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M A Y / J U N E 2 0 1 2 VOLU M E 1 1 , N U M B E R 3 1 0 T H A N N I V ERSARY YEAR INS I DE Special Issue: Yellow Signal: New Media in China US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRI nt E D I N TA I WA N 6 VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3, MAY/J une 2 0 1 2 CONTENTS 2 Editor’s Note 48 4 Contributors 6 Contemporary Chinese Art in Vancouver Introduction to Yellow Signal: New Media in China Zheng Shengtian 13 China: Then and Now Barbara London 58 30 Interview with Wang Jianwei on Yellow Signal Zheng Shengtian 42 Kan Xuan: Performing the Imagination Joni Low 48 Wind, Life Stilled, and Wild, Lissome Things: The Work of Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, and Huang Ran Karen Smith 58 Fifth Night: Interview with Yang Fudong 66 Daina Augaitis 66 Liu Xiaodong vs. Hou Hsiao-hsien: An Interview Kao Tzu-chin 75 RongRong & inri: More Photographs in the River of Time Britta Erickson 82 The Different Worlds of Cao Fei 75 Alice Ming Wai Jim 91 The Formative Years: Social Media and Art in China Diana Freundl 102 Question and Answer with An Xiao Mina Diana Freundl 105 List of Galleries and Acknowledments 91 106 Chinese Name Index Cover: Wang Jianwei, Position, 2012, 4-channel video installation. Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Courtesy of the artist. We thank JNBY Art Projects, Canadian Foundation of Asian Art, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Li, and Stephanie Holmquist and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. Vol. 11 No. 3 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 This edition of Yishu marks both the fiftieth issue and Ken Lum the close of our tenth year of publishing. The staff at -in-chie Keith Wallace Yishu would like to thank all our supporters including Zheng Shengtian Julie Grundvig our funders, subscribers, and writers. It is you who Kate Steinmann make this journal a success. editorial assistant Chunyee Li circulation anager Larisa Broyde coordinator Michelle Hsieh On this occasion we present a special issue devoted web site Chunyee Li to the multi-gallery exhibition Yellow Signal: New adisory Media in China, initiated and curated by Yishu Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Managing Editor Zheng Shengtian and a project Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum of Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for John Clark, University of Sydney Lynne Cooke, Museo Reina Sofia Contemporary Asian Art. The participating galleries Okwui Enwezor, Critic & Curator include Centre A, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar & Curator Fan Di’an, National Art Museum of China Vancouver Art Gallery, Pacific Cinémathèque, Fei Dawei, Independent Critic & Curator Republic Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, and Charles H. Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh Hou Hanru, San Francisco Art Institute Scott Gallery. Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Katie Hill, University of Westminster The notion of “yellow signal” forms the thematic of Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic & Historian this exhibition and implies entry into an intersection Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator at a critical moment when there is the need to make Lu Jie, Independent Curator Charles Merewether, Director, ICA Singapore a decision either to be cautious and hold back or to Ni Tsaichin, Tunghai University take a chance and proceed forward—a situation Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand that Zheng Shengtian suggests exists for artists in Philip Tinari, Independent Critic & Curator Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic & Curator mainland China as well as in many other regions. The Wu Hung, University of Chicago rapid growth of new media and its impact, especially Pauline J. Yao, Independent Scholar in the virtual world, makes the idea of “yellow signal” Art & Collection Group Ltd. even more compelling. 6F. No. 85, Section 1, Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 Yishu 50 includes eleven essays and interviews by Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 nine authors covering the early development of new Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 E-mail: [email protected] media in mainland China through to the present. In mainland China, the idea of new media has a different ice general anager Jenny Liu Alex Kao resonance than in other parts of the world, including arketing anager Joyce Lin Hong Kong and Taiwan. For decades, art training circulation executie Perry Hsu was the purview of academies that concentrated on Betty Hsieh the traditions of painting, sculpture, and printmaking, Chi Wei Colour Printing Ltd. and it is only recently that photography has earned web site http://yishu-online.com a respected place within the field of fine art. In their web design Design Format introductory texts, both Zheng Shengtian and MoMA/ 1683 - 3082 NY Video and Media Curator Barbara London offer Yishu is published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and edited very personal perspectives; the first follows the in Vancouver, Canada. The publishing dates are January, fifteen-year history of presenting contemporary March, May, July, September, and November. All subscription, advertising, and submission inquiries may be sent to: Chinese art in Vancouver, and the second tracks London’s encounters with new media during her early Yishu Editorial Office travels to mainland China. 