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September/October 2016 Volume 15, Number 5 Inside SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5 INSI DE Chengdu Performance Art, 2012–2016 Interview with Raqs Media Collective on the 2016 Shanghai Biennale Artist Features: Cui Xiuwen, Qu Fengguo, Ying Yefu, Zhou Yilun Buried Alive: Chapter 1 US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRINTED IN TAIWAN 6 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016 C ONT ENT S 23 2 Editor’s Note 4 Contributors 6 Chengdu Performance Art, 2012–2016 Sophia Kidd 23 Qu Fengguo: Temporal Configurations Julie Chun 36 36 Cui Xiuwen Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 48 Propositioning the World: Raqs Media Collective and the Shanghai Biennale Maya Kóvskaya 59 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Danielle Shang 48 67 Art Labor and Ying Yefu: Between the Amateur and the Professional Jacob August Dreyer 72 Buried Alive: Chapter 1 (to be continued) Lu Huanzhi 91 Chinese Name Index 59 Cover: Zhang Yu, One Man's Walden Pond with Tire, 2014, 67 performance, one day, Lijiang. Courtesy of the artist. We thank JNBY Art Projects, Chen Ping, David Chau, Kevin Daniels, Qiqi Hong, Sabrina Xu, David Yue, Andy Sylvester, Farid Rohani, Ernest Lang, D3E Art Limited, Stephanie Holmquist, and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. 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 Performance art has a strong legacy in FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum southwest China, particularly in the city EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian of Chengdu. Sophia Kidd, who previously EDITORS Julie Grundvig contributed two texts on performance art in this Kate Steinmann Chunyee Li region (Yishu 44, Yishu 55), updates us on an EDITORS (CHINESE VERSION) Yu Hsiao Hwei Chen Ping art medium that has shifted emphasis over the Guo Yanlong years but continues to maintain its presence CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li and has been welcomed by a new generation ADVERTISING Sen Wong of artists. Michelle Hsieh ADVISORY BOARD Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Painting also figures strongly in Yishu 76. Julie Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden John Clark, University of Sydney Chun writes on Qu Fengguo, a Shanghai artist Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. who since the 1980s has devoted his career Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator to developing the language of abstraction in Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator his painting. Like Ding Yi, another Shanghai Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh artist of the same generation, he has refined Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop rather than “explored” this genre, in this case Katie Hill, University of Westminster creating a body of work that is in dialogue with Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian the passing of time and the change of seasons. Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator Lu Jie, Long March Space In a different vein, Cui Xiuwen, best known Charles Merewether, Critic and Curator for her photographic scenarios of young girls Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art going through adolescence, has more recently Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator turned to abstraction within the context of both Wu Hung, University of Chicago Pauline J. Yao, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District Chinese and Western art history. ART & COLLECTION GROUP LTD. 6F. No. 85, Section 1, Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 Outside of abstraction is the idiosyncratic Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 painting of Hangzhou artist Zhou Yilun. Danielle E-mail: [email protected] Shang places his work within the realm of “bad VICE GENERAL MANAGER Jenny Liu MARKETING MANAGER Joyce Lin painting” and a punk aesthetic, a sensibility that CIRCULATION EXECUTIVE Perry Hsu has gained little traction within the mainstream Yishu is produced and published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan and and has come to represent a form of resistance Vancouver, Canada, and published in Taipei, Taiwan. The publishing dates are January, March, May, July, September, and November. All to the accepted art system. Also outside of the subscription, advertising, and submission inquiries may be sent to: mainstream are the paintings of Ying Yefu who YISHU INITIATIVE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART SOCIETY brings the tradition of gongbi style painting into 200–1311 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2P3 Phone: 1.604.649.8187 contemporary realms. Jacob August Dreyer E-mail: offi[email protected] discusses Ying Yefu’s work within a critique of DIRECTOR Zheng Shengtian Shanghai’s current art scene and how the artist SECRETARY GENERAL Yin Qing maintains his integrity within an industry that is RETAIL RATES USD $12 / EUR 9 / TWD 350 (per copy) fixated on art as commodity. