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Yishu- Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Volume 6, Number 3, Fall/September 2007
Contemporary Art in Greater China: Under Pressure. 52nd Venice Biennale. documenta 12. Artist Features: Mo Yi, Zhang Jian Jun, Gao Brothers, Liang Shaoji. Interview with Wang Peng. And much more...
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Volume 6, Number 2, Summer/June 2007
Venice Biennale Preview. Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contrmporary Art. Interviews with Wang Wei, Xu Bing, Simon Groom, and Karen Smith. Censorship in Shanghai. Arrivals and Departures: New Perspectives on Hong Kong Art. And much more...

 

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Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/March 2007

A tribute to Jonathan Napack. Taipei Biennial 2006. Documenta 12 Magazines Special Feature on Education. Interviews with Cai Guo-Qiang, Shen Yuan, Ed Pien. And much more...


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Volume 5, Number 4, Winter/December 2006
A feature on the Singapore and Shanghai Biennales. documenta 12 magazines special feature on education including a discussion on the new trend in Graduate Programs in Art and Culture in Taiwan. Interviews with Samuel Kung (Chairman and Director of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art), and Cao Fei. Reviews of the art of Luis Chan as well as Kaern Smith's Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art n New China. And much more...
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Volume 5, Number 3, Fall/September 2006

a special issue for the documenta 12 magazines project . Yishu have been invited to participate in this collective editorial project linking over seventy print and online periodicals worldwide as well as other media. documenta 12 magazines focuses on three key questions: Is Modernity our Antiquity? What is Bare Life? and What is to be Done (Education)? Yishu will be exploring aspects of education and this issue, guest edited by Philip Tinari and David Tung, is devoted to the Yan’an Forum on Art Education organized by Cai Guo-Qiang and Lu Jie and presented as part of the Long March Project, Yan’an, Shaanxi province.

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Volume 5, Number 2, Summer/June 2006
Analyses of the social, economic, and cultural transformation
that is taking place in China today, as exemplified by the proceedings of the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and the symposium titled Cultural Memory held at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. The folowing artists are featured: Tang Maohong, Michael Cherney, Qin Yufen, Hong Hao, Shi Jinsong, and Robert Majzels.
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Volume 5, Number 1, Spring/March 2006
In-depth special feature on recent exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art that reveals directions that curators are generating in presentation, interpretation, and understanding of artistic production by Chinese artists. Features on artists Xing Danwen, Qui Ping, Feng Mengbo, and Lin Dahong. Exhibitions reviewed include Lu Hao at the Goedhuis Contemporary, China Trade at Centre A in Vancouvcer, andf the San Diego Museum of Art's Zooming into Focus in Beijing.
 
 
Volume 4, Number 4, Winter/December 2005
Explores the art scene in Hong Kong. Essay by Martina
Köppel-Yang discussing the position of Chinese art internationally. Wu Hung and Patricia Karetzky bring updated perspectives on the work Gu Wenda and Zhang Dali. Biljan Ciric interviews Uli Sigg, an influential collector of contemporary art from China. Xu Bing is featured with an interview, an overview of a one day symposium on his work, and a discussion of his video work, Dynamic Desktop.
 
 
Volume 4, Number 3, Fall/September 2005
In-depth coverage of the Venice Biennale: Chinese Artists and the 51st Venice Biennale;, China’s spectacular Emersion versus the spectres of bureaucracy looming in Taiwan, the Singaporean art of deconstructing national symbols, wordless dialogue from
Hong Kong or greater China at the 2005 Venice Biennale; and much more.
Interviews with Wang Du and Philip Dodd. Zhang Linhai artist feature. Recent event reviews and curatorial notes.
 
 
Volume 4, Number 2, Summer/June 2005
Coverage of an international conference Displacements: Transcultural Encounters in Contemporary Chinese Art held at Stanford University in conjunction with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts exhibition On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West. A transcript of a silent movie by Zhou Tiehai: WILL.
 
 
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring/March 2005
New Approaches to Exhibitions in China: including a Dialogue with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru on the 2nd Guangzhou Triennial. Interviews with Michael Lin and Hu Jieming. Artist Features include Tiande and Yin Xiuzhen. An in-depth look at three generations of Taiwanese art.
 
 
Volume 3, Number 4, Winter/December 2004
Taiwan: Artists, Exhibitions, and Institutions - a special section featuring topics in Taiwan Art. Interview feature with Cai Yuan and JJ Xi. An indepth look at the Shanghai Biennale. Reviews of Ai Weiwei at Robert Miller Gallery, a look at the Gwangju Biennale, and The Dao of Wei Jane Chir.
 
 
Volume 3, Number 3, Fall/September 2004
Intersection: An Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Photography and Oil Painting. Eccentric Notes on Dissent: The Art of Zhu Wei. Mutations <> Connections: Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas. An Interview with Yang Fudong.
 
 
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer/June 2004
About Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. An International Discourse on New Chinese Video
and Photography at the San Diego Museum of Art. Envisioning the Future of Contemporary Art from Different Glocal Positions: Symposium at the China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Interview with Young Hay
 
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring/March 2004
Special Feature on the Pearl River Delta: From the Heart of Canton. The Ostentatious Pearl River Delta. The Fifth System as New Psychological Spaces. Edges of the Earth Symposium: The Syndrome of Asia. Earth Link and Cosmic Time.
Volume 2, Number 4, Winter/December 2003

A section on Gu Wenda: From Middle Kingdon to Biological Millenium. A survey of China Reinvented - the art of overseas Chinese artists in the United States. An essay on the art of Emily Cheng. A discussion of contemporary Chinese photography. Review of the inaugural Beijing Biennale.

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Volume 2, Number 3, Fall/September 2003

A feature section on women artists that includes an essay on women's art in Hong Kong. An analytical essay on the prospects of Chinese Contemporary Art that draws on the impressions from the latest Venice Biennale. Also features Hans Ulrich Obrist Camera Interviews series that includes conversations with Chang Yung Ho, Wang Jianwei, and Yang Fudong. In addition, includes the Long March feature as well as reviews by Jonathan Goodman.

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Volume 2, Number 2, Summer/June 2003

Chinese participation in the 50th Venice Biennale. Coverage includes reviews and essays by Shu-min Lin, Fan Di'an, Hou Hanru, Lin Yilin, Ou Ning, and more. Ken Lum documents his interview with Hou Hanru. Among other contents: a discussion on the influence of contemporary art on architectural spaces, and essay on art in Hong Kong, and a comprehencive section on Asian Contemporary Art. Also included are reviews of Chamber Fine Art and Miguel Trelles at Taller Boricua.

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Volume 2, Number 1, Spring/March 2003

Special issue on Contemporary Taiwan Art. Inside you will find a review of 2002 Taipei Biennial, essays on Taiwan art after 1945, Taiwanese artist profiles, and more...

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Volume 1, Number 3, Fall/November 2002

Includes a discussion on Chinese experimental art in 1990s, an overwiew of contemporary Taiwanese art, a look at globalization, urbanization and New Chinese Art, a collection of essays on the Long March Project, and more...

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Volume 1, Number 2, Summer/August 2002

Includes an essay on Taiwan's contemporary art in the post-martial-law era, an essay on political aspirations in art production concerning China's Cultural Revolution, and more...

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Volume 1, Number 1, Spring/May 2002

Inaugural issue. Contains views on contemporary Chinese art by a panel of established academics and artists, a curator's account of a trip to China, an article on life and art of Cai Guoquiang, an academic essay on Quian Zhongshu, an interview with Song Dong, reviews of recent contemporary Chinese art events, and more...

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