From Still Life to the Screen
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation …
Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For
Essay contribution by T’ai Smith in Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, edited by Kathleen Nugent Mangan. Philadelphia : University of Arts ; Baltimore : Maryland Institute College of Art, 2013 Book information: Catalog of a collaborative exhibition held at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, December 7, 2012 through March 17, 2013, and The University […]
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in, eds. Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2013 Book information: The Northwest Coast of North America has long been recognized as one of the world’s canonical art zones. Since the mid-1700s, objects or “art” deriving from the Indigenous cultures of […]
Coquitlam Waterscapes
The catalogue for a solo exhibition published by Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC, Canada (2012). As a significant waterway in British Columbia, Coquitlam Lake is a watershed that serves as a source of drinking water for the Greater Vancouver Regional District. It is also the source of the Coquitlam River. The river, along with the […]
“When We Were Young” in Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-76
Gu Xiong, “When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages” in Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966-76, edited by Richard King, Ralph Crozier, Shengtian Zheng, and Scott Watson. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2010. Book information: The Cultural Revolution was a massive social and political upheaval resulting from a battle for […]
Waterscapes
The catalogue for a solo exhibition by Gu Xiong published by Richmond Art gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada (2010). Since the mid-19th century the Fraser and Yangtze rivers have connected migrants from around the world as China and Canada both became enmeshed in an emerging global economy. Starting with the migration of Chinese labourers to the […]
Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation …
The Printed Image in Early Modern England
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation, this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. The study differs from all other books on early modern British print culture in that it seeks […]
Modos de objectificação da dominação colonial : o caso do Museu do Dundo, 1940-1970
This text is an ethnographic analysis of the museum owned by the Diamang – The Diamonds Company of Angola, during the last decades of the Third Portuguese Empire. The Dundo Museum – which was developed from 1936 onwards by the Company – is the generative object of the inquiry to the self-reclaimed specificity of the […]
Red River
This is a 15-page catalogue of Gu Xiong’s solo exhibition, Red River, held at Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Red River was a multimedia installation. The following text is taken from the essay “Toward The New Frontier” by Petra Watson (the curator of this exhibition). “Gu Xiong’s four-channel video installation and photographs exhibited in Red River depict three rivers […]