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Inside January/February 2018 Volume 17, Number 1 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1 INSIDE Shanghai: Its Galleries and Museums Conversations with Artists in the KADIST Collection Artist Features: Pak Sheung Chen, Tsang Kin Wah, Zhu Fadong, Zhang Huan US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRINTED IN TAIWAN 1 Vol. 17 No. 1 8 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 CONTENTS 30 4 Editor’s Note 6 Contributors 8 Contemporary Art and the Contemporary Art Museum: Shanghai and Its Biennale John Clark 30 (Inter)Dependency: Privately Owned Art Museums in State-Sponsored West Bund 46 Xing Zhao 46 Out of Sight: Conversations with Artists in the KADIST Collection Biljana Ciric 66 Pak Sheung Chuen: Art as a Personal Journey in Times of Political Upheaval Julia Gwendolyn Schneider 80 Entangled Histories: Unraveling the Work of Tsang Kin-Wah 66 Helen Wong 85 Zhu Fadong: Why Art Is Powerless to Make Social Change Denisa Tomkova 97 Public Displays of Affliction: On Zhang Huan’s 12m2 Chan Shing Kwan 108 Chinese Name Index 80 97 Cover: In memoriam, Geng Jianyi, 1962–2017. Courtesy of Zheng Shengtian. Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art PRESIDENT Katy Hsiu-chih Chien LEGAL COUNSEL Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C. C. Liu Mainland China’s museum and gallery scene FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum has evolved rapidly over the past decade. Yishu EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian 84 opens with two essays examining Shanghai, EDITORS Julie Grundvig a city that is taking strategic approaches Kate Steinmann in its recognition of culture as an essential Chunyee Li CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde component of a vibrant urban experience. John WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li Clark focuses on the influence the Shanghai ADVERTISING Sen Wong Michelle Hsieh Biennale has had on galleries and museums, INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL and Xing Zhao looks into the phenomenon of the Junjun Liu private museums that have recently populated Chris Mao Bing Yang Shanghai’s West Bund district, both writers Vivian Jianhui Zhang taking note within this growth of the challenges ADVISORY BOARD faced by the art professionals who must fulfill Judy Andrews, Ohio State University the programs. These two essays build upon Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden John Clark, University of Sydney those presented in earlier issues of Yishu by Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Biljana Ciric and Julie Chun and exemplify our Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator aim to encourage ongoing discourses. Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh Next we present conversations Biljana Ciric Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome carried out with six Chinese artists who Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Katie Hill, University of Westminster are included in the collection of KADIST, an Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive organization based in Paris and San Francisco Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator that believes in the freedom of creativity. Lu Jie, Long March Space The artists Ciric selected are for the most Charles Merewether, Critic and Curator part relatively young, highly experimental, Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and make work that operates outside of the Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator art mainstream. Julia Gwendolyn Schneider Wu Hung, University of Chicago Pauline J. Yao, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District and Helen Wong discuss a Hong Kong-based ART & COLLECTION GROUP LTD. artists, Pak Sheung Chuen and Tsang Kin Wah, 6F. No. 85, Section 1, Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 respectively, who also take non-conservative Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 approaches to their artwork. What is E-mail: [email protected] distinct is their mix of the poetical with the VICE GENERAL MANAGER Jenny Liu political, which results in a disconcerting and MARKETING MANAGER Joyce Lin provocative aesthetic experience. CIRCULATION EXECUTIVE Perry Hsu Yishu is produced bi-monthly in Vancouver, Canada, and published Denisa Tomkova examines Zhu Fadong’s in Taipei, Taiwan. The publishing dates are January, March, May, July, September, and November. All subscription, advertising, and submission Identity Cards project, which began in 1998, inquiries may be sent to: and Chan Shing Kwan focuses on Zhang Huan’s YISHU INITIATIVE OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART SOCIETY seminal 1994 performance 12m2. These two 200–1311 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2P3 Phone: 1.604.649.8187 artists, whose work in the 1990s reflected their E-mail: offi[email protected] discontent with the implications of mainland DIRECTOR Zheng