200–1311 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2P3 The artists included in Yellow Signal are Cao Fei, Phone: 1.604.649.8187 Fax: 1.604.591.6392 Forget Art Collective, Ge Fei, Lin Zhen, Geng Jianyi, E-mail: [email protected] Huang Ran, Kan Xuan, Liu Xiaodong, Lu Yang, Remon subscription rates Wang, RongRong & inri, Wang Jianwei, Yang Fudong, 1 year (6 issues): $84 USD (includes airmail postage) Zhang Lehua, and Zhang Peili. This extraordinary 2 years (12 issues): $158 USD (includes airmail postage) range of artists represents some of the pioneers of 1 Year PDF Download (6 issues): $49.95 USD (http://yishu-online.com) new media in China as well as a younger generation Leap Creative Group whose work ranges from photography to video to e Raymond Mah art director Gavin Chow virtual reality. designer Philip Wong No part of this journal may be reprinted without the written permission from the publisher. The views expressed in Yishu are Keith Wallace not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 典藏國際版創刊於 2002年5月1日 典藏國際版‧第11卷第3期‧2012年5–6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) 4 作者小傳 副 編 輯： 顧珠妮 (Julie Grundvig) 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 編輯助理： 黎俊儀 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 6 當代中國藝術在溫哥華 廣 告： 謝盈盈 — 介紹《黃燈：中國新影像藝術》 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 (Chunyee Li) 鄭勝天 顧 問： 王嘉驥 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) 13 中國：撫昔論今 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) 巫 鴻 Barbara London 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 范迪安 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 30 汪建偉談《黃燈》 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 鄭勝天 胡 昉 侯瀚如 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) 42 闞萱：發揮想像 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 劉植紅（Joni Low） 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. Yao) 倪再沁 高名潞 費大爲 48 風、静、狂：評張培力、耿建翌、 楊天娜 (Martina Köppel-Yang) 黃然的作品 盧 杰 Karen Smith Lynne Cooke Okwui Enwezor Katie Hill 58 《第五夜》：楊福東訪談 Charles Merewether Daina Augaitis Apinan Poshyananda 出 版： 典藏雜誌社 副總經理： 劉靜宜 66 對話劉小東與侯孝賢 高世光 高子衿 行銷總監： 林素珍 發行專員： 許銘文 謝宜蓉 75 榮榮和映里：時間長河中的攝影 社 址： 台灣臺北市中山北路一段85號6樓 林似竹（Britta Erickson） 電話: (886) 2.2560.2220 傳真：(886) 2.2542.0631 電子信箱：[email protected] 82 曹斐的不同世界 編 輯 部： Yishu Office 詹明慧（Alice Ming Wai Jim） 200-1311 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2P3, Canada 電話: (1) 604.649.8187 91 成長年代：中國的社交媒體與藝術 傳真：(1) 604.591.6392 Diana Freundl 電子信箱: [email protected] 訂閱、投稿及廣告均請與編輯部聯系。 102 與安小的問答 設 計： Leap Creative Group, Vancouver Diana Freundl 創意總監： 馬偉培 藝術總監： 周繼宏 設 計 師： 黃健斌 105 展覽機構與贊助者一覽表 印 刷： 臺北崎威彩藝有限公司 本刊在溫哥華編輯設計，臺北印刷出版發行。 106 中英人名對照 一年6期。逢1、3、5、7、9、11月出版。 網 址： http://yishu-online.com 管 理： Design Format 國際刊號: 1683-3082 售價每本12美元。 訂 閲：一年84美元，兩年158美元（含航空郵資）。 封面：汪建偉：《位置》（局部），四屏錄像 裝置。2012年，溫哥華亞洲當代藝術國際中心。 網上下載： 一年49.95美元 網上訂閱： http://yishu-online.com 藝術家提供 感謝JNBY、加拿大亞洲藝術基金會、李世默夫 版權所有，本刊內容非經本社同意不得翻譯和轉載。 婦、Stephanie Holmquist 和 Mark Allison 對本刊 本刊登載內容並不代表編輯部與出版社立場。 出版與發行的慷慨支持 Contributors Daina Augaitis has been Chief Curator Stanford, and she co-curated the 2007 and Associate Director at the Vancouver Chengdu Biennial. In addition, she has Art Gallery in Canada since 1996. She was authored three books as well as numerous formerly the director of the Visual Arts articles and essays on contemporary Chinese Program at The Banff Centre for the Arts art practice, collecting, and criticism. Her (1992–95) and has held curatorial positions current major project is to produce a series at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (1986–92); of short films about ink painting, which will Western Front, Vancouver (1983–86); be accompanied by a book. Convertible Showroom, Vancouver (1984–86); and Franklin Furnace, New Diana Freundl has a B.A. in comparative York (1982). Over the past decade, she has religion and philosophy with graduate organized numerous solo exhibitions of studies in journalism. She was a staff artists such as Rebecca Belmore (co-curated reporter in Taipei, Taiwan, covering arts and with Kathleen Ritter), Song Dong, Stan features from 2002 to 2005 before moving Douglas, Brian Jungen, Muntadas, Gillian to Beijing to study at the Tsinghua Academy Wearing, and Paul Wong. Many of her group of Arts and Design. In 2006 she joined the exhibitions have explored socially based curatorial department of the Museum of ideas, including Visceral Bodies (2010) and Contemporary Art (MoCA), Shanghai, the collaborative project Baja to Vancouver: where she worked until 2009.
