Wu Hung

Here, the so-called self-talking way of creating suggests that we discover, in our daily life experience, the visual forms that are related to our personality, experiences and professional practive. A work made by the deceased Shanghai artist Chen Zhen greatly influenced me in this respect. This piece, in the form of an ancient Chinese musical instrumental bianzhong, is composed of wooden chamber pots in the old districts of Shanghai, with a mixed soundtrack of quotations from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book and of the washing of the chamber pots.'

(Abstract from catalogue by Wu Hong)… (mehr)

Catalogue for the exhibition "From Six Mile to Three Shadows-New Works by RongRong and inri" held at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Caochangdi, China), July 2008.

This title ties the exhibition to two places in Beijing's east suburbs: Lulitun-Six Mile Village-where the two artists lived together before this traditional village was demolished in 2003, and the Three Shadows Photoraphy Art Centre at Caochangdi, which they together established in 2006. In a general sense, the fate of these two places representes Beijing's ongoing destructio and construction as well as the rapid changes in contemporary Chinese art over the past five years.

(Abstract from foreward by curator Wu Hung)… (mehr)

Catalogue for a touring exhibition held at Sixth Gwangju Biennale (2006), Re-Imagining Asia in Germany and England (2007, 2008) and at MOMA (2009).

'A ritual is compromise of people, objects, and programmed activities; so is Waste Not, whose components include not only displayed objects but also the artists, the audience, and their interactions. Based on this understanding, my discussion in the first part of this essay will proceed from the project's properties to its goals, participants, and programs. The second part of the essay will contextualize "Waste Not" by connecting it to other artistic experiments conducted by Song Dong, and to a "domestic turn" in the development of contemporary art since the mid-1990s.'

(Abstract from Introduction by Wu Hung)… (mehr)