The Culture Industry and the Propaganda Factory
The Culture Industry and the Propaganda Factory is a complete rewrite of Roald Dahl’s classic book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, reimagining Dahl’s book as an absurdist fairytale overlayed on top of and intertwining with Dahl’s original illustrated narrative. When Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in 1964, it was severely criticized by […]
Bauhaus Weaving Theory
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A Journey Exposed
A Journey Exposed (2014) is a collection of artworks in which Gu Xiong uses repeated exposure of our memories to gain new insights, with the struggle between individuality and globalization as a central theme. Crushed Coca-Cola Cans symbolizes rebirth as the mass-produced can, in the process of being destroyed, finds a new life as a […]
Germaine Koh: Weather Systems
Germaine Koh is a Vancouver-based artist whose work relates natural and human systems by focusing on the inter-relatedness of conditions in the built and natural environment. Koh’s work often links the space of the gallery with the outside environment or actively intervenes in the institution to reveal tensions between the public and private realms. Through […]
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 […]