This document discusses contemporary Chinese art and the social transformations occurring in China. It begins by looking at artists such as Zhang Dali who documented the demolition of old neighborhoods in Beijing. It then discusses how millions of rural migrants moved to Chinese cities, changing the urban landscape. Various artists such as Liu Bolin, Chen Qiulin, and Yang Yongliang have responded to these changes through their artworks. The document examines themes of utopia, dystopia, and how artists explore the tensions between tradition and modernity in today's China.
Li Xiaowei is a Fine Arts Professor from Fujian Normal University. I knew Mr. Li because I helped him curate his oil paintings at Fuzhou Art Of Nature Saloon in summer 2011. Mr. Li is a creative person. He likes to reflect his philosophical thoughts on different social phenomenons through narrative means of figurative descriptions. Mr. Li truly knows how an artist should behave because he never imitates any traditional norms but works hard to invent his own visual languages. He reflects the spirit of open-mindedness within the Fujianese art intellectuals.
Michael Andrew Law are Hong Kong-based artist that collaborate on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual.
While his work is deeply rooted in the Pop Cultural context , their work still attains a Classical significance.
Michael Andrew Law was born in British Hong Kong 1982. He studied Film and Fine Art in Hong Kong , and began his career as a children's book illustrator during the early 2000's. 2007 he received his first solo show exhibition at Tom Tramels Gallery, New York. His painting speak as much about conditions in Hong Kong as they do about the human condition universally.
A Term Paper about the phenomenon of artist-award schemes in Hong Kong art scene
* Feedback from Dr. Nick CHU Tai-sing after correcting my assignment:
A good reputation is not necessarily an original sin, right? One of the ways to launch successfully ones artistic career, as spelled out by Sarah Thornton, is to get an important award. All the policy related to art development in Hong Kong is elitist, in the sense that, like in sport development, there is no grass root planning. In Bourdieu's sense, there has been and is no desire to accumulate cultural capital for the society as a whole in Hong Kong. As such it will remain elitist, only a very few can make it big--in terms of reputation and money spinning. In general, reputation of an artist requires years to establish, as there are a lot of mechanism, institutional assessment, as well as trial by time. Yet the market in Hong Kong and China is such that this trial by time like long term investment is taken over by short term speculation and even money laundry.
Li Xiaowei is a Fine Arts Professor from Fujian Normal University. I knew Mr. Li because I helped him curate his oil paintings at Fuzhou Art Of Nature Saloon in summer 2011. Mr. Li is a creative person. He likes to reflect his philosophical thoughts on different social phenomenons through narrative means of figurative descriptions. Mr. Li truly knows how an artist should behave because he never imitates any traditional norms but works hard to invent his own visual languages. He reflects the spirit of open-mindedness within the Fujianese art intellectuals.
Michael Andrew Law are Hong Kong-based artist that collaborate on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual.
While his work is deeply rooted in the Pop Cultural context , their work still attains a Classical significance.
Michael Andrew Law was born in British Hong Kong 1982. He studied Film and Fine Art in Hong Kong , and began his career as a children's book illustrator during the early 2000's. 2007 he received his first solo show exhibition at Tom Tramels Gallery, New York. His painting speak as much about conditions in Hong Kong as they do about the human condition universally.
A Term Paper about the phenomenon of artist-award schemes in Hong Kong art scene
* Feedback from Dr. Nick CHU Tai-sing after correcting my assignment:
A good reputation is not necessarily an original sin, right? One of the ways to launch successfully ones artistic career, as spelled out by Sarah Thornton, is to get an important award. All the policy related to art development in Hong Kong is elitist, in the sense that, like in sport development, there is no grass root planning. In Bourdieu's sense, there has been and is no desire to accumulate cultural capital for the society as a whole in Hong Kong. As such it will remain elitist, only a very few can make it big--in terms of reputation and money spinning. In general, reputation of an artist requires years to establish, as there are a lot of mechanism, institutional assessment, as well as trial by time. Yet the market in Hong Kong and China is such that this trial by time like long term investment is taken over by short term speculation and even money laundry.
The social role of graffiti of protesters of 2019د. صبا الياسري
Artistic achievements over time have links to the human being and his
basic needs. Freedom and demanding rights are among the most
important human needs. What happened in Tahrir Square in the centre
of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, was a cry of freedom and an expression
of my opinion with drawings simulating events. On political and social
life, close to the Monument of Freedom, youthful cartoons were
embodied in a peaceful manner that raises controversy through artistic
expressions in contemporary formulations that challenge reality. As a
result of repression and fear of losing documenting these drawings, the
study attempted to document this special period in the life of Iraq,
which demonstrated the culture of this generation and their awareness
of their rights and duties towards the homeland. It is evident in the
graffiti there is a cultural and artistic awareness and a clear interest in
the cultural heritage. Through analysing the models, there is a focus
on basic concepts indicating the maturity of the demonstrators and
their awareness by emphasizing the martyr through the icon of the
revolution (Safaa al-Saray) and the white shirt to denote peace and the
student majority for the revolution.The emergence of marginalized or
poor strata of society in the common struggle.
