Congratulations to our philosophy student Lv Dongkun who has just curated an exhibition in Shanghai, as part of the Shanghai International Art Festival (through a nation-wide competition)!
Curated by Dongkun Lyu and Lingli Chen, the exhibition “Fictitious Trade: Duplicating Stories without Bartering” was selected as the final exhibition of the “Rising Artists’ Works” (referred to as R.A.W) program of the China Shanghai International Art Festival. This exhibition reimagines the Silk Road’s cultural legacy in a contemporary context. Featuring works by six artists—Lihong Bai, Xinhao Cheng, Yixin Tong, Chenyu Mao, Yuling Qin, and Yuhang Wu—the exhibition unfolds in three thematic chapters. Old Crops and New Piastre, Regression and Approaching explore the trade route’s origins, examining the shifting meanings embedded in material transitions. Union of Botanists invites multi-sensory interactions and intersubjective affect with the flora, while Ethnography of Materials, Minstrels of Spirits uses multimedia to depict a transformative journey transcending anthropocentrism.
China Shanghai International Arts Festival (CSIAF) is a state-level comprehensive international arts festival hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China and organized by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.
Please stay tuned to other upcoming collaborations with dKunst art on campus:
We are having the east Asian women film festival 3rd and 10th Nov. together with two double bills: On the 3rd, Luka Yang Yuanyuan will bring her recent film Chinatown Chacha together with some of the actresses (70 – 80 years old Asian American former cabaret dancers of Chinatowns across the Americas)!; on the 10th He Zike a video-artist (she was in the Shanghai biennale I recently) will do a performance lecture about her recently discovered family history, of her great-grandmother in particular that links up the whole dramatic history of 20th century China, from cosmopolitan Shanghai 20s 30s to the rural Guizhou via Japanese-occupied Hong Kong.