https://sueannchen.com/writing daily 1.0 2025-09-12 https://sueannchen.com/writing/the-graven-image-alexandra-peters-the-warrnambool-art-gallery-exhibition-review-memo-review monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/29e4f46e-a966-4efe-b4b9-9938243eb7b6/figure3_ap_2_300dpi.jpg Writing - “The Graven Image | Alexandra Peters” The Warrnambool Art Gallery Exhibition Review | MeMo Review - Make it stand out Installation view, Alexandra Peters, The Graven Image, 2025, The Warrnambool Art Gallery. Top: Alexandra Peters, Sunset Clause, 2025, acrylic, pigment and water-based ink with screen-print medium and paste on vinyl, 200 x 360 cm (3 panels, each 200 x 120 cm). Middle: Alexandra Peters, Foreign Line Extracation V (Overture), 2025, acrylic, vinyl, polyurethane ‘open cell’ foam, ductile iron, pine, steel, enamel, 27 x 460 x 38 cm. Below: Alexandra Peters, Polity (Latent State), 2025, acrylic with screen-print medium and paste on leatherette, pine, steel, enamel, 100 x 650 x 120 cm. Courtesy of The Warrnambool Art Gallery https://sueannchen.com/writing/thatsentertainment monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/2f207024-7ac1-48c2-8e45-96e4f59c9221/Animal-House-3-1024x683.jpg Writing - “That’s Entertainment!” Animal House Exhibition Review for Un Extended - Make it stand out Installation view, That's Entertainment!, Animal House, 2024. Photo: Matthew Ware. https://animalhousefinearts.com/ https://sueannchen.com/writing/discipline-paper-08 monthly 0.5 2024-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/2e38647b-df89-4df8-af21-12e23a792e14/IMG_5701.JPG Writing - Discipline Paper 08: Graffiti and Cosplay: Regional Methods of Adapting to China’s Urbanisation in the 2000s - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/04dd371a-66f6-48a8-a749-7a883001d34f/Discipline+Paper+08+Sueann+Chen+Graffiti+and+Cosplay%3A+Regional+Methods+of+Adapting+to+China%E2%80%99s+Urbanisation+in+the+2000s Writing - Discipline Paper 08: Graffiti and Cosplay: Regional Methods of Adapting to China’s Urbanisation in the 2000s - Make it stand out If you are interested, please purchase and support directly through Discipline : https://www.discipline.net.au/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/a4123311-d135-4a41-98ab-c1fb1c07f2a8/IMG_7727.jpg Writing - Discipline Paper 08: Graffiti and Cosplay: Regional Methods of Adapting to China’s Urbanisation in the 2000s - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://sueannchen.com/writing/salvaging-hybridity monthly 0.5 2024-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273068188-HKABJYHX56MYFGZM9MP4/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.51.31.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273074947-9OXAVH6IN69OL7KG2ZEI/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.51.41.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273099375-9PXAY2Z8PK6QJ5RAGGMR/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.51.49.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273100492-JMSR8A51S686QLKFSBJQ/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.51.56.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273126634-J59I8H1J4CKYTQP8HLXP/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.52.04.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273126909-P3K8FKEJGY75IRLWJKNX/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.52.12.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273145534-TYG6T1W1DYXEM91YEXV3/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.52.18.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273137798-SRNFO58SSEKJL1RQ0M0L/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.52.33.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1732273145985-XAX0WUKXN5YT1EUL8DRI/Screenshot+2024-11-22+at+21.53.11.png Writing - Salvaging Hybridity: Reimagining ‘Chineseness’ within the Global Art Arena https://sueannchen.com/writing/insideout-speculative-exhibition-2022 monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/3c3739f6-f41f-40c3-9e8e-9c5b6fb62845/image-asset.png Writing - “Inside/Out” : A Speculative Exhibition between White Rabbit Gallery and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art - Make it stand out Image of “Inside/Out” (2022) self-binded publication. Containing a speculative catalogue essay, annotated list of artworks and programming, floor plans and annotated