Joël Andrianomearisoa is 20. He hasn’t had time to have a professional past yet, but he does have a past, even though his young teenage body could lead you to believe otherwise. At the age of 20 you know how to refuse, especially when circumstances and your own desires give you a step back from […]

I graduated high school in 2001 and from there achieved my associate’s degree in graphic design/digital graphics in 2003 from a local community college. Immediately afterward I began my bachelor of arts degree at New Mexico State University, but stopped after one year for many reasons. Since experimenting with film photography as a teenager and […]

Showtime is meant as a series of events that will happen every two months in Shanghai inviting artists to explore possibilities of performance art under different themes that myself and artists find important after discussions. Performance art as a main activator of new ideas through development of Chinese contemporary art in the last ten years […]

Avi Davis: This will be an interview about art generated (largely) by interviews. So we’re operating with the ghosts of a lot of interviews looking over our shoulders. Did you ever feel like this was a commentary on the interview form, that the art is interviewing (or interrogating or commenting on) the interview that generated […]

It took Qu Zhi-Hang eight years to finish the series See and Be Seen. It seems kind of random and ridiculous that this group of work has attracted so much attention in 2008, a special period of time that belongs to China. With much contemplation, however, one would realize the randomness is inevitable. It’s a […]

Agnès Pezeu meets me with a wide smile, her long golden hair flowing. Her studio has the shape of a half moon. Canvases are hung like tapestries; others are rolled on the floor. She pulls out of the shelf her sketchbook. A series of heads drawn in charcoal appears on the page. In an ample […]

This year, aside from my collaborative projects, I have been making black photographs. The photographs are printed black from 4-by-5 negatives. Although no image can be seen in the print, the content is described in the titles: Woman Waiting (referencing a Faith Wilding piece), Two Friends at Home (referencing a Diane Arbus photograph of lesbians), […]

Contemporary art in Guizhou usually impresses viewers as “bizarre,” “neurotic,” and “whimsical.” People consider Guizhou as a place where there are no great artists. This is partly because Guizhou is located in the mountainous area southwest of China, which makes it difficult to reach, hence the lack of cultural exchange with the rest of the […]

I shall be honest; I never was interested in photography in any form two years ago. I would look at a photo, perhaps in a magazine, on a billboard, but didn’t look any further than the image itself. I didn’t know any photographers, and didn’t go to galleries. However, I’ve always been interested in women, […]

The souls of the pity are the souls of people who died prematurely: the warriors on the battlefield, the resentful women who lived in the closed palace, and the children who died prematurely. The pitiful souls of these people are in the circle of a samsara. My new piece, The Souls of Premature Death 2, […]