Full Description
This is the first edited collection to critically address in its entirety questions related to the displaying of Chinese contemporary art. It includes chapters by scholars and cultural workers from diverse backgrounds involved in the interpretation of artistic as well as curatorial discourses and practices. Each of those chapters gives a detailed account of a particular, socio-culturally informed, approach to the making and showing of Chinese art - including in relation to queer identities, transculturality, the use of social media, artivism, social engagement, institutional critique, and neo-Confucian aesthetics. Together they present a vital intervention with established curatorship amidst the intensely interconnected and increasingly multi-polar cultural conditionalities of early 21st-century contemporaneity.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Aestheticized Display in China's Three Cosmological Realms.- Chapter 3: Performing Artivism: Social Engaged Queer Art in China.- Chapter 4: Curating Global Contemporary Chinese-Ink Art: Zheng Chongbin's Pictorial and Digital Ink Works in Western Art Institutional Contexts.- Chapter 5: Thinking (and Practice) (In-/)Outside the (Yellow) Box: toward the displaying of visual-cultural poly/cacophony.- Chapter 6: Pharmakon - socially engaged art and online hybrid display in Hong Kong.- Chapter 7: Curating Human Togetherness: Artivism and the Remaking of People and Place in Mainland China.- Chapter 8: Beyond Existing Approaches to the Displaying of Chinese Art: Three Case Studies.