bibliography. Please email me for a physical or digital copy of the publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/3dbba0c1-7bfc-478e-bf6b-309ea7f72e8f/Screen+Shot+2023-02-21+at+10.14.18+pm.png Writing - “Inside/Out” : A Speculative Exhibition between White Rabbit Gallery and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art - Make it stand out Installation View of “Inside/Out“ (2022) at MADA NOW 2022 Grad Show in Monash University. Image credit and photography: Andrew Curtis and MADA. https://sueannchen.com/writing/globalmobilisationinthecaseofcontemporarychineseart monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658298548038-K7Z2TZKTBPMBBMRV5LNE/Huang-Yong-Ping-The-History-of-Chinese-Painting-and-A-Concise-History-of-Modern-Painting-Washed-in-a-Washing-Machine-for-Two-Minutes-1987-reconstructed-1993-1.jpeg Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 2. Huang, Yong Ping. The History of Chinese Art and A Concise History of Modern Painting Washed in the Washing Machine for Two Minutes 《中国绘画史》和《现代绘画简史》在洗衣机里搅拌了两分钟. 1987. Installation, Chinese tea crate, paper pulp, glass, 76.8 x 48.3 x 69.9 cm. I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658299774508-08M7CC0EU43KOMCGDEHQ/Huang-Yong-Ping-%E2%80%93-Theater-of-the-World-19871993-scaled.jpeg Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 6. Huang, Yong Ping. Theatre of the World. 1993/2017. Mixed media installation, Wood and metal structure with warming lamps, electric cable, insects (spiders, scorpions, crickets, cockroaches, black beetles, stick insects, centipedes), lizards, toads, and snakes, 150 x 170 x 265 cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658298413045-2A3U1NBZR4ZZEG8V4WVI/Huang-Yong-Ping-%E2%80%93-Theater-of-the-World-19871993-scaled.jpeg Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 1. Huang, Yong Ping. Theatre of the World. 1993/2017. Mixed media installation, Wood and metal structure with warming lamps, electric cable, insects (spiders, scorpions, crickets, cockroaches, black beetles, stick insects, centipedes), lizards, toads, and snakes, 150 x 170 x 265 cm. Figure 1. Installation view, “Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Georges Pompidou and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. Accessed 6th April 2021. https:// www.artforum.com/print/201403/making-art-global-45287 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658299323815-AVMY58AASDJF9MY9OFH9/20180116022400_9486.gif Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 4. Xu, Bing. Square Word Calligraphy Classroom《英文方块字书法入门》. 1994-1996. Mixed-media installation; instructional video, model books, copybooks, ink, brushes, brush stands, blackboard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658299878614-PNPA26P1KY0UFPYBFB9W/image.jpeg Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 7. Below: Huang, Yong Ping. Theatre of the World. 1993/2017. Mixed media installation, wood and metal structure with warming lamps, insects and animals removed, 150 x 170 x 265 cm. Above: Huang, Yong Ping. The Bridge, 1995, painted steel structure with bronze wire mesh, wood, warming lamps, electric cable, found faux-bronze figurines (patinized and painted), insects and animals removed, 320 x 1200 x 180 cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658299101177-BUE36J3YCJ2RDZUXDALZ/20180224060619_1137.jpeg Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 3. Xu, Bing. Case of Transference 《一个转换案例的研究》. 1994. Performative mixed media installation with ink, pigs, and books. Installation view. Xu, Bing. Case of Transference 《一个转换案例的研究》. 1994. Performative mixed media installation with ink, pigs, and books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658299509881-X7I6OK9M95TZ0MO9TR9I/Screen+Shot+2022-06-12+at+1.07.58+am.png Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 5. Xu, Bing. Square Word Calligraphy Classroom《英文方块字书法入门. 