Gender liberation and its offspring in China To understand how women have introduced a paradigm shift in the art world, we certainly have to go through the work of at least thirty-four artists and their artworks beginning the late sixties of the last century: Ana MendietaCarol JerremsCarolee SchneemannCharlotte MoormanChitra GaneshCindy ShermanDiana ArbusEva HesseFrancesca WoodmanFrida KahloGeorgia…

China AI, in conjunction with Big Data and Deep Data companies, is developing the ultimate achievement in algorithmic surveillance: “citizens score” (1). A simple QR code shared by the Chinese big whales of the Internet and the CCP may give them access to the entire commercial and social profile of any Chinese inhabitant. Are you…

I visited Shanghai in the late days of Winter 1999 with a purpose: to meet young Chinese artists from or living and working in Xangai (Portuguese spelling). I went to visit an old high-grade official art school as well as Shanghai leading architectural school, where I had a magnificent banquet cooked by a great chef….

What do we see? I think that in normal circumstances, we do see what we are looking for, or what is in the image bio-database of our brain. What is not mental is invisible to us. Human perception of the space around it is a bit by bit construction since humans leave their mother’s womb….

Sharing experience with electronic parts 分享用電子零件的心得 Uncut Any sound, any noise can be music. It all depends on the ear of the listener. If the listener is also a musician, or a sound designer, or an artist that plays with noise and sounds, then the universe of sounds can evolve like any organic entity. It…

I wonder how many artworks have a chance to keep direct contact with their voyeurs for long, as thousands of art pieces live inside boxes, either in the cellars of museums or in garage stores of collectors and traders. It would be implausible to physically show the number of authors and artworks needed to give…

The curator’s wish 策展人的愿望 Gen Y — The curator’s wish list is a panoramic overview of the creative intensity and diversity of Chinese artists born after 1980. In the present circumstances of the global pandemic crisis, it is above all a curatorial exercise of observation, documentation, sharing and virtual experience. I was born in Macau in…