M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 8 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 INSIDE Artist Features: Yang Jiechang, Xu Bing When Contemporary Art Practices Meet Ethnographic Research in Chinese Sociery Sourthern Port of Call: Guangzhou’s Current Galleries Reviews: 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture, Spectrosynthesis, 5th Chengdu Up-On International Live Art Festival US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRINTED IN TAIWAN 6 Vol. 17 No. 2 12 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2, MARCH/APRIL 2018 CONTENTS 29 8 Editor’s Note 10 Contributors 12 Yang Jiechang: 100 Layers of Ink, 100 Layers of Action Susanna Ferrell and Britta Erickson 29 The Doubleness of Sight/Site: Xu Bing’s Phoenix as an Intended Public Art Project 46 Junjie Jiang 46 Art, Making Cities: The Existence and Future of Urban Villages Yu Hsiao Hwei 61 When Contemporary Art Practices Meet Ethnographic Research in Chinese Society Yuling Zhong 76 Southern Port of Call: Guangzhou’s Current Galleries 61 Julie Chun 85 Inside/Outside—Black & White: 5th Chengdu Up-On International Live Art Festival Sophia Kidd 99 Spectrosynthesis: Incomplete Rainbow? Shih-yu Hsu 104 Chinese Name Index 85 99 Cover: Wang Yanxin, Hidden, 2017, performance, 20 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Up-On, Chengdu. Vol. 17 No. 2 7 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 85 opens with an essay by Susanna Ferrell FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum and Britta Erickson on the early work of Yang EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace Jiechang, one of contemporary Chinese art’s MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian EDITORS Julie Grundvig most important artists and among the first to Kate Steinmann exhibit outside of China. The multi-year series of Chunyee Li CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde nearly all-black paintings, titled 100 Layers of Ink, WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li embodies a complex deliberation of the artist’s ADVERTISING Sen Wong Michelle Hsieh social, political, and spiritual life journey. Junjie Jiang writes about Xu Bing, who, since the 1980s INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL Junjun Liu also has made an instrumental contribution to Chris Mao contemporary Chinese art. Her essay focuses Bing Yang Vivian Jianhui Zhang on Xu Bing’s major public art project Phoenix, in which she addresses the tension between his ADVISORY BOARD Judy Andrews, Ohio State University dependence as an artist upon both capital and Melissa Chiu, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden the labour of those who fabricated his artwork, John Clark, University of Sydney Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. as well as the workers whose labour also drives Okwui Enwezor, Critic and Curator China's urban development. Britta Erickson, Independent Scholar and Curator Fan Di’an, Central Academy of Fine Arts Fei Dawei, Independent Critic and Curator This idea of social consciousness is extended Gao Minglu, University of Pittsburgh in essays by Yu Hsiao Hwei on the 7th Bi-City Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome Hu Fang, Vitamin Creative Space and the shop Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, Katie Hill, University of Westminster and by Yuling Zhong on recent ethnographic Claire Hsu, Asia Art Archive Martina Köppel-Yang, Independent Critic and Historian practices within the art making process. 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She is also on the boards of lecturer who has been based in Shanghai since Three Shadows Photography Art Centre 2011. She serves as the Art Convener of the (Beijing), Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai, where Chinese Art, and ArtAsiaPacific. In 2006 she delivers monthly lectures at museums and she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to galleries to widen the public’s understanding of conduct research in Beijing on the Chinese artistic objects, past and present. She lectures contemporary art market. Since 2013 she has frequently on art for the various foreign been Artistic Director at INKStudio, a gallery Consulate General offices in Shanghai and as an based in Beijing. adjunct for the Alliance for Global Education at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Susanna Ferrell is a scholar of contemporary She is a regular contributor to Yishu Journal of art history living and working in Los Angeles, Contemporary Chinese Art and Honorary Editor California. She received her B.A. in Art of the Journal Royal Asiatic Society, one of the History and Fine Art from Scripps College in longest running English-language publications 2015, with theses on the art of Yayoi Kusama on Chinese Studies, founded in 1858. and obsessive compulsive disorder, and the exhibiting of Chinese contemporary ink Britta Erickson, Ph.D., is an independent art in major Western institutions.