Germaine Koh
This book was published in 2001 by the Contemporary Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition, Germaine Koh at the the Contemporary Art Gallery in its new facility at 555 Nelson Street, May 4 – July 14, 2001. This publication features a forward by Keith Wallace, and essay “Immanent Domain” by Laura U. Marks. […]
Sign after the x
“X” is one of the most provocative representations in contemporary culture: a symbol of capital, power, waste, and illicit desire. Based on the connection between language and the lack thereof, Sign after the x investigates the letter “X” that is used in our culture as part of a complex sign system that encompasses the evolution of language […]
Drowning
A 17-page catalogue published by the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, featuring Gu Xiong’s solo exhibition. In Drowning, an expanded version of the exhibition, The Mirror; A Return to China (Yukon Art Centre, 1999), Gu Xiong poetically links the personal trauma of this boating accident, in particular the near drowning of his daughter Gu Yu, […]
Ding Ho, Group of 7
Andrew Hunter and Gu Xiong, Ding Ho, Group of 7. Kleinburg, ON: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2000 Book information: A 60-page catalogue published by McMichael Canadian Art Collection, featuring Gu Xiong’s mixed media installation in collaboration with Andrew Hunter. This collaborative installation by Vancouver artist Gu Xiong and Dundas, Ontario-based artist and curator Andrew Hunter includes […]
Waste Management
This exhibition of sculpture, photography, drawing and installation takes a speculative look at how several up-and-coming artists recycle the disposable aspects of contemporary culture. This younger generation makes new use of the residual value from discarded art practices of preceding generations, from the transient pleasures of popular genres, and from the mundane objects and events […]
The River
Gu Xiong’s installation “The River” is described by John O’Brian as a meditation on migrancy and displacement. The author situates the work within the life of the artist, who left China because of political oppression, and the history of the Canadian West, which has marginalized its Chinese inhabitants. Short poetic texts by Gu Xiong in […]
Angola a preto e branco: Fotografia e ciência no Museu do Dundo, 1940-1970
When it comes to distributing scientific knowledge, photography and the museum share a number of characteristics. One like the other operate by selection, fragmenting the real. They proceed by composition, regrouping, in printed albums or in the confined space of a shop window, room or building, the fragments they produce. Both are mediators of something […]
Germaine Koh: Personal
Although this catalogue is produced on the occasion of Germain Koh’s exhibition Personal, its scope exceeds that of the show and provides a context for the ephemeral projects in relation to the artist’s larger practice. Jan Allen’s essay identifies threads of continuity in Koh’s work and examines the ways in which these projects reflect and […]
The Yellow Pear
Gu Xiong came to Canada from China to find freedom and a new life, but with it came the uneasy feeling of being a stranger in a strange land, with customs, attitudes, and ways of living far different from what he and his family had known in China. The Yellow Pear is a collection of […]