Books
BOOKS & WRITINGS
This page gathers together five completed book manuscripts: their themes, methods, and the questions each one sets out to answer. Any information relating to formal publication — publisher, ISBN, year of publication — is deliberately left blank; no speculative labels are given.
Manuscripts
The five manuscripts below are all complete, amounting in total to roughly 3 million characters (the author’s own account of their scale); all are currently in manuscript, awaiting publication.
01
Intervention: Art, Symbiosis and Place-based Practice in China
Taking place-based art practice in China as its object, it discusses the conditions, methods and limits of art’s intervention in social reality.
Taking place-based art practice in China as its object, it discusses the conditions, methods and limits of art’s intervention in social reality.
Manuscript
02
The Weight of History: Anselm Kiefer and the Rematerialisation of Contemporary Art
Taking Kiefer as a case study, it discusses how historical trauma is re-borne through material, and where rematerialisation stands within contemporary art.
Taking Kiefer as a case study, it discusses how historical trauma is re-borne through material, and where rematerialisation stands within contemporary art.
Manuscript
03
Beuys’s Methodological Legacy
Treating Beuys as an inheritable methodology rather than a source of style, it asks what of his legacy remains usable today.
Treating Beuys as an inheritable methodology rather than a source of style, it asks what of his legacy remains usable today.
Manuscript
04
On Failure in Contemporary Art
Taking “failure” as its point of entry, it re-examines the anxiety of legitimacy and the self-narratives of contemporary art.
Taking “failure” as its point of entry, it re-examines the anxiety of legitimacy and the self-narratives of contemporary art.
Manuscript
05
The Folded Contemporary: Non-Western Contemporaneity and the Triadic Structure of Chinese Contemporary Art
Starting from non-Western contemporaneity, it proposes a triadic framework for understanding Chinese contemporary art.
Starting from non-Western contemporaneity, it proposes a triadic framework for understanding Chinese contemporary art.
Manuscript
A note on publication details: this page records only statuses that can be verified. Once formal publication takes place, the publisher, year and ISBN will be added here.
Further Reading
For public texts, terminology entries and notes on writing method, see the Publications page; for the complete formal record of all articles, see the Writing Record page.