Shen Xin’s new text “1, 2, 3, 4” further explores the relationship between language and text, simultaneously describing faults in geographic structures and individual histories.Based on Shen Xin’s text, Macalline Art Center will host a performance reading.
Peng Zuqiang’s video Sight Leak transforms and reconsiders the undercurrent of desire in Roland Barthes’ Travels in China. Macalline Art Center will present a performance reading of this text in the exhibition space for “The Elephant Escaped.”
The Elephant Escaped attempts to respond to contemporary society and life in the post-pandemic era. Through all-new commissions by five young Chinese artists, Fang Di, Li Ming, Peng Zuqiang, Shen Xin, and Tao Hui, the exhibition will present a dialogue between independent yet enmeshed elements.
By connecting the material textures of different mediums, Shao Chun awakens subtle observations and intimate impulses within seemingly familiar experiential memories.
The new digital commission project “Bare Screen” presents an artwork or a group of artworks created by leading artists including Tao Hui, Tianzhuo Chen, Liu Qinmin, Liu Chuang, Payne Zhu, Tan Jing & Zheng Ke, Zhang Wenxin, Tang Chao, Hu Wei, Liu Wa and other artists.
“Cacotopia” is a podcast that brings together different perspectives and focuses on voices that may be easily overlooked in everyday life.
Heichi is a Chinese-English bilingual online magazine dedicated to the writing and discussion of art criticism, emphasizing the independent and contemplative voices of its contributors. Heichi considers alternative perspectives on art’s relation to politics and society, spirituality and technology, the beautiful and the grotesque. We invite and commission writers, curators, scholars, and artists to engage with objects, spaces, and people to find the details—the black teeth—hidden within contemporary culture.
The Cloister Project is Macalline Art Center’s special project space in Shanghai. Located on the second floor of the Cloister Apartments at No. 62 Fuxing West Road, Shanghai, the Cloister Project is a non-profit space for exhibitions, public education, and cultural exchange.
