February 24, 2017, Vancouver, BC – Opening on March 4, 2017, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver-based artist Howie Tsui’s solo exhibition Retainers of Anarchy is an amalgamation of martial arts characters and techniques woven together with threads of social and political realities of present-day Hong Kong. Presented as a non-linear counter narrative in the […] >> Read more
Curator: Leo Li Chen Featured artists: Chen Wei, Hao Jingban, Hu Weiyi, Jen Liu, Lu Yang Date: 14.1 – 4.3.2017 Opening Reception: 14 January 2017, Saturday, 4 – 6:30pm Artist talk starts at 4:30pm. “After Party: Collective Dance and Individual Gymnastics” originates from Roland Barthes’ notes from his visit to China in 1974. This exhibition […] >> Read more
Recently, I came across a conversation between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht (in the former’s book Understanding Brecht, first published in 1966)... >> Read more