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Territory, Region, Influence: On crossing the border

Published in Hong Kong Gallery Guide. Text by Robin Peckham. Contemporary art in Hong Kong has never troubled itself much with out-and-out identity politics, neither in the affirmative sense of working through sincerely posed questions we find in the United States and Southeast Asia nor through the embarrassingly naive denial we read in mainland Chinese [...]

The Political Scene: system and origin in the historical painting of Chow Chun Fai

First published in a catalogue accompanying the solo exhibition Reproduction of Reproduction at Hanart TZ Gallery. Text by Robin Peckham. That nostalgia for the cinema should function through painting may serve as a testament to the staying power of the ideology of the eternal art object: Hong Kong culture was, for several decades, defined through [...]

From Beijing with Love

First published on World Wide Pop. Text by Robin Peckham. Stephen Chow controls the canon of humorous film in Hong Kong. Although today both he and fellow hometown heavy-hitter Jackie Chan have made their peace with the dictators in Beijing and pledged to use only Mandarin, the language of bureaucratic boredom, in their future films, [...]