Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art
Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art by Meiling Cheng, published by Seagull Books in 2013, is an illustrated volume comprising 486 pages. This book explores the diverse and provocative realm of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years, highlighting its impact on contemporary global art movements. Cheng examines various artworks that reflect China’s rapid transformations in the post-Deng era, addressing themes such as social, economic, and cultural changes.
Readers will find a critical engagement with artworks that range from the unconventional to the thought-provoking, including topics like cannibalism, light-calligraphy, and the interplay between art and commodification. Cheng’s work not only presents these artistic expressions but also contemplates the challenges of creating ephemeral and performance-based art for a global audience. Through this exploration, Beijing Xingwei invites readers to consider how art can shape our understanding of time and creativity in a fast-paced world.
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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 such artworks created to mark China’s rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its 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, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, Beijing Xingwei provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.
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