Host: Claire Roberts Artist: Xiao Lu Theme: Art + Courage, CoVA Creating Futures Seminar series Sponsor: The University of Melbourne Time: 2021.10.23 Mode: Online from Zoom Adelaide / Sydney Translator: Liu Wanling Coversation video online link: https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/…/dia…/art-courage Claire Roberts: Hello Xiao Lu, it is great to have this opportunity to talk about your thoughts …
Danish Cultural Center, 798 Arts District, Beijing, China (23 October 2016). Photographs by Yi Zhilei. Exhibition view: Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (19 January–24 March 2019). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Kai Wasikowski (2019), for 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art.
To see the problems clearly, you have to view in the dimension of time. “More than twenty years” is quite a lengthy stretch of history for an individual, but in terms of art history, it may be quite short.
XIAO LU 肖鲁 Xiao Lu (born 1962) works with performance, installation and video. She gained fame by shooting her own installation, Dialogue, at the opening of the China Avant-garde exhibition in 1989. After a period of silence, Xiao returned to Beijing in 2003 and since then has produced works with highly personal as well as …
it was the first time that I broke my silence to talk about Dialogue in public in the whole period from 1989 to 2004. This process was so long. These things are all described in my novel “Dialogue”. You can read about it later.