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    Viewer’s Guide Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn , 1995 APRIL 13 – JULY 2, 2017 This guide serves as a viewer’s supplement to the exhibition#AiWeiwei and contains information about the works on view, questions for looking and discussion, and suggested readings. You may download this guide from the museum’s website at mocp.org/education/resources-for-educators.php. To schedule a free docent-led tour, please complete the form here. mocp.org/education/tours-and-print-viewings.php. The MoCP is generously supported by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP Advisory Board, Museum Council, individuals, and private and corporate foundations. The 2016–2017 season is sponsored by the Efroymson Family Fund and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Viewer’s Guide Contents Introduction 1 Series Text 2 Timeline 9 Questions for Looking and Discussion 11 Extended Resources 13 Illumination, 2009 Introduction Known as one of the world’s most provocative artists, Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) creates work that boldly confronts contemporary sociopolitical issues, both in China and abroad. Prolific in practice, Ai has for over thirty years blurred the boundaries between art and politics, often at great personal risk. As an outspoken human rights activist, writer, and curator, Ai crosses multiple disciplines in his practice, working in sculpture, public works, film, music, poetry, photography, and social media. Designed by the artist specifically for the Museum of Contemporary Photography, #AiWeiwei pairs Ai’s early diaristic photographs from the 1980s and ’90s in New York City and Beijing with his recent social media–based installations, work that he refers to as “photo activism.” Ai’s fame drives over half a million followers to his Twitter and Instagram pages.
  • Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese

    Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese

    M a r c h 2 0 0 7 | Spring Issue Inside A Tribute to Jonathan Napack Taipei Biennial 2006 Documenta 12 Magazines Special Feature on Education Interviews with Cai Guo-Qiang, Shen Yuan, Ed Pien US$12.00 NT$350.00 Contents 4 Editor’s Note 6 Contributors A Tribute to Jonathan Napack 8 Death and Destruction in Bangkok Jonathan Napack 14 Yishu Interview with Jonathan Napack 16 An Art Market with Chinese Characteristics Jonathan Napack Feature Articles 19 Taipei Biennial 2006 Susan Kendzulak 26 Writing on The Wall (and Entry Gate): A Critical Response to Recent Curatorial Meditations on the "Chineseness" of 5 Contemporary Chinese Visual Art Paul Gladston 34 Starting from Zero: Wang Jianwei David Ho Yeung Chan Interviews 39 Shock and Awe: An Interview with Cai Guo-Qiang John K. Grande 45 A Conversation with Shen Yuan 9 Cécile Bourne 50 The Poetics of Engagement: Ed Pien and the Three- Dimensional World Joni Low Documenta 12 Magazines Feature on Education 57 A Response to the Yan’an Forum on Education in China Lisa Norton 62 Interview with Zhu Naizheng 50 Zheng Shengtian 73 Cultures of Assessment: Distinctive Characteristics of Assessment in U.K. Art and Design Higher Education and their Implementation in China Allan Walker and Raz Barfield 85 Some Thoughts on Art Game: An Experience of Agency in Contemporary Art Yü Christina Yü 91 Building a Contemporary Art "Campus Aircraft Carrier"— 88 A Discourse on How to Encourage Contemporary Questions About Art Among Taiwanese Youth Lin Ping 103 Potentially Wise? The Boom in Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Education Jaspar K.