Yuko Mohri is an installation artist. Her installations are strange. Under her spell, the exhibition space becomes a self-operating, animatronic stomping ground: chirps, bursts, flashes, and dashes of…
Read MoreIt’s been 20 years since Beijing-born artist Wang Gongxin returned to China after a decade in Williamsburg, bringing with him fresh ideas about new media and video art. He first responded to his repat…
Read MoreThe Beijing art world likes talking to itself and about itself. When the word “Beijing” is part of a seminar title, it does not describe a geographical area, but implies a certain grandnes…
Read More“The novelty of the coming politics is that it will no longer be a struggle for the conquest of control of the State, but a struggle between the State and the non-State (humanity), and insurmountable …
Read MoreThrough “Moving Images,” the latest in a series of exhibitions that precede the construction of Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture, curator Yung Ma attempts to reconstruct the phenomenon of immigration, providing a systematic survey of the institution’s collection of work in the moving image. It is especially appropriate to examine immigration in the…
Read MoreSome readers may recall the early days of 179 Canal, the gallery and den of rambunctious activity that sat on Canal Street, lower Manhattan’s main thoroughfare, just east of Broadway. A generation of downtown New York artists remember its experimental installations and wild parties. Spanning both Chinatown and the Lower East Side, Canal Street is…
Read MoreArtist Timur Si-Qin unveils his first solo exhibition in China, “Biogenic Mineral,” at Magician Space in April 2015. For this exhibition, the artist presents the brand Truth by Peace (TBP) in sculpture and photography. LEAP talks to Si-Qin about attractors and their varying forms in his work. LEAP Your work frequently makes use of commercial…
Read MoreOn the afternoon of April 26, LEAP celebrated the release of its April issue, “The State of Beijing: A Report,” with a launch party at Wu Jin. The party’s ambience was in sync with the afternoon heat, pushing Beijing’s temperature to above 30 degrees Celsius for the first time this year. The gathering, held in…
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