Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Timebased Art

From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. This book engages with artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in the post-Deng era. The book, itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium, contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, the author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, this book provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.

Year

2013

Language

English

Publisher

Seagull Books

Editions

1

Pages

486

ISBN

9780857420879

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