Xiao Lu

asserting her voice through artistic practice

Auteurs

  • Laia Manonelles Moner Universitat de Barcelona

Mots-clés :

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

Résumé

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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Biographie de l'auteur

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

Publiée

2023-04-20

Comment citer

Moner, L. M. (2023). Xiao Lu: asserting her voice through artistic practice. Révue Brésilienne d’Études De La Présence, 13(2), 1–27. Consulté à l’adresse https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/131810

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Rubrique

L'Art de la Performance et L'intimité Publique