NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 V OLUME 16, NUMBER 6 INSI DE Special Issue: The Guggenheim Museum and New York University Emerging Scholars Symposium Art and China after 1989: New Perspectives US$12.00 NT$350.00 P R INTED IN TAIWAN Vol. 16 No. 6 1 ARTIST Feng Mo Born in 1969, Feng Mo is currently a member of the Sichuan Branch of China Artists Association and the Chengdu Artists Association. He is Director of Jingdezhen ArtCHINA Centre, China. He studied ink painting from esteemed artists Li Yelin and Qin Tianzhu, and calligraphy from notable artist Wang Kang Ning. V E N U E Jingdezhen ArtCHINA Centre North Canton Apartment no. 401 Guangchang North Road, Zhushan District, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China Jingdezhen ArtCHINA Centre’s CONTACT mandate is to provide a creative venue Michael Zhang for the promotion of ceramic art and to Tel: 778-319-9921 foster innovative approach as well as Wechat: 258026222 respect for tradition. Email: [email protected] 14 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 CONTENTS 36 4 Editor’s Note 6 Contributors 9 Introduction: Art and China after 1989: New Perspectives Alexandra Munroe and Philip Tinari 11 China in/and/is the World Lily Chumley 14 Forging a New Dialogue: Public Art in 1990s China 43 Vivian Y. Li 27 A New Look at Chine demain pour hier Lesley Ma 36 Doubled Meanings: Reading Wang Gongxin's The Sky of Brooklyn—Digging a Hole in China Katherine Grube 43 Conceptual Photography as History: Fragmentation, Dislocation, and the Historical Imaginary in China, 1988–1998 James Poborsa 55 Black, White, and Grey: Ai Weiwei in Beijing, 1993– 55 1997 Stephanie Tung 65 Branching Paths to Self-Liberation Lu Mingjun 77 Where There Are No Art Circles: The Long March Project and New Geographies of Chinese Contemporary Art Timothy Shea 84 Locality in Flux: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla’s Amphibious (Login-Logout) and Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia 77 Wu Yao 92 Documenting Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Art During the 1980s and 1990s Anthony Yung 100 Keynote: The Plight of Chinese Art in the Post-Olympic Era Pi Li 109 Chinese Name Index Cover: Qiu Zhijie, Left/Right, 2002, performance on Luding Bridge, Long March—A Walking Display. Courtesy of the artist and Long 84 March Space, Beijing. We thank JNBY and Lin Li, Cc Foundation and David Chau, Yin Qing, Chen Ping, 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. Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art PRESIDENT Katy Hsiu-chih Chien LEGAL COUNSEL Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C. C. Liu Yishu 83 marks our fourth collaboration FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian New York, and its Samsung Senior EDITORS Julie Grundvig Curator, Asian Art, and Senior Advisor, Kate Steinmann Chunyee Li Global Arts, Alexandra Munroe. As part of CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde these collaborations, Yishu has published WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li presentations given by leading scholars ADVERTISING Sen Wong Michelle Hsieh at the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council. These meetings and discussions are ADVISORY BOARD Judy Andrews, Ohio State University an important component in the development Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Guggenheim’s Asian art programming John Clark, University of Sydney Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and in opening up ideas for us all about what Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator constitutes contemporary Asian art. Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator This special issue of Yishu takes a somewhat Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome different turn in that it is publishing papers Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop prepared by emerging scholars who were Katie Hill, University of Westminster Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive invited by the Guggenheim Museum and Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian New York University to participate in the Sebastian Lopez, Critic and Curator Lu Jie, Long March Space symposium Art and China after 1989: New Charles Merewether, Critic and Curator Perspectives. Taking place in September Apinan Poshyananda, Ministry of Culture, Thailand Philip Tinari, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art 2016, it served as a prelude to the ambitious Chia Chi Jason Wang, Independent Critic and Curator exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater Wu Hung, University of Chicago Pauline J. Yao, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District of the World, which opened on October 6, 2017, and includes the work of seventy-one ART & COLLECTION GROUP LTD. 6F. No. 85, Section 1, Chungshan N. Road, Taipei, Taiwan 104 artists and groups. Phone: (886)2.2560.2220 Fax: (886)2.2542.0631 The essays included in Yishu 83 take E-mail: [email protected] 1989 and its globally significant events— VICE GENERAL MANAGER Jenny Liu MARKETING MANAGER Joyce Lin the China Avant-Garde exhibition, CIRCULATION EXECUTIVE Perry Hsu the Tian’anmen Square incidents, the Yishu is produced bi-monthly in Vancouver, Canada, and published transformation of the Soviet Union and the in Taipei, Taiwan. 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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16卷第6期‧2017年11–12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) 6 作者小傳 史楷迪 (Kate Steinmann) 黎俊儀 網站編輯： 黎俊儀 9 前言─1989年後的藝術與中國：新視野 行 政： 藍立杉 (Larisa Broyde) 孟璐（Alexandra Munroe ）和田霏宇 廣 告： 謝盈盈 （Philip Tinari） 黃晨 中國在世界/中國即世界 顧 問： 王嘉驥 11 田霏宇 (Philip Tinari) Lily Chumley 安雅蘭 (Judy Andrews) 巫 鴻 形成新的對話：中國九十年代公共雕塑 林似竹 (Britta Erickson) 14 范迪安 李燕 招穎思 (Melissa Chiu) 洛柿田 (Sebastian Lopez) 27 再看「中國明天」 胡 昉 侯瀚如 馬唯中 (Lesley Ma) 徐文玠 (Claire Hsu) 姜苦樂 (John Clark) 36 雙重意義：讀王功新的《布魯克林的 姚嘉善 (Pauline J. 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