30 Years of Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art In 2016 Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art celebrated 30 years since the organization was founded. It was formed in 1986 as the Chinese View Arts Association, a festival platform of art, music and dance whose purpose was to create an improved understanding of Chinese culture for UK … Continue reading
RoCH Fans and Legends Freeebook / Unlimited ebook, FREE 20 December 2017 Design by Land of Plenty 67pp plus video, audio and interactive content ORDER HERE FEATURED WORKS Covers I & II (2015), animated drawing, 3’ Figures (2015) contravision vinyls, dimensions variable Peach Blossom Isle (2015) wallpaper, dimensions variable Trailers (2015), single-channel video, 4’ RoCH … Continue reading
Return of the Condor Heroes and Other Narratives by Beccy Kennedy Third Text, August 2016 Review of susan pui san lok’s recent exhibition, ‘RoCH Fans & Legends’ at Derby’s QUAD Gallery (19 September – 15 November 2015) and Manchester’s Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (3 June – 3 July 2016) Download PDF Continue reading
Here We Are BY EN LIANG KHONG What does ‘Chinese’ mean as an artistic category in Britain today? In London recently, I sat through a public panel discussion between a mainland-born Chinese artist and a British curator, held for the benefit of those interested in investing in the Chinese art market. The curator repeatedly urged the artist … Continue reading
Mnemoscape Magazine #2 JC Kristensen & susan pui san lok, Six Women / Art Vapours, 2015, visual/text essay (featured image) In the Presence of Absence – editorial by Elisa Adami “The disappearance seems to be not only a vanishing but also a need to fill the gap with something different, perhaps the opposite of … Continue reading
Celebrating the publication of Journal of Visual Culture, v12n3 – The Archives Issue, edited by Juliette Kristensen & Marquard Smith Whitechapel Gallery, London Thursday 30 January 2014, 5pm The launch will be followed by ‘Autobiography and the Archive’, a screening of work by Uriel Orlow, Miranda Pennell and Sarah Purcell, exploring the archive, collective memory, and personal history, curated by … Continue reading
Journal of Visual Culture, v12n3 – The Archives Issue Edited by Juliette Kristensen & Marquard Smith Contributors Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (in conversation with Tom Holert) The Archival Multitude susan pui san lok RoCH Fans and Legends (Entries) Marquard Smith Theses on the Philosophy of History: The Work of Research in the Age of … Continue reading
Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images Photoworks book launch in association with Culture+Conflict Amnesty International The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, United Kingdom, EC2A 3EA 25 June 2013, 6.30pm FREE event, but booking is essential Join Julian Stallabrass for a discussion of the highly anticipated Photoworks publication, … Continue reading
Actually.org… the truth matters The facts are out there, just not in Romney’s campaign Easier as a Latino? Rosie Perez sets Mitt straight F*ck Science! W. Kamau Bell hates science! Just like Mitt Romney Life Begins at Incorporation Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead on “people.” (Corporations) 100% Wrong Is Mitt a “maker” or a “taker”? … Continue reading
Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space 6 October – 4 November 2012 Opening Weekend Discussion Day A day of panel discussions with BPB12 Artists – 6 October 2012 Bringing international and emerging photographers and artists to the city, the fifth Brighton Photo Biennial explores the theme Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space with a … Continue reading
