Published in Randian. Text by Robin Peckham. Literati painting is often viewed within Chinese art history as a highly restricted genre, consisting of monochromatic works of ink on paper involving natural themes interpreted through a subjective or even abstract treatment produced by amateur scholars, officials, and members of the gentry in southern China across almost [...]
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Published in LEAP, Vol. 1 No. 6, December 2010. Text by Robin Peckham. Yeung, Yang, ed., Around (Pocket:1). Hong Kong: soundpocket, 2010. 370pp. ISBN: 9789881948014 (pbk.). There has been a surprising resurgence of interest in sound art in Hong Kong over the past few years, spurred by a combination of factors from a strong research [...]
Friday, November 19, 2010
Published on World Wide Pop. Text by Robin Peckham. Much has been made of the vigor of the experimental music scene in Beijing, which many observers–myself included–once expected to bridge the gaps between underground music and mass culture on the one hand and fine art on the other. This singularity, unfortunately, never came to pass, [...]
Saturday, September 11, 2010
First published in Randian. Text by Robin Peckham. During a recent debate over sound art that seemed to grip several quarters of the Hong Kong art world for the better part of the summer of 2010, one of the recurring topics of discussion was the relationship between art and music. Dominated by figures emerging from [...]
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The following interview was carried out by Robin Peckham and Jessica Lam with Samson Young, Yao Chung-Han, and Rachel Connelly. It was translated and edited by Robin Peckham and then Ceci Moss before publication on Rhizome.org. Introduction The exhibition Resonance was initiated in early 2010 as an experiment in the conceptual underpinnings and practical manifestations [...]
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“Resonant if Unsound: Concept, Style, Execution” First published in Hong Kong Gallery Guide. This text describes a general critical framework. Text by Robin Peckham, with thanks to Venus Lau and Rachel Connelly. Marcel Duchamp inaugurated one of the manifold lineages of experimental art in the twentieth century with a push towards what he termed “non-retinal [...]
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This is the extended version of a discussion between Ben Houge and Robin Peckham (in italics), to be published in a forthcoming publication focusing on new media. It was carried out in person and via email between September 2009 and April 2010. When you work with Chinese artists and musicians, how do the cultural politics [...]
Text by Robin Peckham Inter Art, a deservedly obscure photography space on the south side of 798 in Beijing, recently hosted the exhibition Remix and Share, organized by Creative Commons China and the web portal Artintern. The issue of copyright and open systems for alternative licensing is not an altogether immaterial one within the Chinese [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Text by Robin Peckham As the second iteration of the e-flux Pawnshop comes to an end in The Shop managed by Vitamin Creative Space in Beijing, I would like to take a minute to think over some of the issues that this project has raised. After all, the logo of the Society for Experimental Cultural [...]
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Text by Robin Peckham Notes from an evening of Waterland Kwanyin Waterland Kwanyin, the sporadic workshop and performance series formerly organized by critic-turned-musician Yan Jun, functions as the nerve center of the Beijing experimental scene. More often than not, its space gives way to a model of noise as totalizing force. Though guests invited to [...]