Key words: The social role, graphical drawings, Revolution, October 2019
The social role of graffiti of protesters of 2019د. صبا الياسري
Artistic achievements over time have links to the human being and his
basic needs. Freedom and demanding rights are among the most
important human needs. What happened in Tahrir Square in the centre
of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, was a cry of freedom and an expression
of my opinion with drawings simulating events. On political and social
life, close to the Monument of Freedom, youthful cartoons were
embodied in a peaceful manner that raises controversy through artistic
expressions in contemporary formulations that challenge reality. As a
result of repression and fear of losing documenting these drawings, the
study attempted to document this special period in the life of Iraq,
which demonstrated the culture of this generation and their awareness
of their rights and duties towards the homeland. It is evident in the
graffiti there is a cultural and artistic awareness and a clear interest in
the cultural heritage. Through analysing the models, there is a focus
on basic concepts indicating the maturity of the demonstrators and
their awareness by emphasizing the martyr through the icon of the
revolution (Safaa al-Saray) and the white shirt to denote peace and the
student majority for the revolution.The emergence of marginalized or
poor strata of society in the common struggle.
Key words: The social role, graphical drawings, Revolution, October 2019
The Kowloon Walled City Series is based on an interdisciplinary research on graphic art like experimental linear drawing, photography such as Greg Girard's documentation, Chinese calligraphic references such as Yan Zhengqing's stele scripts, the journal articles about anarchic urbanism, and the neo-figurative painting styles recommended by Prof. Lui Chun Kwong. The CUHK Fine Arts MAFA Graduation Show will be grandly opened at CUHK Art Museum on 10 July, Sunday. The Kowloon Walled City will be displayed by seperating two generalized streams as "Anarchic Urbanism" session and "Homecoming Dad" session, so that the visitors can perceive how I am eager to enjoy the nourishments of love within a pale mode of retreated livelihood.
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Kurgan is a russian expatriate that is secretly in love with Sonia Contado. Henry is a british soldier that took refuge in Merindol Colony in 2137ad. He is the lover of Sonia Contado.
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thGAP - Transgenic Human Germline Alternatives Project, presents an evening of input lectures, discussions and a performative workshop on artistic interventions for future scenarios of human genetic and inheritable modifications.
To begin our lecturers, Marc Dusseiller aka "dusjagr" and Rodrigo Martin Iglesias, will give an overview of their transdisciplinary practices, including the history of hackteria, a global network for sharing knowledge to involve artists in hands-on and Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) working with the lifesciences, and reflections on future scenarios from the 8-bit computer games of the 80ies to current real-world endeavous of genetically modifiying the human species.
We will then follow up with discussions and hands-on experiments on working with embryos, ovums, gametes, genetic materials from code to slime, in a creative and playful workshop setup, where all paticipant can collaborate on artistic interventions into the germline of a post-human future.
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This are the interiors of the Merindol Colony in 2137ad after the Climate Change Collapse and the Apocalipse Wars. Merindol is a small Colony in the Italian Alps where there are around 4000 humans. The Colony values mainly around meritocracy and selection by effort.
5. In 2012 China was officially declared more urban than rural.
By 2014 more than two hundred and fifty million rural
workers had moved to the cities – the largest migration in
human history…
11. China’s transformation…
“THE JOURNEY FROM FARM TO CITY IS THE
STORY OF CHINA’S TRANSFORMATION
FROM A POOR AND BACKWARD COUNTRY
TO A GLOBAL ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER.”
TOM MILLER, CHINA’S URBAN BILLION
23. Utopia/Dystopia: Case Studies in
Contemporary Chinese art practices
Featured Artists
Zhang Dali
Liu Bolin
Chen Qiulin
Yao Lu
Chen Jiagang
Xu Bing
Bu Hua
Song Dong
Gao Rong
Cao Fei
And Yang Yongliang
25. Zhang Dali - Demolition and dialogue, Chaoyangmenwai avenue,
Beijing (Number 50), 1998, 23.3 x 35 cm, 1/10
26. Zhang Dali documented
the destruction of old
Beijing, with the forced
removal of people from
their homes and the
demolition of traditional
neighbourhoods in the
years leading up to the
2008 Beijing Olympics
27. On his return from Italy
(where he had fled after
Tiananmen) in 1995,
Zhang Dali began this
series of site-specific
graffiti works in areas
identified for
demolition, featuring his
self-portrait bald head
in profile, either spray-
painted or cut into the
walls of derelict
abandoned sites.
