I try, always try, to create a space where I can probe my identities vis-à-vis the world around me. Using a wide range of mediums, I often attempt to explore the world of illusion against a background of memory, a memory nearly always based on reality. By sensing and exposing a metaphorical world that hides […]

Anything but a manifestation of “collective subconsciousness,” the seven works of Yin Xiu-Zhen in Beijing Commune could almost be seen as a collection of mischievous suggestions and devices that the artist has dreamed up from everyday experience to tackle the frictions of a collective way of life. Lu Ying-Hua Translated by Song Yang Yin Xiu-Zhen, […]

I am convinced that my earliest memory of the death and funeral of someone close to me left such a strong impression on my psyche that it became the root of my self-consciousness. It gave me an incessant and strong fascination with the physical body that has remained as the basic source of all my […]

A Girl’s Consciousness: decisive, seductive, fearless, and sweet. Young girls are no longer worried about the world of old-fashioned romances anymore. They use their lens, even their bodies, to experience violence, sex, and the subversion of life and death. Their fragile hearts—hearts that may be broken by a sudden end of affairs, just like many […]

Since achieving a master’s degree in fine art from Chelsea College of Art in London in 1995, Jemima Brown has established a career as an artist practicing in a variety of media, including drawing, sculpture, and moving image. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is held in numerous private and public collections. Past awards […]

I graduated high school in 2001 and from there achieved my associate’s degree in graphic design/digital graphics in 2003 from a local community college. Immediately afterward I began my bachelor of arts degree at New Mexico State University, but stopped after one year for many reasons. Since experimenting with film photography as a teenager and […]

Joël Andrianomearisoa is 20. He hasn’t had time to have a professional past yet, but he does have a past, even though his young teenage body could lead you to believe otherwise. At the age of 20 you know how to refuse, especially when circumstances and your own desires give you a step back from […]

Showtime is meant as a series of events that will happen every two months in Shanghai inviting artists to explore possibilities of performance art under different themes that myself and artists find important after discussions. Performance art as a main activator of new ideas through development of Chinese contemporary art in the last ten years […]

Avi Davis: This will be an interview about art generated (largely) by interviews. So we’re operating with the ghosts of a lot of interviews looking over our shoulders. Did you ever feel like this was a commentary on the interview form, that the art is interviewing (or interrogating or commenting on) the interview that generated […]

It took Qu Zhi-Hang eight years to finish the series See and Be Seen. It seems kind of random and ridiculous that this group of work has attracted so much attention in 2008, a special period of time that belongs to China. With much contemplation, however, one would realize the randomness is inevitable. It’s a […]