Adele Tan

This catalogue spotlights the third work in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series, SEA STATE 9: proclamation garden by Singaporean artist Charles Lim Yi Yong. It features a text by curator Adele Tan, alongside 30 annotated photos taken by the artist of plant species found on reclaimed sites in Singapore whose transplantation, adaptation to survive and eventual disposal tell the stories of Singapore’s urban and coastal developments.

Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Charles Lim

Peggy Wang

John Clark

Paul Gladston

Birgit Hopfener

Juliane Noth

Andreas Schmid

Beatrice Leanza

Brianne Cohen

Silke von Berswordt

Wang Ching-ling

Doris Ha-lin Sung

Zheng Bo

Thomas Berghuis

Pauline Yao

Joe Martin Hill

Lee Ambrozy

Wenny Teo

Franziska Koch

Davide Quadrio

Contemporary Chinese art is still a young field now being opened up to critical academic research. Negotiating Difference is a pioneering collection of articles which engage with contemporary Chinese art in a global context. The contributions collectively address the urgent methodological question of how to describe, contextualize and theorize artworks and artistic processes in and beyond the People's Republic of China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. The studies break new ground as they chalk out the transcultural entanglements of which art and its practices partake and which they in turn reconfigure. The book features 20 essays written by a select group of international junior and senior scholars engaged in ambitious and methodologically innovative research on contemporary Chinese art. Their multi-faceted, in part interdisciplinary approaches are complemented by four contributions by distinguished practitioners in the field, who - as art curators and critics - are located in China and explore key developments within Chinese art and the changing art scene of the last three decades.

Chinese contemporary Art in the Global Context

Negotiating Difference

Adele Tan

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