REVISITING PERFORMANCE ART OF THE 1990S AND THE POLITICS OF MEDITATION. This article is not meant to give an overview of political and aesthetic debates in China; rather, it is to focus on how performance art as a bodily practice opens up some new ways of engaging this historically rich relationship between art and the political. Performance art is a site that involves locating the body at a particular historical moment, physical space, and aesthetic experience. By reexamining primarily Zhang Huan’s iconic work from the 1990s and a few other artists from this period, this brief essay explores how aesthetics shapes the terms and conditions of politics, shifting the dominant one-to-one correlation that structures discourse around art emerging out of China. In other words, it is an exploration of a different relationship between aesthetics and politics—not to dismiss the work that has already been done, but to supplement and expand how we think about this dynamic. - LEAP, 2013. leapleapleap/2013/08/revisiting-performance-art-of-the-1990s-and-the-politics-of-meditation/
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