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Banned: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s controversial dog video

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

The video work titled Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other has only recently been removed from Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition series known as Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. The video series has been met with disapproval and disparagement not only by some art critics but animal lovers and welfare organizations as well. […]

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Why did the Danish artists Superflex flood McDonald’s?

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

In this short film, a life-size replica of a McDonald’s burger bar gets flooded with water gradually. There are images of furniture being washed away in the water, food floating around the room, and electric appliances short-circuit to a halt before space can no longer be seen below the water. While the production lacks the

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Shirin Neshat’s Rapture – Veiled women in traditional Islamic attire

Performances, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Rapture is a projection of black and white video where Iranian artist Shirin Neshat gives a narrative that concerns the differences between Muslim women and men. Neshat has used the video projection to explore the cultural and social role of women in the Islamic World and shot the work in Morocco with a cast that

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Zhang Huan – One of the most disgusting performance pieces ever made

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Zhang Huan is no stranger to controversy. Having attended school when China was undergoing a dramatic time in its history, Zhang learned a lot from the years of protests and demonstrations that would be staged in front of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. As an avid fan of Avant-garde art, Zhang did not really have adequate

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Yang Fudong’s dreamlike Fifth Night video

Photography, Video Art / 2 minutes of reading

China’s most well-known cinematographer and photographer, Yang Fudong, was born in Beijing, China, in 1971. He is also regarded by many as one of the greatest film writers to come out of China. However, his creativity spans far beyond that. Yang began training in painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou and

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Mariko Mori speaks w/ Public Delivery: Art can unite humanity

Interviews / 2 minutes of reading

Mariko Mori (森万里子): Art has the power to unite humanityWatch this video on YouTube Mariko Mori spoke with us about her work Ālaya, 2013. Transcript ‘Alaya’ was originally produced for the work of Dream Temple in 1999. It was one of the scenes that people see inside of Dream Temple. I wanted to reintroduce

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