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June 6th, 2010

Rong Rong on Chinese photography

(Posted 3 months ago)

Based on his experience of the submissions for the annual Three Shadows Photography Award, Rong Rong makes the following observations in an interview with Dan Edwards for RealTime Arts:

One thing I noticed is that everyone wanted to express their private selves. Unlike older photographic trends that were focussed on society or big topics, younger artists are focussed on their inner world.

This is certainly a strong trend in art-making here in China, something which I’ve been aware of ever since I arrived here, but it’s interesting to hear this from someone who has such a perspective on the recent history of Chinese photography.

Rong Rong (2009). Interviewed by Edwards, Dan. the nurturing of chinese photography. RealTime, issue #92 (Aug-Sept). [Online]. Available from http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue92/9557 [Accessed 6 June 2010]. Reproduced with permission.

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April 28th, 2010

Notes on Alternatives in China

(Posted 4 months, 1 week ago)

Some are artists setting up programs for themselves or their peers, others are fully-fledged companies offering a wide range of art services. All see themselves as “alternatives,” but what do they mean by that and how do they sit in relation to the Beijing art-world?

These brief notes on some “alternatives” in Beijing (and beyond) were inspired by a visit to one of the groups mentioned, TCA, which led me to question just what it meant to be “alternative,” what is “alternative” a reaction against and how do these organisations go about positioning themselves?

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November 4th, 2009

A map of my local area

(Posted 10 months, 1 week ago)

Beijing's Tuqiao Station and a map of the local area

This is the local area map that greets you should you exit the light-rail Batong line at its terminus, Tuqiao. This is the kind of impenetrable visual information that would have completely thrown me when I first came to China, something I would have generously ascribed to “cultural difference.” Now I know that it’s just a really bad map.

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August 28th, 2009

60th Anniversary Flypast (practice)

(Posted 1 year ago)

60th Anniversary Flypast

Every weekday for the past month or so we have been treated to this flypast of helicopters, along with jets and larger planes, all in formation and incredibly noisy.

IMAGE: Practice flypast for 60th Celebrations, originally uploaded by escdotdot

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