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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50901 - Other social sciences

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EH22_010%2F0002593" target="_blank" >EH22_010/0002593: MSCA Fellowships na Univerzitě Palackého v Olomouci I.</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

ISSN

2051-7041

e-ISSN

2051-705X

Svazek periodika

10

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

205-225

Kód UT WoS článku

001157434000004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85192232709