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An Interview with Wu Hung Winston Kyan : march / 1 M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 0 VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2 INSIDE Artist Features: Permanent (R)evolution: Zhong Biao, Will Kwan, Contemporaneity and Shen Chen the Historicization of Contemporary Chinese Guggenheim Museum’s Art Asian Art Council Emporium: A New Interviews with Wu Common Sense of Hung, Hou Hanru, Space and Thierry Raspail 1989: 365 Art Days in China and Germany US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRINTED IN TAIWAN 1 2 8 VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2, MARCH/APRIL 2010 CONTENTS 4 Editor’s Note 32 6 Contributors 8 Zhong Biao’s Abstract Panorama Paul Manfredi 22 Shen Chen: In Thrall to No One Jonathan Goodman 32 Research in Motion: An Interview with Will Kwan Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh 65 44 Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council: Universalism, Cosmopolitanism, Glocalism, or Something Else? How is Value Constructed, Denoted, and Safeguarded in Contemporary Art? 65 Artist, System, Culture On the Anthropology of Contemporary Chinese Art: An Interview with Wu Hung Winston Kyan 81 74 Permanent (R)evolution: Contemporaneity and the Historicization of Contemporary Chinese Art Paul Gladston 81 The Spectacle of the Everyday: A Conversation with Hou Hanru and Thierry Raspail about the Biennale de Lyon Keith Wallace 96 Emporium: A New Common Sense of Space Clara Galeazzi 96 104 1989: 365 Art Days in China and Germany Ellen Pearlman 109 Chinese Name Index 104 Cover: Yangjian Group, Pine Garden—As Fierce as a Tiger, 2009, installation and performance. Photo: Blaise Adion. Courtesy of Yangjiang Group. With the support of Youcast and Tang Gallery, Bangkok. 3 Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art president Katy Hsiu-chih Chien legal council Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C.C. Liu In Yishu, a variety of ideas weave and resonate ounding Ken Lum throughout different texts in each issue. For -in-chie Keith Wallace example, in Yishu 37 we are featuring three artists Zheng Shengtian with unconnected backgrounds—Zhong Biao is Julie Grundvig Kate Steinmann from mainland China and still living in China, Shen editorial assistant Chunyee Li Chen is from mainland China and has been living circulation anager Larisa Broyde in New York for more than two decades, and Will ad coordinator Ioulia Reynolds web site Chunyee Li Kwan, an artist from a younger generation, is from Hong Kong and now living in Toronto. Zhong and adisory Shen both explore aspects of abstraction in their Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum work but in different ways; Zhong has recently John Clark, University of Sydney introduced it into his primarily figurative work, Lynne Cooke, Dia Art Foundation while Shen has taken a consistent, calculated Okwui Enwezor, San Francisco Art Institute Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar & Curator approach to it for years. Shen, whose work is Fan Di’an, National Art Museum of China personal and meditative, and Kwan, whose work Fei Dawei, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation is more research-based and conceptual, both Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh Hou Hanru, San Francisco Art Institute speak of, among other things, their experience Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop as diasporic artists, how it plays into their Katie Hill, University of Westminster understanding of artistic production, and how it Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic & Historian can be both restricting and liberating. Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator Lu Jie, Independent Curator In 2007, Yishu published selected panel discussions Charles Merewether, Critic & Curator Ni Tsaichin, Tunghai University from the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council. Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand We are pleased to be publishing selections from Philip Tinari, Independent Critic & Curator the 2009 meetings in this issue as well as in the Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic & Curator Wu Hung, University of Chicago upcoming issue (May 2010). The panel published Pauline J. Yao, Independent Scholar in this issue focuses on value—a much under- discussed idea within contemporary art—from publisher Art & Collection Group Ltd. 6F. No. 85, Section 1, its aesthetic, artistic, and market perspectives. Chungshan N. Road, While the presenters did not always address Taipei, Taiwan 104 contemporary Chinese art directly, many of the Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 issues raised affect various regions throughout E-mail: [email protected] Asia and are relevant within the evolution of ice general anager Jenny Liu contemporary art in China, importantly placing it in Alex Kao dialogue with cultures other than the West. arketing anager Joyce Lin circulation executie Perry Hsu Betty Hsieh Aspects of curatorial practice also have a strong presence in Yishu 37. While the Asian Art Council webaster Website ARTCO, Taipei serves as a theoretical think tank that feeds the Chi Wei Colour Printing Ltd., curatorial programming at the Guggenheim, web site www.yishujournal.com