Candice Lin : pigs & poison /

Candice Lin : pigs & poison /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Aotearoa, New Zealand : Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Len Lye Centre ; Guangdong, China : Guangdong Times Museum ; Bristol [UK] : Spike Island ; Milan : Mousse Publishing, 2023. ©2023
Description:	114 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Lin, Candice -- Exhibitions. Racism in art -- Exhibitions. Asians in art -- Exhibitions. Slavery in art -- Exhibitions. Diseases in art -- Exhibitions. Racism against Asians -- Exhibitions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13146462

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Varying Form of Title:	Pigs & poison Pigs and poison
Other authors / contributors:	Lin, Candice, artist. Yingqian Cai, Nikita, editor, contributor. Leckie, Robert, editor. Stanhope, Zara, editor. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, host institution. Shi dai mei shu guan (Guangzhou Shi, China), host institution. Spike Island (Firm), host institution.
ISBN:	9788867495580 8867495585
Notes:	Catalog of an itinerant exhibition, 2020-2022. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery--Len Lye Centre, Aotearoa, New Zealand (8 August - 15 November 2020) / Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, China (20 March - 16 May 2021) / Spike Island, Bristol (5 February - 8 May 2022).
Summary:	Candice Lin's art explores marginalized histories, colonial legacies, and the materials that link them. She invokes and interrogates volatile themes through a research-based practice, giving them a sensuous reality through substances like tobacco, opium poppies, bone-black pigment, and lard. More resonant and pungent than usual art materials, her artworks seep and spill and in this, they evoke the unruly stains of the exploitation, migration, and disease they reference. Her exhibition, experienced through the ears, nose, and skin as much as through the eyes, calls up centuries-old racialized traumas that still have uncanny and urgent meaning today. Candice Lin: Pigs and Poison is published on the occasion of a significant commission and touring exhibition of the same name. Lin's title refers to the nineteenth-century trade in Chinese indentured laborers disparagingly called "pigs" and to opium, or "poison," which in the same period was imported by the British to China and used as both a commodity and a mechanism for controlling the workers who became addicted to it. Exhibition: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa/New Zealand (08.08. - 15.11.2020) / Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (20.03. - 16.05.2021) / Spike Island, Bristol, UK (05.02. - 08.05.2022).

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Nikita Yingqian Cai, Robert Leckie and Zara Stanhope
Racial Melancholia / Robert Leckie
Research Images
The Materiality of Memory / Lisa Lowe
Exhibition Images
In Conversation / Alvin Li and Candice Lin
Research Images
Email Exchange / Jih-Fei Cheng and Candice Lin
Witness, Oh Witness Dey / Shani Mootoo
Exhibition Checklist
Contributors' Biographies.