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The last two decades of precipitous change have provided much grist for recent exhibitions, artist talks, and essays. The pre-eminence of digital technologies in society, the unpredictable advances in biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence, and irreversible environmental degradation encapsulated under the banner of the Anthropocene all speak to a certain disquiet towards unproblematic notions of progress. >> Read more

Titled As We May Think, Feedforward, extending this seminal text’s far-reaching ramifications into the artistic domain as a way to reflect on the trajectories of technological advances and their reverberations throughout the social sphere over the past decades, the 6th edition of Guangzhou Triennial seeks to address the multiple implications engendered by such a technologically constructed time-space - in the real and through the virtual - by examining creative endeavors both from geographical purviews and from cosmic prospects in responding to the challenges and opportunities at stake and to think, once again, through a new alliance of visions by humans and nonhumans alike, machines and flesh with equal footing, organic and inorganic hand in hand, an alternative outlook for a new possibility of ecology whereby a retooled humanism may thrive in a Parliament of Things (to borrow a term from Bruno Latour) in symbiosis and reciprocity. >> Read more

In celebration of its fifth anniversary, for summer 2018 OCAT Xi’an orchestrated a special focus on “Xi’an”, its art, culture, and geography present and past, through a large-scale, expanded presentation of the Xi’an Showcase project. >> Read more

Over the past few years my research has focused on the development of sound art and experimental music practices in China since the early '90s. My approach to these practices has been strongly influenced by the idea that sound can be critical. >> Read more

The first was that we understand our localities better than outsiders do; and the second, was that we know better than the locals how things ought to be. This brings me to reflect again on the anxiety caused by On Practice—Northeast Asia (实践论-东北亚) a year and a half ago; it’s relevance seems pretty clear. >> Read more

Entitled Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, the Second Yinchuan Biennale will open on June 9, 2018, at the MOCA Yinchuan. Under the artistic direction of Marco Scotini, the Yinchuan Biennale is pleased to announce the curatorial team composed of Andris Brinkmanis, Paolo Caffoni, Zasha Colah, and Lu Xinghua. >> Read more

As a new non-profit, experimental art space, how should de Art Center’s first exhibition be curated? This question has been on my mind for quite some time. Now it is my pleasure to work with Ju Anqi to present his solo here. In China Ju is reputed as an alternative figure both in film-making and […] >> Read more

Taikang Space will present “Genders Engender”, a major exhibition of the year, accompanied by forums, workshops and publications altogether. >> Read more

The Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai is proud to present the latest exhibition “Walking On The Fade Out Lines” from March 24 to May 27, 2018. >> Read more

Amidst the proliferation of private art museums in Shanghai and around China, smaller collector spaces are also opening with more modest but also more focused ambitions. Influential Shanghai collectors, Andrew and Lingling Ruff, opened 166 Art Space in late 2017. Its third show, curated by Josef Ng, opens this month. Ran Dian: Andrew, what brought […] >> Read more