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Aspects of the ephemeral in contemporary art and cultural practice in China Ephemera workshop, Rice University Chao Center for Chinese Studies. Dr. Katie Hill OCCA – Office of Contemporary Chinese Art, Oxford, UK Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and New York.
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Aspects of the ephemeral in contemporary art and cultural practice in ChinaEphemera workshop, Rice UniversityChao Center for Chinese Studies Dr. Katie Hill OCCA – Office of Contemporary Chinese Art, Oxford, UK Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and New York
QiuZhijie, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Reactivation, Power Station of Art,Shanghai
Wu Shanzhuan (b.1956) Big Business -Selling Prawns. Installation, blackboard, chalk, prawns National Art Gallery, Beijing, 1989
Books translated and published in the 1980s in China including Chan Buddhist texts and translations of Western authors such as Wittgenstein, Beckett, Ionesco, Kant and Sartre, to name a few
Scenes of the Burning Event (destroying works of art outside the Xiamen Art Museum)by the Xiamen Dada group, 1986
Sheng Qi (b.1965) and others, Concept 21 on Great Wall. Performance, 1986
Xi Jianjun and ShengQi, Concept 21 – we don’t care if 3 x 7=21, 1987, Beijing University campus
‘China/Avant-garde’ exhibition National Gallery of China, Beijing, 1989
Duan Yingmei, Yingmei in Wonderland, with Susanne Resch, live performance installation, 22th june 2008 (Foto: jürgen bernhard kuck)
To add one meter to an anonymous mountain, 1995. Live performance with Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Ma Zongyin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin and Zhu Ming Duration approx. 20 minutes Photographer: Lu Nan
Mad For Real (Cai Yuan b.1956 and JJ Xi b. 1962)Soya Sauce Ketchup Fight, University of Essex 19th January, 2009Perspex box, bottles of soya sauce and ketchup
Soya Sauce Ketchup Fight, Performance, Liverpool Biennale, 2002
Mad For Real, Monkey King Plays Havoc in the Heavenly Kingdom, British Museum, 2004
Alive, Alive-O! (HuozheHuozhe) 2004 Morecambe Bay, LancashireThis memorial project was a tribute to the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned at Morecambe Bay in February 2004. It was an exploration of the dark underbelly of globalisation in the context of Britain and China. The artists inscribed the word alive, alive oh! in the sand, which was subsequently swept away by the incoming tide.
Song Dong , Waste Not, 2005-2012 (BTAP, Beijing) - ongoingInstallation, 10,000 household objectsBarbican Art Gallery, London, Feb-June, 2012
Ai Weiwei, Nian 念 , 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVBCdkRTX0