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Beijing Xingwei
Meiling Cheng
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Description for Beijing Xingwei
Paperback. From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the years has invigorated contemporary global art movements. The author shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 420 pages, 100 colour plates, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 196 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1130.
From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In Beijing Xingwei, Meiling Cheng engages with artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in the post-Deng era. Beijing Xingwei - itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium - contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, ... Read more
From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In Beijing Xingwei, Meiling Cheng engages with artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in the post-Deng era. Beijing Xingwei - itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium - contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
SB - Enactments
Condition
New
Number of Pages
510
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420879
SKU
V9780857420879
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About Meiling Cheng
Born and raised in Taiwan, Meiling Cheng is a noted performance art critic and poet and has published widely in both English and Chinese. She is associate professor in the School of Theatre at the University of Southern California and the author of In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art.
Reviews for Beijing Xingwei
"Will be a must read for anyone studying performance.... Meiling Cheng is a brilliant and original thinker and writes with a lively, engaged, and engaging poetic style through which she attempts to enact the very passion and performativity that she explores in her objects of study." (Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the Subject)"