Body Art in China: Yang Zhichao's Diary from a Psychiatric Ward
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F23%3A73620385" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/23:73620385 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://zenodo.org/records/8363798" target="_blank" >https://zenodo.org/records/8363798</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10441260" target="_blank" >10.1215/10679847-10441260</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Body Art in China: Yang Zhichao's Diary from a Psychiatric Ward
Original language description
This study aims to trace how artists in postsocialist China have adopted the discourse of body art and reshaped its import of sociopolitical criticality. In this article, “body art” implies the use of the human body as the primary material of artistic creation and the performance of actions of cruelty, modification, and endangerment on the artist's body. Through an engagement with theories of embodiment, biopolitics, and postsocialism, this article argues that body art represents one way in which the corporeal assumes a new centrality in China's post‐1978 avant‐garde and popular culture, as both a reappropriated territory of self‐expression and an alienated object of consumption and surveillance. To do so, it discusses body art by Yang Zhichao 杨志超 (b. 1962), focusing in particular on a performance artwork titled Jiayuguan 嘉峪关 (Jiayu Pass, 1999 – 2000) and its documentation by the artist. As a result, this article shows how body art encapsulates the tension between dystopian negativity and regenerative potential at the heart of the postsocialist condition.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50901 - Other social sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_010%2F0002593" target="_blank" >EH22_010/0002593: MSCA Fellowships at Palacky University in Olomouc I.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Positions-Asia Critique
ISSN
1067-9847
e-ISSN
1527-8271
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
"571–596"
UT code for WoS article
001062171500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85169559897