Tag Archives: Wang Bing

Wang Bing’s Gloria Days

10th December 2021The Library of the Futuredocumenta 14, Gloria-Kino, Le Bal Books, Roma Publications, Wang BingMinus Plato

Empty Daybook – Wang Bing on 29 January 1987

9th June 2019UncategorizedEmpty Daybook, Wang BingMinus Plato

January 29, 1987, was an ordinary day in history but a very important day for me: it was on that day that I first emerged from collective life. I went to Hainan Island off Haikou, where I saw the ocean for the first time, realized my country was about to experience huge changes, and began […]

How much time did you spend in Athens with your face up against a window, peering into a closed building, trying to get a glimpse of a work of art or at least the space in which it was made? Did this happen to you at Archimidous 15 and Nikhil Chopra’s Drawing a Line through […]

Athens Documenta Diary, Day 1: Thirsty Work at EMST

9th June 2017Athens Documenta Diary, EMST, Lysikrates monument, Wang BingAthens Documenta Diary, Diogenes, documenta 14, Lysikrates monument, Wang BingMinus Plato

Today, on my way to start my first full day at documenta 14 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), I took a detour past the Lysikrates Monument. This small cylindrical building was erected in 335/4 BCE (a few years after Philip of Macedon’s conquest of Greece) to commemorate the work of the ‘chorus-producer’ […]