Other Histories: Guan Wei's Fable for a Contemporary World' was a major installation at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2006-7), and has been described as 'maybe Guan Wei's masterpiece'. The exhibition, inspired by the Ming dynasty voyages of Admiral Zheng He (1371-1432) and the artist's own journey of migration to Australia, combined museum objects with large-scale mural paintings and transformed the Museum gallery into a floating poetic corridor in which history and memory, fact and fiction are blurred.' (Extract from front flap)

This book documents Guan Wei's exhibition and includes a statement and working drawings by Guan as well as essays written by Claire Roberts, Geremie R. Barme, and Alexis Wright.

Alternative title

Ling yi zhong li shi: Guan wei de yi ge xian dai yu yan - cong fang an wen jian dao zhan lan shi xian

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia),

Wild Peony (Sydney, Australia)

editor

Claire ROBERTS, 羅清奇

Location code

MON.GUW

Language

English,

Chinese - Simplified

Keyword

mural, installation, mapping, migration, history, solo exhibition

Publication/Creation date

2008

No of pages

165

ISBN / ISSN

9781876957117

No of copies

Content type

artist monograph,

catalogue

Chapter headings

The Swift Might Speak of its Flight, if Stories Are No Longer There... / 雨燕可能談到它的飛行,倘若故事不再... - Alexis WRIGHT

'Other Histories': Origins and Creative Lessons / 另一種歷史的呈現 - 起因與創作心得 - GUAN Wei, 關偉

Guan Wei: Artists as Storyteller / 關偉: 藝術家和傳奇的講述者 - Claire ROBERTS, 羅清奇

Travels in Guan Wei's Curiosity Cabinet / 行進在關偉的多寳閣 - Geremie R. BARME, 白杰明

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venue	date
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia	2008

Artist

GUAN Wei, 關偉

Organiser

Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia)

Other Histories: Guan Wei's Fable for a Contemporary World - Documentation of an Exhibition

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