1994-1996. Mixed-media installation; instructional video, model books, copybooks, ink, brushes, brush stands, blackboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1658300066423-Y1LCW4HVY4R65HTWJ137/Screen+Shot+2022-06-11+at+1.00.15+am.png Writing - Global Mobilisation in the case of Contemporary Chinese Art in the 1980s-1990s - Figure 8. Huang Yong Ping, Vomit Bag, 2017, written statement, ink on airplane sick bag. Collection of Guggenheim Museum. This written statement and reflection was written on the plane by Huang after he found out his performative work “Theatre of the World” was censored by animal rights protesters https://sueannchen.com/writing/exhibition-text-copper-spun-lims monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1649598731635-8RFV58UMY3XU2HUY2PQW/TEXT+1.png Writing - Exhibition Text : “Copper Spun Limbs”, Yvette James exhibited at SEVENTH Gallery 2022 - Make it stand out Sueann Chen, 2022, Exhibition Text for “Copper Spun Limbs” , Yvette James, SEVENTH Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1649598929230-5F7YL30PE4N8GE45A56I/Screen+Shot+2022-04-10+at+11.55.02+pm.png Writing - Exhibition Text : “Copper Spun Limbs”, Yvette James exhibited at SEVENTH Gallery 2022 - Make it stand out Sueann Chen, 2022, Exhibition Text for “Copper Spun Limbs” , Yvette James, SEVENTH Gallery. https://sueannchen.com/writing/exhibition-text-at-last-the-sky monthly 0.5 2022-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1649598165753-YLX49PYAMT70XB68EMFM/Screen+Shot+2022-04-10+at+11.41.11+pm.png Writing - Exhibition Text : “At Last ! The Sky!” - Rory Maley shown at Wethouse March 2022 - Make it stand out Sueann Chen, 2022, Exhibition Text for “At Last! The Sky!” , Rory Maley, Wethouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1649596814618-AYHX52UWSRHIW118QAWV/AtLast-TheSky-ExhibitionText1.png Writing - Exhibition Text : “At Last ! The Sky!” - Rory Maley shown at Wethouse March 2022 - Make it stand out Sueann Chen, 2022, Exhibition Text for “At Last! The Sky!” , Rory Maley, Wethouse. https://sueannchen.com/writing/massmemoreview monthly 0.5 2022-03-02 https://sueannchen.com/writing/revisiting-magiciens-de-la-terre monthly 0.5 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1624276111010-XJ36L7E7S151571E7S4F/Screen+Shot+2021-04-06+at+6.32.54+pm.png Writing - Revisiting “Magiciens de la Terre” with Rasheed Araeen through the lens of multicultural exhibition making - Figure 2. Installation view of the exhibition “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, September 19, 1984–January 15, 1985. Accessed 6th April 2021. https://www.moma.org/ interactives/moma_through_time/1980/the-infamous-primitivism-exhibition/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1624275973980-UZMIFDORYUALN8QKXSQW/article_430x.jpeg Writing - Revisiting “Magiciens de la Terre” with Rasheed Araeen through the lens of multicultural exhibition making - Figure 1. Installation view, “Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Georges Pompidou and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. Accessed 6th April 2021. https:// www.artforum.com/print/201403/making-art-global-45287 Figure 1. Installation view, “Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Georges Pompidou and La Grande Halle, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin. Accessed 6th April 2021. https:// www.artforum.com/print/201403/making-art-global-45287 https://sueannchen.com/writing/cities-on-the-move monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595839220618-F6TU7DK22293IG4Z3SUZ/Screen+Shot+2020-07-27+at+6.36.11+pm.png Writing - “Cities on the Move”(1997-1999) | How Hou Hanru exemplifies the moments of Contemporary Asian Art curating as it grapples with globalisation in the 1990’s Figure 1. Heri Dono, Inner City, 1997, and Liew Kung Yu, Pasti Boleh/Sure You Can , 1997, installation view for Cities on the Move exhibition, Secession Vienna, 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595839271447-JFGJRN0B33X2FQQVRU33/Screen+Shot+2020-07-27+at+6.36.03+pm.png Writing - “Cities on the Move”(1997-1999) | How Hou Hanru exemplifies the moments of Contemporary Asian Art curating as it grapples with globalisation in the 1990’s Figure 2. Liew Kung Yu, Pasti Boleh/Sure You Can, 1997, installation view for Cities on the Move exhibition, Secession Vienna, 1997. https://sueannchen.com/writing/exhibitionreviewthen monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595485539587-GBJ8KDUP8WJGQS4PAZVL/THEN_Xu-Zhen_Calm.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - XU ZHEN®, Calm, 2009, waterbed, carpet, bricks Image Courtesy: White Rabbit Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595484850527-20OSCWV2RED4AA2U3JAA/THEN_Zhang-Dali.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - Zhang DaLi, Chinese Offspring, 2005, fibre-reinforced plastic, automotive paint, acrylic paint Image Courtesy White Rabbit Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595486786903-XEJ5K6MZVHM6LWBQF31S/IMG_0724.