Course: Discovering Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China

In 2010 artists Li Juchuan and Li Yu initiated this project as a response to a controversial real estate project on the north shore of East Lake, the largest lake …

A number of artists created public installations and performances along the Funan River in Chengdu in 1995 to raise environmental consciousness. This event was organized by American artist Betsy Damon …

After watching the video above, please visit the “Moving Rainbow” page on seachina.net: If you are outside Mainland China: http://seachina.net/moving-rainbow If you are within Mainland China: http://cn.seachina.net/moving-rainbow We provide two …

After seeing three case studies, now let’s discuss some basic features of socially engaged art.

Wang Jiuliang took us to one of the landfills he photographed. We captured the site with a 360-degree camera. You can watch this 360-degree video on YouTube. Technical notes: (1) …

We interviewed Wang Jiuliang in Beijing in February 2016. In this excerpt, we asked him two questions: Why did he link photography to mapping? How did he decide to use …

Like New York and Mexico City, Beijing faces serious challenges in managing urban waste. From 2008 to 2010, photographer Wang Jiuliang visited more than 460 landfills in the suburbs of …

We interviewed Xiong Wenyun in May 2014, in her home in Chengdu. In this excerpt, we asked her three questions: How did this project get connected to environmental protection? How …

What is socially engaged art? Before we discuss this term, let’s look at three examples. The first case study is “Moving Rainbow” (1998-2001) created by artist Xiong Wenyun. This large-scale …