Staging art and Chineseness

This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways in which cultural objects are attributed to the artist's residency homeland or citizenship rather than cultural tradition style or practice. Acknowledging historical definitions of Chineseness including the orientalist assumptions of the past and the cultural-mixing of the present the book's case studies address the paradoxes and contradictions of representation. An analysis of the historical matrix of global expositions<i> </i>reveals the structural connections among art culture capital and nation.