{"product_id":"beijing-xingwei","title":"Beijing Xingwei","description":"\u003cp\u003e From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In \u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e, Meiling Cheng engages with such artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its post-Deng era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei-\u003c\/i\u003eitself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium-contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us. And at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, \u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.","brand":"Meiling Cheng","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42848855228477,"sku":"9780857420879","price":59.36,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780857420879_b69d4c11-3dc9-4310-b195-ce9526d1d0a8.jpg?v=1766989567","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/beijing-xingwei","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}