Beijing Xingwei: Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art

by Meiling Cheng

Paperback, 2013

Status

Available

Call number

REF.CML

Publication

Seagull Books, India

Description

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. In Beijing Xingwei, Meiling Cheng engages with such artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its post-Deng era. Beijing Xingwei--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, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, Beijing Xingwei provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.    … (more)

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ISBN

9780857420879
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