Wong Ping, Dear, can I give you a hand?, 2018 (detail), color video installation (with sound, 18 min., edition 1/3) with custom-modified LED panels, fiberglass and polyester resin with motor and LEDs, and plastic wind-up toys with spray paint and metal foil. Thus, the aim of the show becomes double-fold: to not only present a diverse array of artistic practices from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and beyond, but also shed light on the myriad of ways that technology shapes the formation of identity and awareness of reality in a global setting. There has also been a tendency in recent years for Western liberal media to paint China’s scientific and technological advances in homogeneous ways, fixating almost exclusively on its quantum race, lack of data privacy, and the autocratic application of AI-enhanced surveillance systems. It is especially devoted to dispelling the notion that the latter is thematically consistent, aesthetically exotic, or essentially categorizable. Indeed, the initiative’s curatorial objective has been clear from the outset, that is, to radically de-center the West’s perception of contemporary Chinese art. Whereas Tales of Our Time focuses on political territory, this current iteration zooms in on technology and its impact on society and individual subjectivity. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, the theme of One Hand Clapping is very different from its predecessors. Dimensions variableĬurators of contemporary Chinese art abroad often face many challenges. Cao Fei, Asia One, 2018 (detail), multichannel color video installation, with sound.
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