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Power Station of Art & various locations

YSABELLE CHEUNG

Navigational instructions were scant at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, leaving viewers to plot their own alternative itineraries. Perhaps you brushed past a pimped-up car installation by Lantian Xie parked on the outdoor pavilion, before entering through the main doors of the Power Station of Art (PSA) to find two forklifts engaged in a Sisyphean tug-of-war dreamt up by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. Or you snuck in through the back, facing off with Yin Yi’s grid of 49 fans that produced gentle, purring sounds, although the expected breeze was strangely absent. Maybe you heard whispers about an installation by Vishal K. Dar in an area of the building that is hard to access, and you zoomed up the staircases and out onto the narrow bridge to reach the PSA’s disused,…

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ArtAsiaPacific (Digital) - 1 Issue, Mar/Apr 2017

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