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Ink and Oil-Spills: Eco-Art in Contemporary Chinese Art
No full textThis project investigates the works of two contemporary artists living and working in China, Cai Guo-Qiang and Yang Yongliang, and how their work is considering and responding to greater processes of climate change and environmental destruction. I center my discussion around the city of Shanghai, connecting the physical landscape and the city\u27s history to my discussion of their works. In the first half of the project, I explore Cai Guo-Qiang\u27s exhibition, The Ninth Wave, to understand why the connections between artistic intent, viewer reception, and eco-art do not always line up neatly. In the second half, I focus on Yang Yongliang\u27s work and how the concept of apocalypse in his photo-collages is understood by him as an industrial process that can rapidly and drastically change the landscape
