The book Place · Time · Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom documents and reflects on the first curatorial project of 'West Heavens'. Shown in Shanghai between October and December 2010, the exhibition marks the first direct exchange between Indian and Chinese artists in modern time. For Chinese artists and intellectuals, the modern Indian experience has prompted radical reflection of the Chinese condition. The rethinking of 'modernity' underlines the curatorial concept, and artist have been encouraged to create works especially for this exchange. 'West Heavens' intends to also open up new methodologies in bringing Asian art circles into direct contact with each other, bypassing mediating platforms and ideologies customarily established in the West.

The exhibition was held at two unconventional display spaces (a former colonial British Consulate's chapel and dormitory, and the street level lobby of a commercial building across from the Shanghai Biennale 2010).

The book includes essays, interviews, brief artist biographies, as well as photo documentation by Shanghai-based German photographer Thomas Fuesser and Chinese photographer Mao Xingyu.



《時‧地‧戲:印中當代藝術》是對「西天中土」項目的第一次當代藝術策展實踐的記錄和思考。2010年10月-12月間,在上海市中心的兩個非展覽的公共空間內,人們看到了來自印度和中國藝術家的裝置、影像和行為作品,這既是印度當代藝術家第一次將中國觀眾作為談話對象進行的創作,也是中國藝術家和知識精英藉此以印度為參照之下,對自身的反思與回應。這個展覽的策展和創作建築於對「現代性」的反思;其實現不僅為「西天中土」整個計劃的立意奠定了基調,也繞開了一直以來中印藝術界以西方作為思想中轉站和展示平台的套路,開啟了以藝術創作為思想更新方式的新途徑。 本書的作品現場照片由旅居上海的德國攝影師Thomas Fuesser和中國攝影師毛星宇拍攝。

Alternative title

Shi di xi: yin zhong dang dai yi shu

Access level

Onsite

Location code
EX.CHN.PTP
Language

Chinese - Traditional, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

291

ISBN / ISSN

9789881837608

No of copies

2

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

Preface to Place.Time.Play: Intimate Others - Chaitanya SAMBRANI

Place.Time.Play: Contemporary Art from the 'West Heavens' to the 'Middle Kingdom' - Chaitanya SAMBRANI

Scaling the West Heavens - CHANG Tsongzung Johnson, 張頌仁

Politics of Rehearsal: In Conversation with Raqs Media Collective

Modernism in India and China: A Conversation with Gulammohammed Sheikh

Conversation with Nilima Sheikh on Beauty and Politics

History and Tradition: A Conversation Between Lin Haizhong, Chang Tsong-Zung, Gulam and Nilima Sheikh

Atul Bhalla on The Listener from West Heavens

Gulammohammed Sheikh on The City

Gigi Scaria on Gandhi and Mao

Nilima Sheikh on Over Land

Tushar Joag on Riding Rocinante

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Place · Time · Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom, 時‧地‧戲:印中當代藝術