Yu-Chieh Li was the Andrew W. Mellon C-MAP Fellow for the C-MAP Asia group from October 2013 to September 2015. At the Museum, she was a co-editor of post and organized workshops and research activities on contemporary and modern art in Asia. Her research interests included Dada, installation, and multimedia art as well as modern and contemporary art. Yu-Chieh worked as an intern at the 2008 Taipei Biennale and from 2011 to 2013 assisted in building “Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period,” an online database launched by Heidelberg Research Architecture. She received her master’s degree in the history of European and East Asian Art from the University of Heidelberg and is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on conceptualism of the 1980s in China.
For the artist Yang Jiechang, there is a certain similarity between
contemporary artists and China’s Red Guards of the 1970s: namely, their performance of arbitrary tasks. In this conversation, Yang talks about his “art education” during the Cultural Revolution, when he served as a Red Guard in a small village, and describes how the study of calligraphy extinguished his enthusiasm for revolution and political propaganda.
In the fifteen years since the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s was on view at the Queens Museum, the term global has become ever more thoroughly entrenched in the lexicon of contemporary art. Although one might therefore draw a direct line between the 1999 exhibition and the ever-present “global contemporary” of the art world, texts by two…
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