Winston Kyan’s interview with Wu Hung, an issn 1683 - 3082 important art historian, curator, and supporter Yishu is published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and edited of contemporary Chinese art, brings to light the in Vancouver, Canada. The publishing dates are January, inquisitiveness and thoughtfulness that characterize March, May, July, September, and November. All subscription, Wu’s curatorial career from the 1980s to the present. advertising, and submission inquiries may be sent to: Paul Gladston follows this interview with a healthy Yishu Office debate directed at an essay by Wu Hung included 200–1311 Howe Street in the publication Antinomies of Art and Culture: Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2P3 Modernity, Postmodernity, and Contemporaneity. Phone: 1.604.649.8187 Discussions about curating continue with my Fax: 1.604.591.6392 interview with Hou Hanru and Thierry Raspail E-mail: [email protected] about Hou’s innovative and provocative curatorial subscription rates proposition for the 2009 Biennale de Lyon; Clara 1 year (six issues): $84 USD (includes $24 for airmail postage); Galeazzi’s review of the exhibition Emporium: in Asia $78 USD (includes $18 for airmail postage). 2 years (twelve issues): $158 USD (includes $48 for airmail A New Common Sense of Space, an unusual project postage); in Asia $146 USD (including $36 for airmail postage). that integrated the physical, psychological, and sensual space of both the gallery and the artwork; design and Leap Creative Group e Raymond Mah and, finally, Ellen Pearlman’s review of a new book art Director Gavin Chow by Huang Rui that is more visual than textual, and as designer Philip Wong much a curatorial project as it is a publication. No part of this journal may be reprinted without the written permission from the publisher. The views expressed in Yishu are Keith Wallace4 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9卷第2期‧2010年3–4月 社 長： 簡秀枝 法律顧問： 益思科技法律事務所 劉承慶 創刊編輯： 林蔭庭（Ken Lum） 總 策 劃： 鄭勝天 4 編者手記 主 編： 華睿思 (Keith Wallace) 副 編 輯： 顧珠妮 (Julie Grundvig) 作者小傳 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 6 編輯助理： 黎俊儀 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 廣 告： 雷幽雅（Ioulia Reynolds） 8 鐘飆的抽象全景 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 (Chunyee Li) Paul Manfredi（魏樸） 顧 問： 王嘉驥 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) 22 沈忱：不受約束 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) Jonathan Goodman 巫 鴻 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 范迪安 32 研究在進行中：關威利訪談 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 胡 昉 侯瀚如 44 古根漢美術館亞洲藝委會討論： 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) 普世主義、世界主義、全球在地主義、 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. Yao) 還有什麼？―當代藝術的價值如何 倪再沁 構建、標識和維護？ 高名潞 費大爲 楊天娜 (Martina Köppel-Yang) 65 藝術家、體制、文化―當代中國藝術的 盧 杰 人類學：與巫鴻的訪談 Lynne Cooke Okwui Enwezor Winston Kyan （釧嘉高） Katie Hill Charles Merewether 74 永遠的革新（革命）：當代中國藝術的 Apinan Poshyananda 當代性和歷史化 出 版： 典藏雜誌社 Paul Gladston 副總經理： 劉靜宜 高世光 行銷總監： 林素珍 81 日常奇觀：與侯瀚如和Thierry Raspail 發行專員： 許銘文 謝宜蓉 談里昂雙年展 社 址： 台灣臺北市中山北路一段85號6樓 Keith Wallace 電話: (886) 2.2560.2220 傳真：(886) 2.2542.0631 電子信箱：[email protected] 96 商場：一種空間的新常識 Clara Galeazzi 編 輯 部： Yishu Office 200-1311 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2P3, Canada 104 「1989：365中德藝術」書評 電話: (1) 604.649.8187 Ellen Pearlman 傳真：(1) 604.591.6392 電子信箱: [email protected] 訂閱、投稿及廣告均請與編輯部聯系。 109 中英人名對照 設 計： Leap Creative Group, Vancouver 創意總監： 馬偉培 藝術總監： 周繼宏 設 計 師： 黃健斌 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。 一年6期。逢1、3、5、7、9、11月出版。 網 址： www.yishujournal.com 管 理： 典藏雜誌社 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 封面：陽江組，松樹花園―如虎之猛, 2009, 裝置與行為 郵資）。亞洲地區一年78美元，兩年146美元 藝術，攝影: Blaise Adion。陽江組，Youcast 及曼谷唐人 （含航空郵資）。 畫廊提供 訂閱單可從本刊網址下載。 版權所有，本刊內容非經本社同意不得翻譯和轉載。 本刊登載內容並不代表編輯部與出版社立場。 5 Contributors Alissa Firth-Eagland and Johan Lundh His recent publications include Art are a curatorial duo. Together with History After Deconstruction (2005) and artists, curators, writers, and scholars, “Sublime Ruins—Monumental Follies: they engineer frameworks for artistic and The Photo(historio)graphy of Erasmus discursive actions for organizations such Schroeter,” in Post-Conflict Cultures: Rituals as the Baltic Art Centre (Visby, Sweden), of Representation (2006). Index Foundation (Stockholm), Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (Dale, Norway), Nordic Jonathan Goodman studied literature at Institute for Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Columbia University and the University of Western Front (Vancouver) and YYZ Artists' Pennsylvania before becoming an art writer Outlet (Toronto). They have written for specializing in contemporary Chinese art. Art Lies, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Fillip, He teaches at Pratt Institute and the Parsons Konstperspektiv, Paletten, and Site Magazine. School of Design, focusing on art criticism and contemporary culture. David Elliott is a curator, lecturer, publisher, editor, and writer focusing on non-Western Hongnam Kim holds a B.A. in Aesthetics modern and contemporary art from Russia, from Seoul National University and a Japan, China, Latin America, and Africa. Ph.D. in Chinese Art history from Yale He studied history at the University of University.
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