: january / february 9 January/February 2009 | Volume 8, Number 1 Inside Special Feature: The Phenomenon of Asian Biennials and Triennials Artist Features: Yang Shaobin, Li Yifan Art and the Cultural Revolution US$12.00 NT$350.00 6 VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 CONTENTS 2 Editor’s Note 32 4 Contributors Autumn 2008 Asian Biennials 6 Premature Farewell and Recycled Urbanism: Guangzhou Triennial and Shanghai Biennale in 2008 Hilary Tsiu 16 Post-West: Guangzhou Triennial, Taipei Biennial, and Singapore Biennale Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Contemporary Asian Art and the Phenomenon of the Biennial 30 Introduction 54 Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen 32 Biennials and the Circulation of Contemporary Asian Art John Clark 41 Periodical Exhibitions in China: Diversity of Motivation and Format Britta Erickson 47 Who’s Speaking? Who’s Listening? The Post-colonial and the Transnational in Contestation and the Strategies of the Taipei Biennial and the Beijing International Art Biennale Kao Chien-hui 54 Contradictions, Violence, and Multiplicity in the Globalization of Culture: The Gwangju Biennale 78 Sohl Lee 61 The Imagined Trans-Asian Community and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen Artist Features 67 Excerpts fom Yang Shaobin’s Notebook: A Textual Interpretation of X-Blind Spot Long March Writing Group 78 Li Yifan: From Social Archives to Social Project Bao Dong Art During the Cultural Revolution 94 84 Art and China’s Revolution Barbara Pollack 88 Zheng Shengtian and Hank Bull in Conversation about the Exhibition Art and China’s Revolution, Asia Society, New York 94 Red, Smooth, and Ethnically Unified: Ethnic Minorities in Propaganda Posters of the People’s Republic of China Micki McCoy Reviews 101 Chen Jiagang: The Great Third Front Jonathan Goodman 106 AAA Project: Review of A-Z, 26 Locations to Put Everything 101 Melissa Lam 109 Chinese Name Index Yuan Goang-Ming, Floating, 2000, single-channel video, 3 mins. 50 secs. Courtesy of the artist and the Singapore Biennale. 1 Editors Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art president Katy Hsiu-chih Chien While comments about biennial fatigue continued ndin editr Ken Lum to grow, the autumn of 2008 was a banner year in the Asia Pacific region, with no fewer than editr Keith Wallace nin editr Zheng Shengtian nine biennials/triennials opening within weeks ssite editrs Julie Grundvig of each other. Yishu 30 presents two reviews Kate Steinmann examining four of these events and brings into editril ssistnt Chunyee Li focus the impact of the curatorial propositions that irltin nager Larisa Broyde were intended to make each of them important d ner Joyce Lin web site editr Chunyee Li and distinct within what is becoming a highly competitive arena. disry brd Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Taking the biennial/triennial discussion even Melissa Chiu, Asia Society Museum further, I thank Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen, who has John Clark, University of Sydney Lynne Cooke, Dia Art Foundation guest edited five texts by well-known and emerging Okwui Enwezor, San Francisco Art Institute scholars who explore the specific histories and Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar & Curator Fan Di’an, National Art Museum of China current standing of Asian biennials and triennials. Fei Dawei, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Together, these texts embrace a pan-Asian Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh perspective and serve to begin the process Hou Hanru, San Francisco Art Institute Katie Hill, University of Westminster of identifying the role that Asian biennials and Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive triennials hold within the global context. Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic & Historian Sebastian Lopez, Institute of International Visual Arts Lu Jie, Independent Curator On a different note, Beijing did much to promote Charles Merewether, Critic & Curator Ni Tsaichin, Tunghai University an image of a stable and prosperous China during Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand the Olympics. It was thus compelling to see two Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic & Curator Wu Hung, University of Chicago exhibitions, one with work by Yang Shaobin and Pauline J. Yao, Independent Scholar the other with Li Yifan, that gave homage to the people who have contributed to this prosperity pbliser Art & Collection Group Ltd. but who have endured great sacrifice. These 6F. No.85, Section 1, two exhibitions, one of which had some of its Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 videos shut down by the authorities, brought to Phone: (886)2.2560.2220; light the social and medical consequences for Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 the labourers who are at the front line of China’s E-mail: [email protected] progress but who are too often disregarded for desin nd prdtin Leap Creative Group the contributions they make. retie diretr Raymond Mah rt Diretr Gavin Chow Yishu 30 also presents three texts discussing desiner Philip Wong China’s art during the Cultural Revolution. Two focus on the ground-breaking exhibition, Art webster Website ARTCO, Taipei and China’s Revolution, held at Asia Society printin Chong-yuan Image Ltd., Taipei in New York, while the other ventures into the issn - little-explored territory of ethnic diversity as it was presented and promoted in posters from the Cultural Revolution. Yishu is published bi-monthly in Taipei, Taiwan, and edited in Vancouver, Canada. The publishing dates are January, March, May, July, September, and November. Keith Wallace All subscription, advertising, and submission inquiries may be sent to: Yishu Office 200–1311 Howe Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 2P3 Phone: 1.604.649.8187; Fax: 1.604.591.6392 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.yishujournal.com YISHU EDITIONS Subscription rates: Now available. Four limited edition prints 1 year (six issues): $84 USD (includes $24 for airmail postage); of artwork by some of the most important in Asia $78 USD (includes $18 for airmail postage). 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In 2000–03 he taught art at Chaohu Asian Art & Archaeology. Among his books are College, Anhui province. After his postgraduate Modern Asian Art (Sydney: Craftsman House and studies in the Art History Department of the Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1998), Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2006, he taught the co-edited Eye of the Beholder (Sydney: Wild at the Institute of Movie & Television Media Peony, 2006), Modernities Compared: Chinese and and Communications, Chongqing Normal Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s (Sydney: Power University. Meanwhile, with others he created Publications, forthcoming 2009), and Modernities H2 Art Space at the Chongqing 501 Art Base. In of Chinese Art (in submission, 2008). From 2004 2007, he was appointed Academic Director of to 2006 he worked on the new biennales in Asia the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. and drafted a book, Biennales and Contemporary His articles have appeared in many Chinese art Asian Art: Histories of the Asian “New,” which is magazines and catalogues. His recent curatorial also in submission. From 2008 to 2012 he will work includes Notes of Conception: A Local be working on a new comparative study of “The Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Painting at Asian Modern” under an Australian Research the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art. Council Professorial Fellowship. Hank Bull is an artist based in Vancouver. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is Director Emeritus of He has been a member of the Western Front the Museum Villa Stück in Munich (1992–2007). Society, an artist-run centre, since 1973.