MARCH/A P R I L 2 0 1 5 VOLUM E 14, NUM BER 2 INSI DE Panel Discussion: Going to the Country Why Do We Still Need Museums? 10th Shanghai Biennale Artist Features: FX Harnoso, Tintin Wulia, Wanxin Zhang Exhibitions: San Francisco, Ithica, Manchester US$12.00 NT$350.00 P R INTED IN TAIWAN 6 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2, MARCH/APRIL 2015 CONTENTS 2 Editor’s Note 37 4 Contributors 6 Going to the Country: Reconsidering Chinese Art Practices and Participation in the Rural Context Orianna Cacchione and Mia Yu 28 The Paradoxes of Autonomy: A Site of Critique Nikita Yingqian Cai 66 37 Why Do We Still Need Museums? An Interview with Hou Hanru, Artistic Director of MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome Yu Hsiao Hwei 51 Pursuing Subjectivity: The 10th Shanghai Biennale—Social Factory Julie Chun 66 Expressions of Chinese Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Indonesian 82 Art: FX Harsono and Tintin Wulia Lisa Catt 82 New Boundaries of Contemporary Art from Taiwan Yu-chieh Li 95 Against Rigour in Art: Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? Brian Karl 106 106 Wanxin Zhang: Totem Erica Mohar 112 Relics, Memory, and Nostalgia in Harmonious Society Alexandra Lily Mitchell 121 Chinese Name Index 112 Cover: Huang Yongping, Bâton de Serpent, 2014, aluminum. Photo: Musacchio and Lanniello. Courtesy of the artist, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, and Fondazione MAXXI, Rome. We thank JNBY Art Projects, D3E Art Limited, Chen Ping, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Li, and Stephanie Holmquist and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. Vol. 14 No. 2 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 FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum Museums and cultural institutions are subjects Yishu has explored in past issues. The first three EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian texts in Yishu 67 continue that exploration with a EDITORS Julie Grundvig panel discussion organized by Orianna Cacchione Kate Steinmann Chunyee Li and Mia Yu on projects that have taken place in EDITORS (CHINESE VERSION) Yu Hsiao Hwei non-urban contexts, a reflection by Nikita Yingqian Chen Ping Cai on institutional critique within mainland China, Guo Yanlong and an interview with Hou Hanru by Yu Hsiao Hwei CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde that provides one of the most succinct insights into WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li his curatorial practice as well as his perspective ADVISORY BOARD on the relevance of museums in terms of their Judy Andrews, Ohio State University Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden publicness. John Clark, University of Sydney Lynne Cooke, Museo Reina Sofia The Shanghai Biennale, now in its tenth year Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator and in its second manifestation at the massive Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts Shanghai Power Station, is examined by Julie Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh Chun not only with respect to the curatorial Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome premise and the artwork, but also, how this major Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Asian event and the institution that supports it Katie Hill, University of Westminster Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive might be wanting in its publicness. Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator Lu Jie, Long March Space Lisa Catt discusses two artists, FX Harsono Charles Merewether, Director, ICA Singapore and Tintin Wulia, whose work addresses the Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand troubled historical context of people of Chinese Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator descent in Indonesia, an area within the vast Wu Hung, University of Chicago Chinese diaspora that until recently has been little Pauline J. Yao, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District researched. Yu-Chieh Li reviews an exhibition PUBLISHER Art & Collection Group Ltd. at Cornell University, one of the few group 6F. No. 85, Section 1, Chungshan N. 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DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Leap Creative Group CREATIVE DIRECTOR Raymond Mah ART DIRECTOR Gavin Chow DESIGNER Philip Wong Keith Wallace 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. 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14卷第2期‧2015年3–4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) 編 輯： 顧珠妮 (Julie Grundvig) 4 作者小傳 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 黎俊儀 6 到農村去！—鄉村語境中的中國 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 當代藝術實踐與參與 中文編輯： 余小蕙 小歐 (Orianna Cacchione)∕于渺 陳 萍 郭彥龍 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 28 自治的悖論：一個批判的場域 蔡影茜 顧 問： 王嘉驥 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) 37 我們為什麼還需要美術館？ 巫 鴻 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 訪談羅馬二十一世紀美術館（MAXXI） 范迪安 藝術總監侯瀚如 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 余小蕙 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 胡 昉 侯瀚如 51 觀者的主體性：評第十屆上海雙年展— 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 「社會工廠」 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. 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Her final Art Institute of Chicago. She is also completing research project explored expressions of her dissertation at the University of California, Chinese identity in contemporary Indonesian San Diego. Her current research analyzes the art. During her studies, Catt worked as an globalization of contemporary Chinese art assistant curator at the National Museum through the translation and circulation of of Australia and curatorial intern at the foreign art history in China after the Cultural National Gallery of Australia. Currently she is Revolution. Her writing has been published working at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. in The Journal of Art Historiography, Yishu, and FlashArt. Julie Chun is an independent art historian and lecturer who has been based in Shanghai Nikita Yingqian Cai lives and works in since 2011. She currently serves as the Art Guangzhou and is currently curator at Convener of the Royal Asiatic Society, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou. China, where she delivers monthly lectures The exhibitions she has curated there include at museums and galleries to widen public A Museum That is Not (2011), Jiang Zhi: If understanding of artistic objects, past and This is a Man (2012), and You Can only Think present. She holds an M.A. in art history about Something if You Think of Something from San Jose State University and B.A. in Else (2014); she is also editing a series of economics from the University of California publications based on the annual seminar at the at Irvine.