Aspects of the ephemeral in contemporary art and cultural practice in China

Ephemera workshop, Rice UniversityChao Center for Chinese Studies

Dr. Katie HillOCCA – Office of Contemporary Chinese Art, Oxford, UK

Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and New York

Qiu Zhijie, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Reactivation, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Wu Shanzhuan (b.1956) Big Business -Selling Prawns. Installation, blackboard, chalk, prawns

National Art Gallery, Beijing, 1989

Books translated and published in the 1980s in China including Chan Buddhist texts and translations of Western authors such as Wittgenstein, Beckett, Ionesco, Kant and Sartre, to name a few

Scenes of the Burning Event (destroying works of art outside the

Xiamen Art Museum) by the Xiamen Dada group, 1986

Xiamen Dada, Exhibition for Fujian Art Museum, 1986

Sheng Qi (b.1965) and others, Concept 21 on Great Wall. Performance, 1986

Xi Jianjun and Sheng Qi, Concept 21 – we don’t care if 3 x 7=21, 1987, Beijing University campus

‘China/Avant-garde’ exhibition National Gallery of China, Beijing, 1989

Xiao Lu (b.

Duan Yingmei, I Love Computer, Hanover, 2005

Duan Yingmei, Yingmei in Wonderland, with Susanne Resch, live performance installation, 22th june 2008 (Foto: jürgen bernhard kuck)

To add one meter to an anonymous mountain, 1995.Live performance with Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Ma Zongyin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin and Zhu MingDuration approx. 20 minutesPhotographer: Lu Nan

Mad For Real (Cai Yuan b.1956 and JJ Xi b. 1962)Soya Sauce Ketchup Fight, University of Essex 19th January, 2009

Perspex box, bottles of soya sauce and ketchup

Soya Sauce Ketchup Fight, Performance, Liverpool Biennale, 2002

Mad For Real, Monkey King Plays Havoc in the Heavenly Kingdom, British Museum, 2004

Alive, Alive-O! (Huozhe Huozhe) 2004 Morecambe Bay, LancashireThis memorial project was a tribute to the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned at Morecambe Bay in February 2004. It was an exploration of the dark underbelly of globalisation in the context of Britain and China. The artists inscribed the word alive, alive oh! in the sand, which was subsequently swept away by the incoming tide.

Tomato Lorry, Vital Live Art Festival Manchester 2006

Song Dong , Waste Not, 2005-2012 (BTAP, Beijing) - ongoingInstallation, 10,000 household objects

Barbican Art Gallery, London, Feb-June, 2012

Song Dong, Waste Not, installation

Liang Shaoji (b.1945), Silkworms series

Hu Jie Though I am Gone, 2005Documentary film

Ai Weiwei, Nian 念 , 2010

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