2025.03.11
Speaker
Zairong XIANG
Host
Liu Tian
Introduction
A decolonial and irreverent “reading” of the Tai hexagram (Earth over Heaven) of I Ching and the concept of transdualism serves as the theoretical framework connecting three major exhibitions the speaker co-curated in recent years:
Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, co-curated with Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Claire Tancons, and Denise Ryner.
Cosmos Cinema: 14th Shanghai Biennial, co-curated with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis, and Ben Eastham.
How to Be Happy Together?, currently on view at Para Site in Hong Kong.
These exhibitions examine the modern/colonial world system from different perspectives, critiquing binary divisions through cosmologies and origin myths that transcend time, space, and cultures. They explore the either-or logic embedded in racial capitalism and colonial modernity, the secular narratives of colonial modernity and its historical positioning, while reflecting on diverse cosmologies, micro-realities, and the interconnectedness of the cosmos and humanity.
This lecture will revisit these three exhibitions by introducing the works of participating artists, discussing relevant theoretical frameworks, and analyzing various aspects of exhibition design.
Reference
1 Introduction: Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) + Curatorial essay: Ceremony can(not) be found in the Serpent(ine)
2 Shanghai Biennale: River Swimming in Salmon
3 Transdualism, or the A/history of Yin-Yang (Article, Video)
4 philoSOPHIA：We need to talk about the penis
Speaker
Zairong XIANG
Host
Liu Tian
Introduction
A decolonial and irreverent “reading” of the Tai hexagram (Earth over Heaven) of I Ching and the concept of transdualism serves as the theoretical framework connecting three major exhibitions the speaker co-curated in recent years:
Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, co-curated with Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Claire Tancons, and Denise Ryner.
Cosmos Cinema: 14th Shanghai Biennial, co-curated with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis, and Ben Eastham.
How to Be Happy Together?, currently on view at Para Site in Hong Kong.
These exhibitions examine the modern/colonial world system from different perspectives, critiquing binary divisions through cosmologies and origin myths that transcend time, space, and cultures. They explore the either-or logic embedded in racial capitalism and colonial modernity, the secular narratives of colonial modernity and its historical positioning, while reflecting on diverse cosmologies, micro-realities, and the interconnectedness of the cosmos and humanity.
This lecture will revisit these three exhibitions by introducing the works of participating artists, discussing relevant theoretical frameworks, and analyzing various aspects of exhibition design.
Reference
1 Introduction: Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) + Curatorial essay: Ceremony can(not) be found in the Serpent(ine)
2 Shanghai Biennale: River Swimming in Salmon
3 Transdualism, or the A/history of Yin-Yang (Article, Video)
4 philoSOPHIA：We need to talk about the penis