Published at ARTnews.com, February 2004
With the introduction of digital photography and high-tech printing facilities in China in the 1990s, a new generation of artists immediately embraced photo-based media as the perfect means for expressing the changes taking place around them.
The face of the new China is not the medical masks spawned by the SARS [...]

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 [...]

Published at Frieze.com, January 2006
Despite Shanghai’s leading economic role, Beijing is still China’s political and cultural centre. As capitalism thrives, and state paternalism continues, artists juggle the pitfalls of exoticism and international success. Waling Boers and Pi Li discuss the rapidly changing scene of the Chinese capital.
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Waling Boers
Curator, writer and founding Director of BuroFriedrich-Berlin and [...]

The Asian Wall Street Journal, October 2003
San Diego and Shanghai could not be more different. The sprawling Southern Californian suburb doesn’t have much in common with the chaotic Chinese metropolis it faces across the Pacific. Yet two San Diegans, Tina Yapelli and Eloisa Haudenschild, have found common cause with Shanghai through the unlikely medium of [...]

Delivered at the Zooming into Focus symposium “Envisioning the Future of Contemporary Art from Different Glocal Positions”, China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China, March 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The subject of this symposium is ‘Predicting the future of art – local perspectives on globalization.’ I am not an optimist to talk about the subject. Honestly, every keyword included [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
As the opening of Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection at its final venue the National Gallery in Beijing draws near, it is time to pause and reflect on the exhibition’s significance. Since its inaugural showing in 2003, at the University Art [...]