Shengtian China’s urban renewal for migrant workers and SECRETARY GENERAL Yin Qing the disenfranchised, explore the idea of what RETAIL RATES USD $12 / EUR 9 / TWD 350 constitutes full participation as a citizen. (per copy) SUBSCRIPTION RATES Our cover features a portrait of artist Geng 1 Year Print Copy (6 issues including air mail postage): Asia $94 USD/Outside Asia $104 USD Jianyi in recognition of his recent passing 2 Years Print Copy (12 issues including air mail postage): in December 2017. Geng Jianyi was an Asia $180 USD/Outside Asia $198 USD uncompromising artist who made an 1 Year PDF Download (6 issues): $49.95 USD indispensible contribution to contemporary 1 Year Print Copy and PDF (6 issues including air mail postage): Asia $134 USD/Outside Asia $144 USD Chinese art beginning with his first exhibition in DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Leap Creative Group the mid-1980s. He was recipient of the 2017 Art CREATIVE DIRECTOR Raymond Mah Award of China as Artist of the Year. ART DIRECTOR Gavin Chow DESIGNER Philip Wong PRINTING Chi Wei Colour Printing Ltd. WEB SITE http://yishu-online.com WEB DESIGN Design Format Keith Wallace ISSN 1683 - 3082 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. 典藏國際版(Yishu)創刊於 2002年5月1日 Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 典藏國際版‧第17卷第1期‧2018年1–2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） 總策劃： 鄭勝天 4 編者手記 主 編： 華睿思 (Keith Wallace) 編 輯： 顧珠妮 (Julie Grundvig) 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 6 作者小傳 黎俊儀 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 8 當代藝術和當代美術館：上海及其 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 廣 告： 謝盈盈 雙年展 黃 晨 John Clark 國際委員會： 劉珺珺 茅為清 楊 濱 30 依附與共生：國有西岸文化區中的私 張建暉 人美術館 顧 問： 王嘉驥 趙幸 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) 巫 鴻 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 46 視線之外：與KADIST基金會收藏的 范迪安 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 藝術家對話 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) Biljana Ciric 胡 昉 侯瀚如 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 66 白雙全：作為政治動盪期個人歷程 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. Yao) 高名潞 的藝術 費大爲 Julia Gwendolyn Schneider 楊天娜 (Martina Köppel-Yang) 盧 杰 Lynne Cooke Okwui Enwezor 80 糾結的歷史：曾建華作品試析 Katie Hill 黃煜真（Helen Wong） Charles Merewether Apinan Poshyananda 出 版： 典藏藝術家庭有限公司 朱發東—為何藝術無力推動社會 副總經理： 劉靜宜 85 高世光 變革 行銷總監： 林素珍 Denisa Tomkova 發行專員： 許銘文 謝宜蓉 地 址： 台灣台北市中山北路一段85號6樓 電話: (886) 2.2560.2220 97 備嘗艱苦：張洹的12m2 傳真：(886) 2.2542.0631 電子信箱：[email protected] 陳承焜（Chan Shing Kwan ） 編輯製作： Yishu Initiative of Contemporary Chinese Art Society 加中當代藝術協會 108 中英人名對照 會 長： 鄭勝天 秘書長： 陰晴 地 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聯繫。 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）： 亞洲180美元 / 亞洲以外地區198美元 一年網上下載： 49.95美元 一年6期加網上下載： 亞洲134美元 / 亞洲以外地區144美元 版權所有，本刊內容非經本社同意不得翻譯和轉載。 封面：耿建翌（1962﹣2017）， 攝影，鄭勝天提供 本刊登載內容並不代表編輯部與出版社立場。 Contributors Chan Shing Kwan is a Hong Kong-based (2016). She also curated Encounters with researcher and an aspiring art historian who Pompidou within the exhibition Museum On/ recently graduated with a master’s degree off, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016). Ciric in the history of art and visual culture was a research fellow in 2016 at the Henie at the University of Oxford, United Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway. She has been Kingdom. Supported by the Arnold, Bryce, and a jury member for a number of awards, Read Fund and the St. Cross Travel & Research including Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2013), Fund, his master’s dissertation examines and she is on the nominating council for Vera abjection, resistance, and Chinese performance List Prize for Art and Politics (2014–15). art in the 1990s. A copy of his dissertation She was nominated for an Independent is kept at Oxford’s Sackler Library. Chan is Curators International (ICI) Independent currently a research assistant at his alma mater, Vision Curatorial Award in 2012. the University of Hong Kong. His recent academic interests include twentieth-century John Clark, Professor Emeritus in Art History Chinese art, consumerism, and visual culture. at the University of Sydney, is the author of five books and editor or co-editor of another Biljana Ciric works as an independent curator. five. His book Asian Modernities: Chinese and Her recent exhibitions include When the Thai Art of the 1980s and 1990s (Sydney: Power Other Meets the Other Other, presented by Publications, 2010) is a cross-disciplinary Cultural Center Belgrade (2017); Proposals for inter-Asian comparison of modern art and art Surrender, presented by McAM in Shanghai worlds; it won the Best Art Book Prize of the (2016–17); and This Exhibition Will Tell You Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Everything About FY Art Foundations, at the in 2011. His other published works include Frank F. Yang Art and Education Foundation, Modernities of Chinese Art (Leiden: Brill, 2010) Shenzhen (2017).
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