Reading: (2nd time) Susan Mann — The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

In early 2008, before I moved to Berlin, I had a book-buying spree, and a couple of those books I …

Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波

Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …

Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind

feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind

記得天安门

all about jin xing

Whenever I’d be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking …

恭喜天安门

tiananmen square june 1989

new photography in guangzhou

All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …

when in doubt … cliché and generalise

Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …

向欧洲致歉 apologies to europe

Occasionally I stumble across an artist who manages to strip all the complexity from what is often a torturous endeavour, …

smashing small thing together really fast

Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I’ve been blogging so much about …

3030 new photography in china

A new book of contemporary art photographers from China: 3030: New Photography in China This fully illustrated survey of 30 …

we hate art and like nothing interesting

Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …

p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom

It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …

nine lives – the birth of avante-garde in new china

SCALO Books have just published Beijing resident Karen Smith’s Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde in New China, and …

大山子 798 fringe arts festival

大山子or 798 Arts District in Beijing is holding its first Biennale to coincide with the Beijing Arts Festival. Wiki has …

sixth generation film

Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle was a bit of an underground hit a couple of years ago – not that I …

happy anniversary

expressions at guangdong modern dance festival

The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town, …

bikes are bad

When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I was expecting to see more bicycles. I wasn’t too surprised by their relative …

babes in beijing

In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …

contemporary dance must die

A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …

COSPlayers – cao fei in beijing

Guangzhou artist Cao Fei has opened her exhibition at Courtyard Gallery in Beijing. Urban teenage superhero video COSPlayers is being …

大声展 get it louder

大声展 get it louder opens in Shenzhen at the end of next month before moving to Shanghai and Beijing. Over …

gangstalean and beijing bookworm

So I go away for a couple of weeks, and look at all these new websites. Bloody hell, I’m glad …

Rear Light – Beijing Dance at the Joyce

The 北京現代舞團 Beijing Modern Dance Company have been performing Read Light at the Joyce Theatre in New York. The Times …

asian blog awards

The results are in for the 2004 Asian Blog Awards. Go over and check it out, and see some new …

that’s gets shut down

Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That’s Magazines – Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when …

give me toilet architecture or give me death

Professor Yu is going to be taking alot of shit for a while for thinking Rem Koolhaas should apologise for …

大山子艺术区 on wiki

Factory 798 in Beijing was the site of the Dashanzi International Art Festival earlier this year, and is one of …

making art in china

What’s it like to be a foreign artist in residence in China? Last night, three of us from the Taipei …

beijing artists channel throbbing gristle

An opinion piece on the current state of avant-garde art in Beijing brought to mind a conversation I’d had in …

architecture in beijing

The first architecture Biennial Beijing 2004 has just started in the capital, and Stefano Mirti, Simone Muscolino and Luca Poncellini …

i hope someday you will join

The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …

中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing

As Beijing is swathed in a landscape of construction and demolition, the 中国国际建筑艺术双年展 1st Architecture Biennale – Beijing opens today, …

北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy 50th anniversary

The 北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next week, which has attracted little attention, but if …

xu yong at 798 space

Xu Yong, who runs 798 Space in the Dashanzi arts district in Beijing, where the recent 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi International Arts …

北京娃娃 Beijing Doll

Early this year, Asian Times wrote a long article on lingei, the Chinese equivalent of Gen-X. Chun Shu, the author …

comrades at trainspotting

This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men …

北京现代舞团 beijing modern dance company – 《逆光》- rear light

北京现代舞团 – beijing modern dance company, one of the three or four contemporary dance companies in mainland China is getting …

Iain Mott at 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Art Festival

ANAT, The Australian Network for Art and Technology have just published the July-October issue of Filter devoted to sound. One …

climbing in beijing

The magazine that got me out of my apartment and finding Guangzhou has a cover story on the one thing …

films at 798 factories

798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …

cui jian – the father of chinese rock n roll

asia pacific arts has an interview with Cui Jian, the ‘father of Chinese rock n roll’, who started out playing …

between past and future

The massive 10 year retrospective Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China has just opened in New …

new media arts in Beijing

The international New Media Arts Exhibition Millenium Dialogue is running in Beijing at the moment, with students and lecturers from …

Wang Qingsong makes art

Opening in a couple of days on June 11 is Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, …

onedotzero in Beijing + Shanghai

China Daily has a piece on onedotzero the festival of digital film making its way to Beijing and Shanghai in …

798 Factories – great article shame about the title

The 大山字 Dashanzi Arts Festival at 798 Factories made the news in Australia today, and not just in buried in …

798 Factories books

The 798 Factories Dashanzi Arts Festival is going on at the moment, and for those of us who can’t make …

Architecture in Beijing

The future of Beijing architecture is roads, motorways, expressways, and making more and bigger urban streets. Xinhuanet wrote about the …

首届北京国际新媒体艺术展暨研讨会 – First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium

Tsinghua University in Beijing, together with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media from Germany, and V2_ from Nederlands will …

大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories

Beijing is becoming the home of avant-garde art in China according to several newspapers which ran the article on 798 …

The Other Path – Landscape Initiatives project

Geri Wittig presented an overview of the C5 Landscape Initiative project at Beijing’s China Central Academy of Fine Arts yesterday. …

Tiananmen artists in Australia

Fifteen years ago today, the events that resulted in the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing began. The most visual display …

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