Museum Lab: Origins of Chinese Contemporary art

A research project which sought to draw a contrast between the Western framework of the Museum Typology and a Post Civil War emergence of Chinese Contemporary art. While the traditional Western framework would evolve out of aristocratic and post colonial institutionalisation of museology, the Chinese artists, having emerged from a ravaged sociocultural landscape, would need to find it’s footing in a relative void. This period from the 50s to the late 80s would see a flurry of artistic activity that is as radical as the emergence of Rauschenberg and the Dada movement which took place some 50 years prior.