jonathan MARKETING MANAGER Joyce Lin Goodman writes about Mao Yan and his commitment CIRCULATION EXECUTIVE Perry Hsu Betty Hsieh to a tradition of painting that in its figurative and academic roots straddles the artistic histories of both PRINTING Chi Wei Colour Printing Ltd. WEB SITE http://yishu-online.com the West and the East. Danielle Shang’s essay on Qiu WEB DESIGN Design Format Xiaofei highlights a shift in the artist’s work that is the ISSN 1683 - 3082 result of his persistent questioning of the relevance Yishu is published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and edited in Vancouver, Canada. The publishing dates are January, of painting today. Chia Chi Jason Wang pays homage March, May, July, September, and November. All subscription, to an artist who has been working for thirty years advertising, and submission inquiries may be sent to: and traces the incremental shifts that have brought Yishu Editorial Office his painting into a dialogue with influences that 200–1311 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada include the San Francisco’s Bay Area Figurative V6Z 2P3 Movement and the tradition of ink painting. Tianmo Phone: 1.604.649.8187 E-mail: offi[email protected] Zhang looks at an exhibition, Unscrolled, that also addresses ink painting but from a perspective that SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 year (6 issues): $84 USD (includes airmail postage) acknowledges its tradition while taking it into bold 2 years (12 issues): $158 USD (includes airmail postage) new contemporary realms. 1 Year PDF Download (6 issues): $49.95 USD (http://yishu-online.com) Please note: Owing to an significant increase in postage during the past 12 years, we are obliged to adjust accordingly the postage part of the subscription rate starting next year. For subscription rates of 2016, Keith Wallace please check on line at http://yishu-online.com DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Leap Creative Group CREATIVE DIRECTOR Raymond Mah ART DIRECTOR Gavin Chow 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. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 典藏國際版(Yishu)創刊於 2002年5月1日 典藏國際版‧第14卷第5期‧2015年9–10月 社 長: 簡秀枝 法律顧問: 思科技法律事務所 劉承慶 創刊編輯: 林蔭庭(Ken Lum) 2 編者手記 總 策 劃: 鄭勝天 主 編: 華睿思 (Keith Wallace) 編 輯: 顧珠妮 (Julie Grundvig) 4 作者小傳 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 黎俊儀 6 評2015威尼斯雙年展中國館: 網站編輯: 黎俊儀 公民社會的理想與現實的踫撞 中文編輯: 余小蕙 Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker 陳 萍 郭彥龍 行 政: 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 21 當代藝術中的中國女性主義: 語境、挑戰和轉換 顧 問: 王嘉驥 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) Taliesin T. Thomas 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) 巫 鴻 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 41 陳維與程然的場面調度 范迪安 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 田珠莉(Julie Chun) 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 胡 昉 侯瀚如 57 與智利畫家萬徒勒里女兒和平 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) (Paz Venturelli Baraona)的對話 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 鄭勝天 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. 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Shanghai since 2011. She currently serves as the Art Convener of the Royal Asiatic Jonathan Goodman studied literature at Society, China, where she delivers monthly Columbia University and the University lectures at museums and galleries to widen of Pennsylvania before becoming an art public understanding of artistic objects, past writer specializing in contemporary and present. She holds an M.A. in art history Chinese art. He teaches at Pratt Institute from San Jose State University and B.A. in and the Parsons School of Design, both in economics from the University of California New York, focusing on art criticism and at Irvine. She has also completed graduate contemporary culture. studies in Asian history at Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul, and Danielle Shang is a Los Angeles-based conducted research in modern art at UCLA. curator, writer, and art historian. Her She is a regular contributing writer to Yishu research interests include artistic and and Randian online. intellectual developments since 1976 in Chinese contemporary art history. Her recent Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is Director of focus is on the impact of globalization, the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, and former urban renewal, social change, and class director of the Museum Villa Stück, restructuring on art-making in China, Munich, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. where artists participate in the decentralized She has curated numerous exhibitions on informal economy to produce works to be both contemporary and historical art, with disseminated in the institutionalized formal a special emphasis on the history of the system of the global art world.