The First Guangzhou Triennial - Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)

Published to coincide with the First Guangzhou Triennial (opening November 18, 2002), this volume provides a systematic description and analysis of Chinese experimental art and cinema of the 90s, the subject of the Triennial. This volume consists of three parts: Part One provides an overview of 90s' Chinese cinema with seventeen scholarly essays on Chinese cinema and experimental art; Part Two is a catalogue of 130 works by 120 artists selected for the Triennial and provides an analysis in three large thematic sections centered on History and Reality, People and Environment, and Local and Global; Part Three provides a complete chronology of important events and exhibitions and a detailed bibliography, including all publicly and privately published books and exhibition catalogue of this art. Contents: Introduction: A Decade of Experimental Art by Wu Hung (University of Chicago) (1) Experimental painting of the 90s Yi Ying (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) (2) Installation and experimental sculpture of the 90s by Yin Shuangxi (Studies of Fine Arts, Beijing) (3) Experimental photography of the 90s Karen Smith (Independent curator/art critic, London) (4) Performance art of the 90s by Feng Boyi (Association of Chinese Artists) (5) Video and multi-medium art of the 90s by Wu Meichun and Qiu Zhijie (National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou) (6) Experimental art by women artists in the 90s by Liao Wen (Independent art critic, Beijing) (7) Experimental art by overseas Mainland Chinese artists in the 90s (1: Europe and America) by Fei Dawei (Independent curator/art critic, Paris) (8) Experimental art by overseas Mainland Chinese artists in the 90s (2: Asia-Pacific rim) by BinghuiHuangfu (Lasale-sia College of the Arts) (9) Experimental artists and art groups in the 90s by Zhu Qi (Independent curator/art critic, Beijing) (10) Experimental exhibitions in the 90s by Wu Hung (University of Chicago) (11) Experimental art educational and institutional reforms in the 90s by Pi Li (Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing) (12) Chinese scholarship and criticism on experimental art in the 90s by Yi Ying (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) (13) Reception in the West of experimental Chinese art of the 90s by Britta Erickson (Stanford University) (14) New urban film of the 90s by Zhang Zhen (New York University) (15) Experimental short feature film of the 90s by Yang Haijun (Central Academy of Film, Beijing) (16) Experimental documentary film and video in the early 90s by Chris Berry (University of California, Berkeley) (17) Documentary movement and the rise of digital video by Wu Wenguang (Independent filmmaker, Beijing)… (more)