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1 Aspects of the ephemeral in contemporary art and cultural practice in China Ephemera workshop, Rice University Chao Center for Chinese Studies Dr. Katie Hill OCCA – Office of Contemporary Chinese Art, Oxford, UK Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and New York

2 Qiu Zhijie, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Reactivation, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

3 Wu Shanzhuan (b.1956) Big Business -Selling Prawns. Installation, blackboard, chalk, prawns National Art Gallery, Beijing, 1989

4 Books translated and published in the 1980s in China including Chan Buddhist texts and translations of Western authors such as Wittgenstein, Beckett, Ionesco, Kant and Sartre, to name a few

5 Scenes of the Burning Event (destroying works of art outside the Xiamen Art Museum) by the Xiamen Dada group, 1986

6 Xiamen Dada, Exhibition for Fujian Art Museum, 1986

7 Sheng Qi (b.1965) and others, Concept 21 on Great Wall. Performance, 1986

8 Xi Jianjun and Sheng Qi, Concept 21 – we don’t care if 3 x 7=21, 1987, Beijing University campus

9 ‘China/Avant-garde’ exhibition National Gallery of China, Beijing, 1989

10 Xiao Lu (b.

11 Duan Yingmei, I Love Computer, Hanover, 2005

12 Duan Yingmei, Yingmei in Wonderland, with Susanne Resch, live performance installation, 22th june 2008 (Foto: jürgen bernhard kuck)

13 To add one meter to an anonymous mountain, 1995. Live performance with Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zuoxiao Zuzhou, Ma Zongyin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin and Zhu Ming Duration approx. 20 minutes Photographer: Lu Nan

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15 Mad For Real (Cai Yuan b.1956 and JJ Xi b. 1962) Soya Sauce Ketchup Fight, University of Essex 19 th January, 2009 Perspex box, bottles of soya sauce and ketchup

16 Soya Sauce Ketchup Fight, Performance, Liverpool Biennale, 2002

17 Mad For Real, Monkey King Plays Havoc in the Heavenly Kingdom, British Museum, 2004

18 Alive, Alive-O! (Huozhe Huozhe) 2004 Morecambe Bay, Lancashire This memorial project was a tribute to the Chinese cockle pickers who drowned at Morecambe Bay in February 2004. It was an exploration of the dark underbelly of globalisation in the context of Britain and China. The artists inscribed the word alive, alive oh! in the sand, which was subsequently swept away by the incoming tide.

19 Tomato Lorry, Vital Live Art Festival Manchester 2006

20 Song Dong, Waste Not, 2005-2012 (BTAP, Beijing) - ongoing Installation, 10,000 household objects Barbican Art Gallery, London, Feb-June, 2012

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22 Song Dong, Waste Not, installation

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25 Liang Shaoji (b.1945), Silkworms series

26 Hu Jie Though I am Gone, 2005 Documentary film

27 Ai Weiwei, Nian 念, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVBCdkRTX0


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