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The purpose of this page is to give a brief introduction on some places or subjects on which we often receive questions. The aim is to be informative rather than thorough.
We leave the pleasure of further research to you.
In case you have information of which you feel it might be interesting to add to this site, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 
 

Modern Chinese Art - general-
'Beijing standing. The art of urban guerrilla tactics' article on www.artlog.nl (see "links - art research & networks"), May 2003

   
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Dashanzi Cultural district
China Internet Information Center (China.org), quoting from China Daily April 23, 2003
Sohu.com (Chinadaily), BY Xiao Changyan, Updated:2004-07-05
'Art in America' 06-07/2004
by Jonathan Napack
'798: Beijing’s Art Community - A discarded Soviet-era industrial complex, now housing Beijing’s trendiest artists, is in danger of foreclosure' by Tang Yuankai, in Beijing Review
Dashanzi on 'e-paranoids' encyclopedia website ; extensive and very complete article on Dashanzi art district

David Spalding, San Francisco-based critic and teacher of contemporary art and critical theory at the California College of the Arts and Mills College, on Beijing’s art district

 
 

Dashanzi First International Art festival 'Radiance and Resonance / Signals of Time' from 24.04.2004 till 23.05.2004
'Beijing Portal', 22.03.2004
'That's Beijing', May 2004
'Asia Art Archive'
'Beijing This Month' 01.05.2004
'Art in America'

   
 

Shanghai art scene
'Letter from Shanghai', by Jonathan Napack, American Art critic in Artnet.com

   
 

Chinese avant garde :
'Is Chinese art kicking butt ... or kissing it?', Tuesday November 9, 2004, The Guardian
'Place of Culture: Neocolonialism, Commercialization and Aesthetics in Post-Tiananmen Avant-Garde Art'; by Julia Zhang, Yale University, 06.10. 2004
'The avant-garde art goes too far?' China daily 02.08.2004

'Precarious paths on the mainland - art in China - Report From Beijing', Art in America, March, 1994 by Lynn MacRitchie
'China-Avantgarde'; article on China-avantgarde.com by Karen Smith (see 'Persons')
'China's avant-garde artists still shunned by local collectors' by AFP/Peter Harmsen 25.09.2003 on ThingsAsian website
'Chinese Dissident Art' Transcript of radio interview with Karen Smith, 04.03.2003 on 'Common Ground' radio programme
'The academy strikes back: last fall, as official taste reigned at major international surveys in Beijing and Pingyao, avant-garde artists responded with spunky alternative shows'; Art in America, June-July, 2004 by Richard Vine

'China displays new tolerance for abrasive, urban art' By Robert Marquand, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 26.09.2001
'The Avant-Garde Has Its Moment of Glory' by FRANCESCA DAL LAGO in Time Asia 27.09.1999

'Children of Mao and Coca-Cola - avant-garde art in China', Art in America, March, 1999 by Eleanor Heartney

   
 

' Gaudy Art '
Introduction of Xu Yihui on "Chinese Contemporary" website
'Imitation starts at the other end of awareness' article by Gao Yue on the artist Wang Qingsong's website
'The Ideal Standard', article on ShangArt website, by Pi Li, 1999
'Luo Brothers New Work' ; announcement of new show in Courtyard gallery Dec 14 - Feb 28, 2004

   
 

Performance art in China
'The body east: the proliferation of performance and body art in Asia', on the exhibition at the Queens Museum - Import/Export in Art in America, April, 2002 by Eleanor Heartney
'Performing bodies: Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, and performance art in China' - Interview in Art Journal, Summer, 1999 by Qian Zhijian

   
 

Shock art - extreme art in China
'Baby-eating art show sparks upset', BBC News, 03.01.2003 (on 'Beijing Swings program aired on BBC)
'Beijing Swings' Is this art?, 02.01.2003, comments of viewers

 
 

' Fuck Off ' - notorious exhibition wich ran along the Shanghai Biennale from 01 till 07.10.2000 (participating artists : see 'Eastlink gallery website'
'collected articles Shanghai Biennale 2000' by david barrett, November 2000 (day 4)
'The underground biennial' By j.napack in theartnewspaper.com

   
 

Long March Foundation : http://longmarchfoundation.org/english/homepage.htm
- quote website - This project is organized by the Long March Foundation, New York,and The 25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing with the cooperation of local cultural institutions along the route of China's historical Long March. Its aim is to take both contemporary Chinese and international art to a sector of the Chinese public that is rarely, perhaps never, exposed to such work. In this respect, this is the first such project in China's history. Specifically, we will bring art to those people who live in communities along the route of Mao Zedong's historic Long March. Mao's 'March' symbolized the deliverance of the Communist ideal to the Chinese proletariat. It is with this symbolism in mind that we now choose to march contemporary art out to China's peripheral population. -unquote-

 
 

Mao Zedong in Chinese Contemporary art
'Art Journal', Summer 1999, by Francesca Dal Lago

 
   
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Chinese Photography
'Chinese Photography: Beyond Stereotypes' by Barbara Pollack, Art News Online, February 2004