Life and dreams
Subtitle: contemporary Chinese photography and media art
By: edited by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung ; featuring works by Ai Weiwei [and forty-three others] ; essays by Christopher Phillips [and eight others] ; conversations by Christopher Phillips [and three others]
Contributors: Wu Hung, 1945- editor, contributor; Steidl Verlag; Walther Collection
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Steidl; The Walther Collection
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783958294905
Subjects: Chinese Art; Video art; New media art; Exhibitions; Photography; Artistic Photography; History
Description: "Since the early 1990s, photography and media art have rapidly come to occupy significant places in Chinese contemporary art. Life and Dreams : Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art shows the widespread adoption of photography, video, and digital imaging by successive generations of Chinese artists, as seen in a range of visually inventive and emotionally charged works. Many of them reflect the artists' immediate responses to the unprecedented changes that have swept through China in recent decades, transforming not just the urban landscape, but also key aspects of social relations and everyday life. Some of the most recent media works employ elaborately imaginative and fantasy-driven means to suggest where those changes may ultimately lead the country and its inhabitants"
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany, May 13-November 18, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365).
Table of contents: title: A Conversation  -- Christopher Phillips, Wu Hung, and Artur Walher; title: Life and Dreams  -- Christopher Phillips; title: Plates.; title: Essays.; title: Ruins as Autobiography  -- Wu Hung; title: New Framework  -- Rong Rong; title: New Photo and Its Historical Conditions  -- Wu Hung; title: Enlightenment through a dark lens  -- Karen Smith; title: One and Thirty  -- Stephanie H. Tung; title: From the Illusory to the Political  -- James D. Poborsa; title: A History of Erasure  -- Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong; title: A Spatial Film  -- Christopher Phillips; title: A Conversation between Yang Fudong and Wu Hung --; title: Media in No Man's Land  -- Xin Wang; title: Notes on "New Media" -- Lu Yang.