by Sophia Kidd | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
The recent Water Forming Chengdu exhibition in Sydney, Australia and now brought home to Chengdu uncovers an art history which is situated in the natural urban environment, reinforcing a daoist tradition of deeply respecting waterways as well as the trans-physical...
by Shen, Lynette | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Soft-opened on Nov 6th, 2021, the state-funded Chengdu Biennale scheduled to run through Apr 6th, 2022, the Chengdu Biennale is held at Chengdu Tianfu Art Park，whichindicates a growing interest on the part of the government to develop Chengdu coupled with Chongqing in...
by Shen, Lynette | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
How do ethnic minority artists join the mainstream contemporary Chinese art discourse?These artworks，featured in the exhibition come from diverse cultural background, tend to go unmentioned, disregarded, generally underrepresented in the mainstream discourse of...
by Shen, Lynette | Jan 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Positioning itself as “one of the largest-scale, most academically minded art biennales of the post-COVID era” (according to Fan Di’an, curator of the Biennale), the Chengdu Biennale still faces the challenge of emerging Delta and Omicron variants, as China strives to...
by Sophia Kidd | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
The 2021 Biennale is filling two huge and brand new museums, is composed of 8 sectional exhibitions curated by a total of 16 curators. In this first of a series of blog entries on the Chengdu Biennale, we’ll simply outline the 8 sectional exhibitions. We’ll focus on...
by Sophia Kidd | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
What is the difference between behavior and performance? Older generations of Chinese performance artists teach their students ‘behavior art’ and eschew ‘performance art.’ These teachers of the Chinese form of performance art ask their students to remain embodied...
