AAA has contributed archival research and loaned items from our collection to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, which "presents work by 71 key artists and groups active across China and worldwide whose critical provocations aim to forge reality free from ideology, to establish the individual apart from the collective, and to define contemporary Chinese experience in universal terms."  

This week, we present printed matter related to the Alternative Publishing section of the show's archival materials.

Other Posts in the Series

Avant-Garde Movements

Life in the Aftermath

Urban Experiments

Experimental Exhibitions

International Exposure

New Systems

Black Cover Book

Image: Cover of Black Cover Book.

This is the first issue of a series of "documents" published by a group of Chinese artists. The contents include interviews; artist statements/views of contemporary art; translations of excerpts of writings by Western artists/academics/critics; and finally, news about art exhibitions/events happening in China at the time of the publication.

Edited by Zeng Xiaojun, Ai Weiwei, and Xu Bing, with Zi Gong (Feng Boyi). Published by Tai Tei Publishing Company, Hong Kong, 1994.

White Cover Book

Image: Cover of White Cover Book.

This is the second issue of a series of "documents" published by a group of contemporary Chinese artists. The contents include interviews; artist statements/views of contemporary art; translations of excerpts of writings by Western artists/academics/critics; and finally, news about art exhibitions/events happening in China at the time of the publication.

Edited by Zeng Xiaojun and Ai Weiwei, with Zhuang Hui. Published by Tai Tei Publishing Company, Hong Kong, 1995.

Grey Cover Book

Image: Cover of Grey Cover Book.

This is the third issue of a series of "documents" published by a group of contemporary Chinese artists. The contents include interviews; artist statements/views of contemporary art; translations of excerpts of writings by Western artists/academics/critics; and finally, news about art exhibitions/events happening in China at the time of the publication.

Edited by Zeng Xiaojun and Ai Weiwei, with Zhuang Hui. Published independently, 1997.

Street

Image: Cover of the periodical Street.

This periodical published monthly beginning in 1994 and ceased publication in 1998. Edited by Xu Hao.

Next Wave

Image: Cover of Next Wave.

Edited by Li Xianting, with Qiu Zhijie and Wu Wenguang.