What is their secret to first of all – a successful life together as a creative couple and – secondly successful careers independently from one another? – It is the chopstick approach: “mutual trust, equality and independence”.
>> Read moreGreco Grand Palais ( 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris) Oct 16, 2019 – Feb 10, 2020 Ran Dian: So what was it like? * Thomas Eller: It was like walking around in a book. Not an exhibition. Interesting for historians though but with some really bad paintings, but revealing. There was one master piece, which […]
>> Read moreThe first appearance of the ouroboros—the mythological snake that eats its own tail—appears in an ancient funerary text discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamen in 14th century BC. Across cultures, this act of autophagy has symbolized the cyclical processes of life and death, whose union can be seen formulating pre-modern conceptions of eternity.
>> Read moreMuch has happened in Beijing a few months back, but looking over shows large and small there hasn’t been much to show for, other than “social shows” that you can’t really make head or tail out of, shows that lack daring. Ran Dian invited Bian Ka to talk about his ideas in his own show, “A Chemical Love Story”…
>> Read moreA 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.
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