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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a possible future ended. Only some archaeological documents remain. Liu Cixin’s utopian short story “Zhongguo 2185”, written in the 1980s and published as samizdat in 1989, speaks of this spectral future. “Zhongguo 2185” envisions a future in which a democratic China, led by a female president, is forced to shut down the power network to stop a cybernetic insurgency helmed by one of six virtually resurrected brains—Chairman Mao’s. >> Read more

It is not what you do, but how you do it that makes it either a good deed or good art. In the case of “About the War in Northern Myanmar”, Zhang Yue and Bao Xiaowei succeeded in both, making this the most memorable show in Beijing in 2015. >> Read more

The organizers of “Community Hospital” approached the exhibition with the rigor of a medical practitioner. >> Read more

Chen Chieh-jen's Realm of Reverberation (2014) participates in the 2nd Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by contemporary artist, Jitish Kallat, with the theme of "Whorled Exploration". >> Read more

Arrow Factory is proud to announce a new installation by Taipei-based artist Wei-Li Yeh and Beijing-based architects Li Mo and Kong. >> Read more

The 31 artists/artist groups participating in the project are all members or friends of this artist-run space. In the past two years, they have been moved back and forth, here and there. Such an exchange on the edges of empires also differ methodologically from post-colonial discursive frameworks... >> Read more

Curated by Anselm Franke (critic and curator based in Berlin), the Taipei Biennial 2012 with its title “Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction” tackles the questions around modernity and the systematic violence that has been inseparable from its expansion and growth. >> Read more