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   [Date]: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:02:36 -0800
   [From]: Britta Erickson <britta2@leland.Stanford.EDU>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Chinese art taking off from "Sensation"

In answer to Kim:

If you look at the "Chinese Type Contemporary Art Online Magazine" (Only
Western language publication devoted exclusively to contemporary Chinese
art), you can see a few photos from the exhibition, "Post Sensation: Alien
Bodies and Delusions."  Here is the issue:
http://www.chinese-art.com/volume2issue2/index.html  Then go to the index
bar on the right, and select Beijing exhibitions.  That exhibition was
publicized only by word of mouth, and it still had to close down almost
immediately.  The government does not condone such exhibitions, although
often they will turn a blind eye, depending on their mood.  The exhibition
was literally underground--in an old tunnel shelter.  "Culture.Life" - a
subsequent, similarly shocking, exhibition - was installed, but closed
before anyone could see it.  You can find it here:
http://www.chinese-art.com/Contemporary/volume2issue5/beijing1.htm

The animal pieces make me very angry.  I have been told that the work with
the body of an old man face to face with the body of a fetus was quite
poignant.  It reminds me of Billy Viola's video installation where he
placed a monitor showing a video of his dying mother inches away from
another monitor showing a video of his baby.  The monitors faced each
other, and the images reflected onto one another.

Regards,

Britta



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