28. By intervening in derelict urban spaces, Zhang reclaims them
temporarily from their involvement in China’s rapid and dramatic
program of modernisation, and also draws attention to “certain
contrasts between different political identities and social
spaces.” (Art historian Wu Hung)
He draws attention to the contrast between the government’s
vision of progressive social change and a “more negative public
sense of the ruination of China’s established urban spaces and
their associated communities.” (Art and culture theorist Paul
Gladston, in ‘Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History’)
Local as opposed to global?
An interventionist art practice?
29.
30. According to the artist, immigrant workers who have
traveled from the rural areas all over China to earn a living
in construction sites in Chinese cities, are the most
important members of the Chinese race, who are shaping
our physical reality. Yet, they are the faceless crowd who
live at the bottom of our society. To cast them in resin is a
way to recognize their existence and contribution as well as
to capture a fast-changing point of time in the Chinese
society. From 2003 to 2005, Zhang has portrayed 100
immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various
postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature
and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each
of their bodies. They are often hung upside down,
indicating the uncertainty of their life and their
powerlessness in changing their own fates. (Source: Saatchi
Gallery)
40. Chen Jiagang: “When the path to realising the dream of becoming
a great nation turns into a pyramid scheme, then the resulting
world will consist of one smog city after another.”
47. “I went back to Chongqing, but the whole city, as well as the
Three Gorges region and downstream Hubei Province, was
cloaked in perpetual smog…Smog has become the marker of the
city’s existence, and within that smog, people are unable to make
any real distinctions, and this became my new motivation. I set
out to capture that society in the smog, to explore how it came
about and its symbolic meaning.” (Chen Jiagang)
49. Re-imagining an ancient Chinese motif, Xu offers a view of the “new China” and the
labour conditions that support its massive commercial and spatial development
51. Now, in the cathedral of St John the Divine, in New York, it
has taken on new meanings and a greater significance
52. The birds are suspended in the air and installed with concealed lighting.
At dusk, as the natural light begins to dim, the birds begin to be visibly
illuminated from within. At a fixed point during the evening, the lights of
the surrounding environment and the lights within the birds suddenly go
dark and small LEDs displayed on the surface of the birds light up. At this
point, Phoenix, constructed from ready-made materials, becomes the
image of a distant, Phoenix-like constellation. The use of waste materials
to built the sculpture deals with the idea of recycling, one of the most
contemporary concepts in the context of sustainable economy.
http://www.artforworldexpo.com/InitialProject/works_50_XuBing.html
60. Song Dong
Eating the City
The installation,
Eating the City, is an
exploration of the
dramatic growth of
cities, particular in
Asia, and the resulting
sameness. "In the
future travelling will
be an ancient
tradition. I'm from
Beijing which today
feels no different to
Shanghai or Hong
Kong," Song Dong
says.
61. Gao Rong
“I am a sculptor
who uses
embroidery, not an
embroiderer!”
62.
63.
64.
65. Gao Rong. What Type of
Car Can a Motor-Tricycle
be Exchanged For?,
2013; embroidery, cloth,
wooden board, iron
shelf, leather, and
plastic; 70 7/8 x 76 3/4 x
37 3/8 in. (180 x 195 x 95
cm). Image courtesy the
Artist.
73. Zombies in Beijing….
“Yes, we are living in end times. But the “end of time” cannot be measured by
time, or by latitude and longitude. “It” is heading towards end and death. We
“perceive” the climate changes before the whole system crashes, but we are
unable to describe the feeling. Except for this, there are no anthropological,
phenomenological, or statistical methods to show that we are on the way to
apocalypse. Just like a volcanic eruption, an apocalypse is unpredictable. The
end also means the beginning of something else.”
76. What are we connecting?
Investigations of art and artists
Generating authentic engagement
Using the art of the Asia Pacific region
Differentiation
Building Literacy
Authentic models of practice
Connecting to the artworld
Preparation for THAT exam
78. Step by Step
Start with the ‘hook’ for your students –
engaging, fascinating contemporary
artworks that will intrigue them
Use authentic sources such as the Venice
Biennale (Cao Fei and Xu Bing selected for
2015!) The MCA, White Rabbit Gallery, The
Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA, regional
galleries – and social media!
Try Ocula - http://ocula.com/
79.
80. Make a case study
One artist, or a pair of artists
A group of artists
A gallery or exhibition – White
Rabbit? APT at QAGOMA?
A journal – Artist Profile, Art &
Australia
A ‘hot topic’!
81. Case studies and readings about
contemporary Chinese artists
My website: www.teachingchineseart.com
Thank you / Xie Xie! / 谢谢
