Schlagwort: contemporary

Contemporary hogwash

Oh dear,

why must it be me?  I am very unfond of contemporary art in general and Ai Weiwei in particular. Yet, my mind is set on writing that thesis paper on his tea house (2009). Now I am in the midst of finding out what that transcultural chitchat actually means. I look forward to the day when I can respond in a sonorous voice to people talking in their pig latin about theories they did not grab as a whole, applying this gibberish on very ugly media-performed-cyberesque-intertrans-postgender-postcolonial-postmodern art…

Here I will collect several basic theoretical works on the structure behind contemporary art… (and how to deconstruct all the hot air around it!)

  • Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung (eds.), 2004: Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985: From 1985 to the Present (neue Ausgabe 2012)

-bourdieu

-wu hung ruins, fragmenation and the chinese modern/postmodern google ebook

  • Nicholas Mirzoeff (ed.), 2002 [1999] : The Visual Culture Reader
  • Lieven De Cautier, Ruben De Roo, Karel Vanhaesebrouck (eds.), 2011: Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization (Reflect)
  • Jonathan Harris, 2011: Globalization and Contemporary Art

-david clarke contemporary asian art and the west

-ian robertson the art market in transition, the global economic crisis and the rise of asia

  • Wu Hung, Peggy Wang (eds.), 2010 : Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents)
  • Melissa Chiu; Benjamin Genocchio, 2011 :  Contemporary art in Asia : a critical reader
  • Melissa Chiu; Benjamin Genocchio, 2011 :  Asian Art Now
  • Minglu Gao, 2011 : Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
  • Der Begriff „kulturelle Skripte“ („cultural scripts“) wurde von Schank & Childers (1984) im Rahmen der Erforschung künstlicher Intelligenz entwickelt
  • Wolfgang Welsch 2009: https://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/tk-1.pdf ; https://www.via-regia-thueringen.de/bibliothek/pdf/heft20/welsch_transkulti.pdf
  • Vorarbeiter von Welsch war Clyde Kluckhohn
  • https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-contemporary-art-theory/
  • Bernell, Robert. „Interview: Ai Weiwei on CCAA, Identity and His Recent Conceptual Work,““Chinese Type“ Contemporary Art Online Magazine, vol. 1, issue 6 (January 1999). https://www.chinese-art.com/volume1issue6/
  • https://www.museum-dkm.de/d/0000/pm/pm_m/pm_5300.pdf

word stumbler

  • internationalist culture
  • deconstruct<> reconstruct
  • cultural scripts
  • (L)imitation
  • multiculaturalism

Chinese-African Connections

  • Wifredo Lam/ 林飛龍 (Lín Fēilóng), geboren am 2. Dezember 1902 Sagua la Grande, Kuba; † 11. September 1982 Paris, Frankreich
  • Pascale Marthine Tayou, geboren 1967 in Yaoundé, Kamerun. EXPO 2010 Shanghai
  • Kendell Geers (Südafrika) hosts his first solo art exhibition in mainland China at Galleria Continua. In „Fin de Partie,“ Geers attempts to connect his artistic experience with local Chinese culture.
  • Michael MacGarry: „Hu Jintao and the Scramble for Africa“, 2007, Okiyi mask auf US Ghillie suit, South African Art Now p.104
  • Cài Gúoqiáng 蔡国强 : Saraab/Mirage https://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2011/12/06/22897065.html „ساي جوو تشانغ: سراب“ (December 5, 2011 – May 26, 2012) https://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18050/cai-guo-qiang-saraab-at-mathaf-arab-museum-of-modern-art-qatar.html

Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions Open In South Africa, Canada

Diverese: Zhang Huan: „12 Square Metres“, 1994. Travelled to the West in 1990s, performing (fish and oil honey covered)

Penny Siopis: Ambush, 2008 – Hokusai Fishermans wife dreams, octopus

  • disappearing Liu Bolin https://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/15618/liu-bolin-hiding-in-new-york-performances.html (planking, urban camouflage)
  • Cài Gúoqiáng 蔡国强 : Saraab/Mirage : ‚homecoming‘ is a series of stones from quanzhou in which arabic inscriptions of tombstones are inscribed from quanzhou’s historic arab community. the rocks wind their way from the museum’s courtyard into the atrium, symbolizing their homecoming.
  • Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld: Global Stone https://www.globalstone.de/documents/Illius_ad_Kueka.pdf ; https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/stadtleben/installation-global-stones-stonehenge-imtiergarten/3862550.html

better the bester

I held my presentation about Mr Bester. I was very attracted to his „Dogs of War“ and tried comparing them to actual canine robots. some of them even connected to war.

with one teardrop in my sad eye, I left out the laugh of inserting k-9 of dr. who. Instead, I included:

i still need to ask mr bester if he read about those, especially about the boston dynamics big dog before he created his „dogs of war“. could’ve been possible!