Tag: Contemporary Art
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Cao Fei: Urban Legend
Writing about the medium promiscuous practice of Cao Fei in this special feature commissioned for Kaleidoscope in anticipation of her MoMA PS1 retrospective. http://kaleidoscope.media/cao-fei-essay New orders are born, so is new, strange wisdom —China Tracy, RMB City Manifesto Legend has it that leading up to the International Center of Photography’s triennial in 2009, curators at…
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双体/Artforum Book Review of Between State and Market: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Post Mao Era

《国家与市场之间:后毛时代的中国当代艺术》(Between State and Market: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Post-Mao Era, 2014)实际探讨的是1978至1993年之间中国当代艺术体制从无到(算是)有的建立史。
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海上列传–Artforum Scene and Herd on Venice Biennial 2015 Opening Week
“历史并不是靠一点点被挖掘还原的,而是排山倒海向我们碾压而来。”第56届威尼斯双年展德国馆参展艺术家黑特·史德耶尔(Hito Steyerl)在开幕期间某晚宴上如是说。
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Essay on Lu Yang for the 56th Venice Biennial China Pavillion catalogue

Lu Yang: Anatomy of the Idols “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” –Alan Turing When Walter Benjamin wrote about the aura of the work of art, he most certainly didn’t mean that it could be a physical, detachable thing, but of elusive nature, like divinity.
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Lu Yang Arcade Reviews
Artforum: http://artforum.com.cn/archive/search=%E7%8E%8B%E8%BE%9B/7138
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THE BANK SHOW REVIEWS
Art Agenda: http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/%E2%80%9Cthe-bank-show-vive-le-capital%E2%80%9D/
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THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current order of capitalism. – Fredric Jameson
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黯然销魂不唯语境/Translating Feminism
published on Artforum.com.cn on 2014.12.03, http://artforum.com.cn/slant/7247# 碧昂斯在MTV音乐录影带大奖上的表演,2014年8月24日。 图片:New Statesman
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Cao Fei on La Town for Artforum 500 words
曹斐近日在纽约Lombard Freid画廊展出新作《La Town》,40余分钟的定格拍摄影片全部由微缩人物与场景组成。在这个与现实比例为1:87的世界里,艺术家试图描摹一座城市的过往与命运。它反复在虫洞中迁徙至其他时空,逃避着记忆的捕捉,后在当代博物馆展览柜中被封存、展出、遗忘。