Yang Zhichao's Performance Art at the Margins: Within the Fourth Ring Road (1999) and the Chinese Contemporary

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F23%3A73620386" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/23:73620386 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00082_1" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00082_1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00082_1" target="_blank" >10.1386/jcca_00082_1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Yang Zhichao's Performance Art at the Margins: Within the Fourth Ring Road (1999) and the Chinese Contemporary

Original language description

This article explores the theme of marginality in the art of Yang Zhichao, a critically and socially engaged experimental artist who has been active in China since the mid-1980s. Yang’s oeuvre – which includes performance artworks, drawings and installations – revolves around the issue of sociocultural marginality in reform-era society, from the condition of migrant workers, beggars and psychiatric patients to the borderlands of Chinese civilization and the condition of the avant-garde artist. Drawing also on Chinese art criticism and two interviews with the artist, this study examines in particular the performance Within the Fourth Ring Road (1999) through its photographic and literary documentation. While writing on Yang Zhichao’s art has largely focused on his most extreme performances of ‘body art’ such as Planting Grass (2000), the artwork at the centre of this study highlights an anti-spectacular approach to performance art and reflects Yang’s stated belief in the importance of placing oneself in the circumstances of marginalized people in order to move beyond a voyeuristic gaze. Through a critical analysis of said approach the article reveals a quality that pervades Yang Zhichao’s multi-disciplinary artistic career – that is, its ‘contemporariness’, in Giorgio Agamben’s sense as a focus on the darkest, most emblematic aspects of one’s society and time.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

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)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

ISSN

2051-7041

e-ISSN

2051-705X

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

205-225

UT code for WoS article

001157434000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85192232709