AAP Review Ran Zhang - Clara Tang. For the amateur, peering through a microscope is often accompanied by an excitement for the unfamiliar—looking through the lens to find a shape enlarged, the imperceptible rendered visible and thus fathomable to the human mind. Ironically, in the current global pandemic, both viral fear and salvation lie within the microscopic realm.
WeiterlesenK-Pop aus Südkorea ist heute vor allem durch Boy-Groups wie BTS und Girl-Groups wie Twice bekannt, die mit ihren wechselnden Haarfarben und mitreißenden Pop-Tunes seit 2016 die größten Konzerthallen der Welt bespielen. Hypersynchrone Choreografien, makelloses Aussehen und die kollektive, internationale Fankultur gehören zum Erfolgsrezept des K-Pop, dessen Ursprünge bis weit in die Nachkriegszeit reichen, als amerikanische GIs präsent im Land waren.
WeiterlesenInterview with Isaac Chong Wai - The Berlin-based artist has a nose for systemic, underlying issues in (German) society. When I visited him in the studio, we talked about his new projects, his interest in German history and the way he deals with the current media coverage every day.
WeiterlesenOn the occasion of Lee Mingwei’s exhibition “禮 Li, Gifts, and Rituals” in Berlin, Clara Tang speaks to the artist via Zoom to talk about his current projects, and his wild mix of interests spanning Buddhism, classical Chinese literature, and American folk painting.
WeiterlesenWhen art historian Mia Yu started looking into the artist Pan Yuliang (also known as Pan Yulin) in 2017, she asked a simple question: “Who are you?” Yu wasn’t looking for facts—documents on Pan, one of the first women to join Chinese and European artist circles in the 1920s and ’30s, are abundant. Yu was after Pan’s personal view as a…
WeiterlesenFounded in 2006 as a book club, the Berlin-based artist collective Slavs and Tatars are driven by the frictions found between linguistic systems. With a particular focus on Eurasia, which they define as the “area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China,” their interdisciplinary practice ranges from…
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