Lei Yan 雷燕, whose artistic practice was shaped by a decades-long career in the Chinese military, ... more Lei Yan 雷燕, whose artistic practice was shaped by a decades-long career in the Chinese military, began a period of transition through participation in a 2002 restaging of the Communist Red Army’s 1934 Long March as a multi-sited international art project. Her resulting encounter with US feminist art icon Judy Chicago raised questions about the potential neocolonial influence of global feminist art. The work Lei subsequently produced performs an autoethnographic excavation of the sociohistorical categories—woman soldier, military artist, and woman artist—that made her as both artist and woman. She works from within a national representational corpus, subjecting it to various experiments to reveal the fields of violence it has enacted from the Sino-Vietnamese War to the Great Sichuan earthquake. Lei Yan’s meditation through photography upon national, revolutionary iconography evolved into soft sculpture objects in cloth and paper. Their arrested ephemerality decenters the human subjec...
Experimental Beijing Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Throughout the many years it has taken me to research and write this book, the list of people to ... more Throughout the many years it has taken me to research and write this book, the list of people to whom I am indebted has grown in ways I could never have imagined at the outset. The traces of their intellect, imagination, generosity, and care weave through every aspect of what appears in these pages. I am humbled by the collective e ort that has sustained this endeavor and more aware than ever that knowledge and creativity are never singular pursuits. I, alone, remain responsible for any errors. First and foremost, I thank all of the art world participants-artists, assistants, teachers, students, curators, critics, and gallerists-who shared their lives and work with me, including those whose names and images appear in this book, as well as many others. I appreciate their generosity in time and spirit, often o ered before they could know I might be deserving of their trust. Those who responded with criticism and circumspection deepened my thinking and ethical commitments. Beyond those named within the text, I extend thanks to the following individuals. Song Changqing first opened my eyes. Chen Xi, Cui Xiuwen, Daozi, Feng Jiali, Lei Shuang, Tao Yongbai, and Yuan Yaomin guided my early inquiry. Zhang Zhaohui collaborated on interviews and invited me to review exhibits. Zheng Lianjie, Wei Shanghe, and Zha Ba included me as interlocutor in many memorable activities.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2006
... feminism, because a reconfigured version of nüxing has emerged in post-socialist China, and q... more ... feminism, because a reconfigured version of nüxing has emerged in post-socialist China, and questions ... sex desire and love played an integral role in the engendering of Chinese modernity. ... consciousness, draws from the past in order to face postsocialist China's normative po ...
Lei Yan 雷燕, whose artistic practice was shaped by a decades-long career in the Chinese military, ... more Lei Yan 雷燕, whose artistic practice was shaped by a decades-long career in the Chinese military, began a period of transition through participation in a 2002 restaging of the Communist Red Army’s 1934 Long March as a multi-sited international art project. Her resulting encounter with US feminist art icon Judy Chicago raised questions about the potential neocolonial influence of global feminist art. The work Lei subsequently produced performs an autoethnographic excavation of the sociohistorical categories—woman soldier, military artist, and woman artist—that made her as both artist and woman. She works from within a national representational corpus, subjecting it to various experiments to reveal the fields of violence it has enacted from the Sino-Vietnamese War to the Great Sichuan earthquake. Lei Yan’s meditation through photography upon national, revolutionary iconography evolved into soft sculpture objects in cloth and paper. Their arrested ephemerality decenters the human subjec...
Experimental Beijing Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Throughout the many years it has taken me to research and write this book, the list of people to ... more Throughout the many years it has taken me to research and write this book, the list of people to whom I am indebted has grown in ways I could never have imagined at the outset. The traces of their intellect, imagination, generosity, and care weave through every aspect of what appears in these pages. I am humbled by the collective e ort that has sustained this endeavor and more aware than ever that knowledge and creativity are never singular pursuits. I, alone, remain responsible for any errors. First and foremost, I thank all of the art world participants-artists, assistants, teachers, students, curators, critics, and gallerists-who shared their lives and work with me, including those whose names and images appear in this book, as well as many others. I appreciate their generosity in time and spirit, often o ered before they could know I might be deserving of their trust. Those who responded with criticism and circumspection deepened my thinking and ethical commitments. Beyond those named within the text, I extend thanks to the following individuals. Song Changqing first opened my eyes. Chen Xi, Cui Xiuwen, Daozi, Feng Jiali, Lei Shuang, Tao Yongbai, and Yuan Yaomin guided my early inquiry. Zhang Zhaohui collaborated on interviews and invited me to review exhibits. Zheng Lianjie, Wei Shanghe, and Zha Ba included me as interlocutor in many memorable activities.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2006
... feminism, because a reconfigured version of nüxing has emerged in post-socialist China, and q... more ... feminism, because a reconfigured version of nüxing has emerged in post-socialist China, and questions ... sex desire and love played an integral role in the engendering of Chinese modernity. ... consciousness, draws from the past in order to face postsocialist China's normative po ...
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