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 […]
Germaine Koh: Overflow
Overflow was a flexible, changing installation of glass bottles that responded to the architecture, socio-geographic location and history of Centre A’s Downtown Eastside space. It developed during the months before the opening, with the gallery participating in one of the more visible unofficial economies of the neighbourhood — the recuperation and redemption of bottles from […]
Ical Krbbr Prodly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra
Michael Krebber, Ical Krbbr Prodly Prsnts Gart Jas, Jon Klsy, Josf Stra [Michael Krebber proudly presents Gareth James, John Kelsey, Josef Strau]. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007 Book information: A bridge, an ellipsis, a sudden trailing off, the title of this exhibition, etc, the … might also be the blub blub blub of […]
Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art
John O’Brian and Peter White, eds. Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007 Book information: “The great purpose of landscape art is to make us at home in our own country” was the nationalist maxim motivating the Group of Seven’s artistic project. The empty […]