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LIQUIDITY
Josh Kline, Forever 27, 2013, single-channel HD video, 16 min, 304.8 x 119.4 x 14.6 cmCourtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York In a recent Guardian article about the fundamental chemical weirdness of...
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MASSAGE CHAIRS
Dora Budor, Mental Parasite Retreat 1 , cyborg chest prosthetics, Dragon Skin silicone, cinema chair,plastic, foam, animatronics, assorted hardware, 105 x 70 x 72 cmCourtesy the artist and New Galerie,...
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OUR MODERN TOTEMS
Guan Xiao, The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture, 2012, installation Primitivism is a product of modernity. Modern master Pablo Picasso’s work between 1906 and 1909 drew on African tribal masks, Paul...
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PAUL CHAN: ENTHUSIASM TRAP
New Lovers book series, 2015, Badlands Unlimited, New York Every two years, the Guggenheim Museum administers the Hugo Boss Prize. Funded by the eponymous German clothing company, the prize is...
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LATEX FETISH
Diandaozhongsheng2017, a well-known personality in China’s bondage subculture, posts images like this one to his Weibo. A latex or rubber fetish—in Beijing often called “catfish” after a particular...
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NAILS
Models displaying Metaverse Nails Nail art has a long history in China. As early as 3000 BCE, royals combined gum arabic, gelatin, beeswax, egg whites, and crushed flower petals to lacquer their...
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ROOMBA
Nadim Abbas, Zone I, 2014, Roomba, spherical concrete sculptures, dimensions variable American technology company iRobot launched its cleaning robot, the Roomba, in 2002; by 2012, more than ten million...
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THE GARO ERA
Sanpei Shirato, Ninja Bugeichō, 1959-1962 One of the best-known creatives to emerge from the turmoil of postwar Japan—a time marked by leftist resentment of capitalism as well as increasing openness...
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SAILOR MOON
Jeanette Hayes, “DeMooning” series Considering social media her sketchbook and GIFs a material, Jeanette Hayes has a particular penchant for Sailor Moon, whose image she superimposes onto her own...
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SELFIE
DIS Magazine’s #artselfie project on Instagram The selfie is more than just a photograph of the face or body—it is a body of information, and of idealized self-realization. The selfie allows for the...
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KOKI TANAKA: A VULNERABLE NARRATOR
Provisional Studies: Workshop #1,“1946-52 Occupation Era and 1970 Between Man and Matter”Action, workshop, video documentation, December 6-7, 2014, Kyoto Municipal Museum of ArtCourtesy the artist Koki...
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SEX DOLLS
Laurie Simmons, The Love Doll/ Day 22 (20 Pounds of Jewellery), 2010, Fuji matte print, 177.8 x 133.4 cm Against all odds, life-size dolls have become a repeating theme in popular culture. In a...
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SHANZHAI
Shanzhai Biennial No. 1, Beijing Design Week, 2012 Courtesy Shanzhai Biennial Shanzhai is neither an Instagram geotag nor a city in China hosting a biennial— despite our multiple efforts to make this...
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SOCKETS
Jana Euler, Where the energy comes from 1, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 210 x 210 cmCourtesy the artist and dépendance, Brussels In 1915, the American Modernist magazine 291 published a collection of...
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ON WANG YIN: TOWARDS A POOR PAINTING
Untitled, 2014, oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cm When you turn on the television in China and flick through some channels, chances are you’ll happen upon several TV series set in Republican-era China. This...
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TAOBAO AESTHETICS
Taobao is China’s largest online shopping site. Similar to eBay, Taobao facilitates consumer-to-consumer retail, and is known for listing practically everything there is to buy. Launched just 12 years...
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A DOOR BETWEEN DIMENSIONS: HA BIK CHUEN AND THE ARCHIVE AS PRACTICE
Performance view of Ricky Yeung, “Out of Context,” 1987, 15 Kennedy Road, Hong KongCourtesy Asia Art Archive A small-scale exhibition, “Excessive Enthusiasm: Ha Bik Chuen and the Archive as Practice”...
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TEAPOT
Yu Honglei, Teapot, 2014, Sculpture, stainless steel and paint, 55 x 50 x 70 cm In the ubiquitous three-dimensional modeling and rendering software 3ds Max, the humble teapot is among about a dozen...
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XIE NANXING: BESIEGED BY MATERIAL
Portrait No. 1, 2012, oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm More than once I have asked Xie Nanxing to explain the secret magic behind his painting. When we struggle to find some guiding principle behind the...
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TECHNOSENSUAL
Alisa Baremboym, 6-D (detail), 2013, Ceramic, archival pigment inks on silk, USB cable withgender changer, bent steel, black pipe, 101.6 x 38.1 x 52.1 cmCourtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New YorkPHOTO:...
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