A series of utterly ordinary things – a bulge on the trunk of a wutong tree, rubber gloves hanging from the handlebar of an electric scooter, a waterproof jacket on a washing line, some ethereal glimmers on the fencing around a construction site—that nonetheless inspire a certain uncanny feeling inside us.

Although deliberate confusion of time implies something too nostalgic for digestion, it calls out a suppressed desire for the ghostly echo of the “past” ringing in “now” and “future.” It also renders various derivative points about being sarcastic with the objects to prefer nature to culture, ornament to function, instinct for death to drive for life, and sex drive to intellectual drive—being pared down to a new cycle of extraction, fermentation, condensation, and transpiration.

By imagining a “nether world” that is also euipped with economic, political and cultural aesthetic systems, the plea of the artist that “the netherworld should break away from all the domination from the world of the livings” has its relevance winding in our realities.

Zian Chen called exhibitions that give Chinese Contemporary Art look-backs in variation as Instant Retrospectives, which applies Hauntology theory to uncover substitutions between what happened in the past and what is possible in the future, in an attempt to articulate a rebellion against a linear time within contemporary art.

As life was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sammi Liu, owner of Tabula Rasa Gallery, and artist aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) have been stranded in London and Berlin respectively. Author Danielle Shang who lives in Los Angeles and curator Weng Xiaoyu at the Guggenheim Museum in New York have hunkered down for nearly a year, unable…

What is China’s “ecological civilization,” and what are its ideological origins? Understanding how the ideas and history of Marxism in China interlock with ecological thought, as Long March Project has set out to do, is crucial.

Human (un)limited_Beijing exhibition, jointly curated by Ars Electronica and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, will open to the public on November 19th at the Hyundai Motorstudio in 798. This year’s theme, Human (un)limited, follows the practice from last year in China, South Korea, and Russia, to show that the artists around the word are not only helping build a better life today, but also improving living conditions for tomorrow.

In an age of increasingly volatile political visions, “The Racing Will Continue, The Dancing Will Stay” may be regarded as a positive attempt to tease out and touch on issues that aren’t brought up all too often.

LEAP discusses with the curator Cuauhtémoc Medina the complex web of references in his curatorial and research work.

In Wang Haiyang’s artworks, the erosion and mortality of the human form give rise to other versions of vibrant life and embodiment.

  Inside a moon-like circle on the back cover of The Pillow Book is a list of things it is not: “Not a memoir. Not an epic. Not an essay. Not a spell. Not a shopping list. Not a nocturne. Not a dream book. Not a prayer. Not a novel. Not an apology. Not a…

Leap, revue internationale sur l’art contemporain chinois et asiatique, première édition française :« Chine : les communautés flottantes » (édition bilingue français-mandarin, Beijing-Paris, 2015, 220 pages, 12 € – www.leapleapleap.com) Leap – entendez « Le bond » ou « Le saut »– est une revue internationale sur l’art contemporain chinois et asiatique. Elle paraît depuis…

LEAP: « Empires » : telle est la thématique choisie pour cette édition 2016 de Monumenta. Le dossier de presse parle d’ « une installation immersive de grande échelle ». Comment doit-on comprendre ce terme d’immersif? Huang Yong Ping: Cet adjectif souligne le fait que les spectateurs doivent cheminer au sein de l’installation. Ca ne signifie…

Le 27 janvier 2016 s’est ouverte l’exposition « BENTU（1）, des artistes chinois dans la turbulence des mutations », organisée par la Fondation Louis Vuitton en collaboration avec l’UCCA de Pékin. En parallèle de cette exposition, la Fondation présente des œuvres issues de son fond d’art contemporain chinois ; c’est la première fois que l’ensemble du…

Cet article traite d’une question classique, à savoir que le fait de corriger ou reconsidérer l’Histoire ne se limite pas à un objectif politique. En réalité, il s’agit d’une attitude admise et adoptée par la société toute entière. Tout un chacun se trouve généralement attiré par une réalité ou un récit idéalisé sur le plan…

A stopped truck carries a huge oil painting stretching across the foreground. In the distance there is a newly built city, a vision almost exactly the same as the one portrayed in the painting. This is Liu Xiaodong’s poster for his solo exhibition. Here the artist nearly entirely confirms the essential elements we have become…

The title “Twin Tracks,” originating in a Chinese proverb, usually refers to the difficulty of reaching a goal when one is heading in the wrong direction. Yang Fudong’s exhibition guides the audience …

WEB EXCLUSIVE Although still in the process of receiving her BFA degree, Singapore-based artist Jennifer Mehigan (b. 1988, Ireland) has managed to make a splash with her work in both physical and virtual space. Using online platforms such as Tumblr, Instagram, and Vimeo as conduits, Mehigan’s multimedia practice, with its signature pastel palette and organic,…

                                        LAST WEEKEND, ICA London hosted a Lunch Bytes event inviting writer/ artist/ curator Holly Childs, theorist Florian Cramer, artist David Jablonowski, artist Cally Spooner, and writer/ poet Elvia Wilk to moderate a discussion on linguistic…

WEB EXCLUSIVE Avery Singer (b. 1987, lives and works in New York) is known for her monochromatic airbrush paintings that manage to simultaneously raise philosophical questions and poke fun at the clichés of contemporary art. Her most recent show, “Pictures Punish Words” at the Kunsthalle Zürich, which will soon travel to the Foundazione Sandretto Re…