Delivered at the Zooming into Focus symposium “Envisioning the Future of Contemporary Art from Different Glocal Positions”, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China, March 2004
It was in 1988 when Zhang Peili realized his 30 X 30, one of the first examples of Chinese video art. 30 X 30, a two hour sequence showing the artist breaking [...]

Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, March 2006
The Haudenschild Collection focuses solely on the media of photography and video. In this respect, it is unique among the increasing number of collections of contemporary art from China. Starting in the late 1990s, Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild travelled regularly to China and slowly acquainted themselves with local [...]

San Diego Union Tribune, November 2003
It’s a salutary sign of the times: You know artistic freedom is palpable in China when its artists can toy with culture’s icons. That’s surely the case with Zhao Bandi’s photograph of himself in a tux, his face tense and his hand on the paw of a panda (of the [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Photography became art again in China in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whereas this visual technology was largely reduced to a propaganda tool during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, it reconnected with individual expression after the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was over. The April Photographic Society [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Contemporary art in China reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena. Chinese artists are gaining international recognition for their potent artworks that address a rapidly changing society; influenced by Western ideals and art practice, their creative production nevertheless remains [...]

Lianhe Zaobao NOW, Singapore, August 2005
No longer for the sole purpose of documentation, photography and video in art has become a popular medium in contemporary Chinese art. Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, on view now in Singapore, offers an insight into the development of contemporary Chinese photography and [...]