Xiao Lu

asserting her voice through artistic practice

Authors

  • Laia Manonelles Moner Universitat de Barcelona

Keywords:

Xiau Lu, Performance, Feminism, Chinese Experimental Art, Autorship

Abstract

At the opening of the iconic exhibition China/Avant-Garde (1989, Beijing), the artist Xiao Lu fired two shots at her installation Dialogue and handed the gun to the artist Tang Song, who would later become her boyfriend. From that moment on, the artworld attributed the piece to Tang Song and Xiao Lu. Two decades after the event, Xiao Lu disputed the unique authorship of the artwork in a fictional memoir, Dialogue (2010). In this text, she presented a historiography of her art, reflecting on the performance and challenging Tang Song’s appropriation of the work. This article explores Xiao Lu’s re-writing of the official history of art and its patriarchal foundations through a feminist lens. It engages with complementary, contradictory, and contrasting readings of Xiao Lu's art and offers a new approach that addresses both the therapeutic and political dimensions of the artist's autobiographical account.

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Author Biography

Laia Manonelles Moner, Universitat de Barcelona

Holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Barcelona. She is an associate professor in Department of History of Art, University of Barcelona, Spain. In addition, she’s a member of InterAsia. Interculturality in East Asia (Autonomous University of Barcelona). She is also the author of the book La construcción de la(s) historia(s) del arte contemporáneo en China: Conversaciones con comisarios, historiadores y críticos (The Constructions of Chinese Contemporary Art Histor(ies): Conversations with Curators, Historians and Art Critics, 2017).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0738-0811
E-mail: laiamanonelles@ub.edu

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Published

2023-04-20

How to Cite

Moner, L. M. (2023). Xiao Lu: asserting her voice through artistic practice. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 13(2), 1–27. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/131810

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2023): Abr./Jun. 2023

Section

Performance Art and Public Intimacies

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