A Yellow Box in Qingpu: Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese Space

A Yellow Box in Qingpu:
Contemporary Art and Architecture
in a Chinese Space

Date: 6th Sept to 6th October, 2006
Venue: Xiao Ximen (Minor West Gate),
Qingpu Town, Shanghai


EVENING PARTY

Time: 19:00-22:00 6th September 2006
Venue: Ruins of Qingpu Cement Factory
Programs: Music + Mixed media performance

Yellow Box is a project initiated by the Visual Culture Research Centre of China
Academy of Art. Its purpose is to investigate issues about contemporary art,
creativity and culture of connoisseurship in response to the modern white cube.
This project intends to investigate issues of connoisseurship and display that are
embedded in Chinese traditional spaces; meanwhile it also intends to reinterpret
traditional literati spirit in light of contemporary art. In 2005, the first
exhibition of Yellow Box subtitled Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting in
Taiwan was held at the Taipei Fine Art Museum. That exhibition experimented with
solutions for displaying the subtlety of literati art within the sterile ??white
cube?? by either building mediating structures or setting up viewing procedures.
Based on that exhibitions experiment, the present Yellow Box project continues
the research in exhibition practice by studying contemporary art and architecture.