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year Print Copy (6 issues including air mail postage): Maya Kóvskaya interviews Raqs Media Asia $94 USD/Outside Asia $104 USD Collective, curators of the 2016 Shanghai 2 Years Print Copy (12 issues including air mail postage): Asia $180 USD/Outside Asia $198 USD Biennale, and queries their approach to 1 Year PDF Download (6 issues): $49.95 USD curating a large group exhibition and how it 1 Year Print Copy and PDF (6 issues including air mail postage): has the potential to become an immersive Asia $134 USD/Outside Asia $144 USD experience that is propositional and DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Leap Creative Group CREATIVE DIRECTOR Raymond Mah conversational. ART DIRECTOR Gavin Chow DESIGNER Philip Wong PRINTING Chi Wei Colour Printing Ltd. In conclusion, we present the second WEB SITE http://yishu-online.com installment of Lu Huanzhi’s textual artwork WEB DESIGN Design Format ISSN 1683 - 3082 Buried Alive, a comment upon Chinese society and the role of contemporary art within it. 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 典藏國際版(Yishu)創刊於 2002年5月1日 典藏國際版‧第15卷第5期‧2016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） 編者手記 總 策 劃： 鄭勝天 2 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 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 6 成都的行為藝術：2012 ─ 2016 Sophia Kidd 中文編輯： 余小蕙 陳 萍 郭彥龍 23 曲豐國：時間構造 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 廣 告： 謝盈盈 田珠莉（Julie Chun） 黃晨 顧 問： 王嘉驥 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) 36 崔岫聞 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 巫 鴻 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 范迪安 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 48 向世界提問：Raqs媒體小組和上海雙 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 年展 胡 昉 侯瀚如 邁涯 （Maya Kóvskaya） 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. Yao) 高名潞 59 《好壞醜——黃金三鏢客》 費大爲 尚端（Danielle Shang） 楊天娜 (Martina Köppel-Yang) 盧 杰 Lynne Cooke Okwui Enwezor 67 Art Labor畫廊和嬰野賦：在業餘與 Katie Hill 專業之間 Charles Merewether Apinan Poshyananda Jacob August Dreyer 出 版： 典藏藝術家庭股份有限公司 副總經理： 劉靜宜 行銷總監： 林素珍 72 活埋：第一章（待續） 發行專員： 許銘文 陸換之 社 址： 台灣台北市中山北路一段85號6樓 電話: (886) 2.2560.2220 傳真：(886) 2.2542.0631 電子信箱：[email protected] 91 中英人名對照 編輯製作： 加中當代藝術創進協會 (Yishu Initiative of Contemporary Chinese Art Society) 會 長： 鄭勝天 秘書長： 陰晴 會 址： 200-1311 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2P3, Canada 電話: (1) 604.649.8187 電子信箱: offi[email protected] 訂閱、投稿及廣告均請與Yishu Initiative聯系。 設計製作： 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： 台北崎威彩藝有限公司 本刊在溫哥華編輯設計，台北印刷出版發行。 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 / 9歐元 / 350台幣 一年6期 （含航空郵資）： 亞洲94美元 / 亞洲以外地區104美元 兩年12期 （含航空郵資）： 封面：張羽， 「瓦爾登湖之輪」，2014， 亞洲180美元 / 亞洲以外地區198美元 行為，一天，中國雲南麗江，藝術家提供 一年網上下載： 49.95美元 感謝李琳、 陳萍、 周大為、Keven Daniels、 一年6期加網上下載： 徐依夢、余啟賢、洪琪琪、Andy Sylvester 亞洲134美元 / 亞洲以外地區144美元 Farid Rohani 、Ernest Lang、D3E Art Limited、 賀芳霓 （Stephanie Holmquist）和Mark Allison 、 版權所有，本刊內容非經本社同意不得翻譯和轉載。 對本刊出版與發行的慷慨支持 本刊登載內容並不代表編輯部與出版社立場。 Contributors Julie Chun is an independent art historian for the Future (2011), at the Asia Triennial, and lecturer who has been based in Shanghai Manchester; and Alternatives to Ritual (2012– since 2011. She serves as the Art Convener of 13), at Goethe Open Space Shanghai and the Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai, OCAT, Shenzhen. In 2013, Ciric initiated where she delivers monthly lectures at the seminar platform From a History of museums and galleries to widen the public’s Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition understanding of artistic objects, past and Making. She is a regular contributor to several present. She lectures frequently on art for the Chinese and international art publications, various foreign Consulate General offices in including Broadsheet, Yishu, Flash Art, Shanghai and organizes art lectures at the and Independent Critic. Ciric has been a jury Shanghai American Center. She holds an M.A. member for a number of awards including the in Art History from San Jose State University Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2013) and was a and B.A. in Economics from University of member of the nominating council for Vera California at Irvine. She has also completed List Prize for Art and Politics (2014–15). graduate studies in East Asian Modern History She was nominated for the ICI Independent at Yonsei Graduate School of International Vision Curatorial Award in 2012. Studies in Seoul and conducted research in Modern Art at UCLA. She is a regular Jacob August Dreyer is a Shanghai-based contributor to Yishu Journal of Contemporary writer and editor. Recently, he edited LEAP Chinese Art, and her art reviews have been magazine’s special supplement “A New Nature” published in Randian and LEAP online.
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