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
