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From cannibalism to light calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In Beijing Xingwei, Meiling Cheng engages with artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in the post-Deng era. Beijing Xingwei - itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium - contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, "Beijing Xingwei" provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles Art styles not defined by date

• Full title: Beijing Xingwei
• Author: Meiling Cheng
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 510
• EAN: 9780857420879
• ISBN: 0857420879
• ID: 02537451
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Weight: 1130 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 196 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. February 2014

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