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Yishu- Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art |
Volume 7, Number 5, September 2008 |
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Special Feature on Shanghai: Collectives, Emerging Artists, and the Art Ecology. A Conversation with Davide Quadrio of BizArt. Artist Features: Song Tao, Ding Yi, Zhang Enli. Guggenheim Museum's Asian Art Council Symposium: Part 3. And much more...
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Volume 7, Number 4, July 2008 |
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A Conversation with Ai Weiwei. The Beijing Biennale: The Politics of Chinese Characteristics.
Framed Authors: Photography and Conceptual Art from Dafen Village. Guggenheim Museum’s
Asian Art Council Symposium: Part 2. Reviews from Paris, Glasgow, Berlin, Melbourne. And much
more...
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Volume 7, Number 3, May 2008 |
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Artist Features:
Sui Jianguo, Zhang Wang, Ye Yongqing. Guggenheim Museum's Asia Art
Council Symposium: Part 1. A Home Conversation at the Beijing Pavilion.
Some Perspectives on Performance Art. Review of Cai Guo-Qiang's
I Want to Believe. And much more...
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Volume 7, Number 2, March 2008 |
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Special Feature on Painters: Su Xinping, Liu Xiaodong, Yue Minjun, Yang Jingsong. Panel Discussions: What is Left of the Hype? Interview with Wei-Li Yeh. do it Chinese Version. '85 New Wave Exhibition at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art. And much more...
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Volume 7,
Number 1, January 2008 |
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Writing Art History
in Hong Kong. Artist Features on Qiu Zhijie, Ching Ho Cheng, Lin Fengmian,
Wang Huaiqing. A Conversation Between Chu Yun and Hu Fang. Third Chengdu
Biennale. Istanbul Biennial. And much more...
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Volume 6, Number 4, Winter / December 2007 |
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Special Issue
on the Chinese Contemporary Art Market. Interviews with Liu Jianhua
and Shan Shan Sheng. Dialogue on documenta 12. And much more...
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Volume
6, Number 3, Fall/September 2007 |
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Contemporary
Art in Greater China: Under Pressure. 52nd Venice Biennale. documenta
12. Artist Features: Mo Yi, Zhang Jian Jun, Gao Brothers, Liang Shaoji.
Interview with Wang Peng. And much more...
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Volume 6,
Number 2, Summer/June 2007 |
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Venice Biennale
Preview. Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contrmporary Art. Interviews with
Wang Wei, Xu Bing, Simon Groom, and Karen Smith. Censorship in Shanghai.
Arrivals and Departures: New Perspectives on Hong Kong Art. And much
more...
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Volume 6,
Number 1, Spring/March 2007 |
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A tribute to
Jonathan Napack. Taipei Biennial 2006. Documenta 12 Magazines Special
Feature on Education. Interviews with Cai Guo-Qiang, Shen Yuan, Ed
Pien. And much more...
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Volume 5,
Number 4, Winter/December 2006 |
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A feature
on the Singapore and Shanghai Biennales. documenta 12 magazines
special feature on education including a discussion on the new trend
in Graduate Programs in Art and Culture in Taiwan. Interviews with
Samuel Kung (Chairman and Director of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary
Art), and Cao Fei. Reviews of the art of Luis Chan as well as Karen
Smith's Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China.
And much more...
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Volume 5,
Number 3, Fall/September 2006 |
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A special
issue for the documenta 12 magazines project. Yishu has
been invited to participate in this collective editorial project
linking over seventy print and online periodicals worldwide as well
as other media. documenta 12 magazines focuses on three
key questions: Is Modernity our Antiquity? What is Bare Life? and
What is to be Done (Education)? Yishu will be exploring aspects
of education and this issue, guest edited by Philip Tinari and David
Tung, is devoted to the Yan’an Forum on Art Education organized
by Cai Guo-Qiang and Lu Jie and presented as part of the Long March
Project, Yan’an, Shaanxi province.
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Volume 5,
Number 2, Summer/June 2006 |
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Analyses of the
social, economic, and cultural transformation
that is taking place in China today, as exemplified by the proceedings
of the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and the symposium titled
Cultural Memory held at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. The
folowing artists are featured: Tang Maohong, Michael Cherney, Qin
Yufen, Hong Hao, Shi Jinsong, and Robert Majzels. And much more...
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Volume 5,
Number 1, Spring/March 2006 |
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In-depth
special feature on recent exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art
that reveals directions that curators are generating in presentation,
interpretation, and understanding of artistic production by Chinese
artists. Features on artists Xing Danwen, Qui Ping, Feng Mengbo,
and Lin Dahong. Exhibitions reviewed include Lu Hao at the Goedhuis
Contemporary, China Trade at Centre A in Vancouver, and
the San Diego Museum of Art's Zooming into Focus in Beijing.
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Volume 4,
Number 4, Winter/December 2005 |
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Explores the
art scene in Hong Kong. Essay by Martina
Köppel-Yang discussing the position of Chinese art internationally. Wu Hung and
Patricia Karetzky bring updated perspectives on the work of Gu Wenda
and Zhang Dali. Biljana Ciric interviews Uli Sigg, an influential
collector of contemporary art from China. Xu Bing is featured with
an interview, an overview of a one-day symposium on his work, and
a discussion of his video work, Dynamic Desktop.