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - Zhao XiaoHu, Even in Fear, 2008, weather balloon, pump https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595484721899-A1NIFAI93OVLHPV0NDQZ/b4ab99c655ddbeea710db04394fb66f8.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - Foreground: Jiao Xingtao, Green Diary, 2007, fibreglass Background: Shen Liang, This is a book, 2007, oil on canvas Image Courtesy White Rabbit Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595487482074-K29KTKPFIKITFQ0LQD26/then_0009_20190910_DSF5675.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery Left: Zhu Yiqing, Xue Yongjun, Made in China - Chinese Flag 2, 2009, oil on canvas Right: Chen YanYin, 1949 - The Young Pioneers of Communist China, 2010, bronze Image Courtesy: White Rabbit Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595487022986-RFVT8S5C1Y765310IP51/7d433b1df75b7f7fe226619cdc3cae6a.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - Chen WenLing, Red Memory— Smile, 2007, bronze Image Courtesy: Kimberley Low from Broadsheet Sydney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595486458098-FRTF1TIZ6FRCPNEBCHQM/4b3ba9afe78916727ba053041b72cec2.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - Zhang HaiEr, Portrait Series , 2005, chromogenic photo prints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595486308189-0Z1IVVYP337P2347N5C9/a4975f8a3303b29ebd2c23e548cfdc89.jpg Writing - Exhibition Review of “THEN”- White Rabbit Gallery - Qi ZhiLong, China Girl, 2001, oil on canvas Image Courtesy White Rabbit Gallery https://sueannchen.com/writing/songdongxubing monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595511731152-O8XSST1S483AYZIXJ0U2/Screen+Shot+2020-07-23+at+11.35.56+pm.png Writing - Chinese Apartment Artist’s and Maximalist’s political and cultural resistance against the International Art World in the 80’s-90’s Figure 3. Xu Bing, hand-carved printing block from Book from the Sky, 1987-91 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595511387908-WKCVB97C97KUTBS6KPYJ/Screen+Shot+2020-07-23+at+11.35.40+pm.png Writing - Chinese Apartment Artist’s and Maximalist’s political and cultural resistance against the International Art World in the 80’s-90’s Figure 1. Song Dong, Culture Noodles, 1994, installation shots of shredded book pages in the artist’s apartment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595511501975-C9PCAPZY38AJAAYJN28U/Screen+Shot+2020-07-23+at+11.35.49+pm.png Writing - Chinese Apartment Artist’s and Maximalist’s political and cultural resistance against the International Art World in the 80’s-90’s Figure 2. Xu Bing, Book from the Sky, 1987-91, hand-printed books, ceiling, and wall scrolls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595514889274-227HFEHY10FLB17LHMMJ/Screen+Shot+2020-06-17+at+11.10.01+pm.png Writing - Chinese Apartment Artist’s and Maximalist’s political and cultural resistance against the International Art World in the 80’s-90’s Song Dong, Culture Noodles, 1994, installation shots of shredded book pages in the artist’s apartment https://sueannchen.com/writing/timeclockpiecehsiehtehching monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595498878828-68AXT012SS0PBF1TTFYN/tehching_hsieh_010.jpg Writing - “Time Clock Piece” (One Year Performance 1980-81) -Tehching Hsieh Tehching Hsieh, Time Clock Piece (One Year Performance 1980–1981), installation view with time cards, industrial time-clock, projector, photo-strips and film. https://sueannchen.com/writing/challengingmudkazuoshiraga monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/1595484380313-WZJXVFAA3KD8W7DSQY5W/1-mud.jpg Writing - “Challenging Mud” 1955 - Kazuo Shiraga Kazuo Shiraga performing "Challenging Mud" at the first Gutai Open Air Exhibition, Tokyo, 1955. https://sueannchen.com/writing/tag/asian+art monthly 0.5 https://sueannchen.com/writing/tag/exhibition+review monthly 0.5 https://sueannchen.com/writing/tag/visual+analysis monthly 0.5 https://sueannchen.com/writing/tag/contemporary+chinese+art monthly 0.5 https://sueannchen.com/about daily 0.75 2025-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16adf7f74cb87b4db8c727/cd9150af-b0c4-4d2b-b390-9457bcf3c0c8/portrait+7.jpg About Photograph by: Dylan Marriott https://videoloss.xyz/