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Volume 4,
Number 3, Fall/September 2005 |
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In-depth coverage
of the Venice Biennale: Chinese Artists and the 51st Venice Biennale;
China’s spectacular Emersion versus the spectres of bureaucracy looming
in Taiwan, the Singaporean art of deconstructing national symbols,
wordless dialogue from Hong Kong or greater China at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Interviews with Wang Du and Philip Dodd. Zhang Linhai artist feature.
Recent event reviews and curatorial notes.
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Volume 4, Number 2, Summer/June 2005 |
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Coverage of an
international conference Displacements: Transcultural Encounters in
Contemporary Chinese Art held at Stanford University in conjunction
with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts exhibition
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West. A transcript
of a silent movie by Zhou Tiehai: WILL.
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Volume 4,
Number 1, Spring/March 2005 |
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New Approaches
to Exhibitions in China: including a Dialogue with Hans Ulrich Obrist
and Hou Hanru on the 2nd Guangzhou Triennial. Interviews with Michael
Lin and Hu Jieming. Artist Features include Tiande and Yin Xiuzhen.
An in-depth look at three generations of Taiwanese art.
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Volume 3,
Number 4, Winter/December 2004 |
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Taiwan: Artists,
Exhibitions, and Institutions - a special section featuring topics
in Taiwan Art. Interview feature with Cai Yuan and JJ Xi. An in-depth
look at the Shanghai Biennale. Reviews of Ai Weiwei at Robert Miller
Gallery, a look at the Gwangju Biennale, and The Dao of Wei Jane
Chir.
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Volume 3,
Number 3, Fall/September 2004 |
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Intersection:
An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Photography and Oil Painting.
Eccentric Notes on Dissent: The Art of Zhu Wei. Mutations <>
Connections: Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas. An Interview
with Yang Fudong.
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Volume 3,
Number 2, Summer/June 2004 |
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About Between
Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. An International
Discourse on New Chinese Video and Photography at the San Diego
Museum of Art. Envisioning the Future of Contemporary Art from Different
Glocal Positions: Symposium at the China National Academy of Art,
Hangzhou. Interview with Young Hay.
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Volume 3,
Number 1, Spring/March 2004 |
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Special Feature
on the Pearl River Delta: From the Heart of Canton. The Ostentatious
Pearl River Delta. The Fifth System as New Psychological Spaces.
Edges of the Earth SYMPOSIUM: The Syndrome of Asia. Earth Link and
Cosmic Time.
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Volume 2,
Number 4, Winter/December 2003 |
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A section
on Gu Wenda: From Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium. A survey
of China Reinvented - the art of overseas Chinese artists in the
United States. An essay on the art of Emily Cheng. A discussion
of contemporary Chinese photography. Review of the inaugural Beijing
Biennale.
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Volume 2,
Number 3, Fall/September 2003 |
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A feature
section on women artists that includes an essay on women's art in
Hong Kong. An analytical essay on the prospects of contemporary
Chinese art that draws on the impressions from the latest Venice
Biennale. Also features Han Ulrich Obrist's Camera interview
series that includes conversations with Chang Yung Ho, Wang Jianwei,
and Yang Fudong. In addition, included are the Long March feature as well as reviews by Jonathan Goodman.
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Volume 2,
Number 2, Summer/June 2003 |
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Chinese participation
in the 50th Venice Biennale. Coverage includes reviews and essays
by Shu-min Lin, Fan Di'an, Hou Hanru, Lin Yilin, Ou Ning, and more.
Ken Lum documents his interview with Hou Hanru. Among other contents:
a discussion on the influence of contemporary art on architectural
spaces, and essay on art in Hong Kong, and a comprehensive section
on contemporary Asian art. Also included are reviews of Too Much Flavor at Chambers Fine Art and Miguel Trelles at Taller Boricua.
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Volume 2,
Number 1, Spring/March 2003 |
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Special issue
on Contemporary Taiwan Art. Inside you will find a review of 2002
Taipei Biennial, essays on Taiwan art after 1945, Taiwanese artist
profiles, and more...
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Volume 1,
Number 3, Fall/November 2002 |
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Includes
a discussion on Chinese experimental art in 1990s, an overview of contemporary
Taiwanese art, a look at globalization, urbanization and New Chinese
Art, a collection of essays on the Long March Project, and more...
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Volume 1,
Number 2, Summer/August 2002 |
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Includes an
essay on Taiwan's contemporary art in the post-martial-law era,
an essay on political aspirations in art production concerning China's
Cultural Revolution, and more...
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Volume 1,
Number 1, Spring/May 2002 |
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Inaugural
issue. Features views on contemporary Chinese art by a panel of
established academics and artists, a curator's account of a trip
to China, an article on life and art of Cai Guo-Qiang, an academic
essay on Qian Zhongshu, an interview with Song Dong, reviews of
recent contemporary Chinese art events, and more...
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