“What attracted me to the Occupy Movement was different... As a Chinese citizen, I spent many sleepless nights with hundreds of American protestors...”
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Li Chen opens her powerful digital photo/video piece, Aphasia, on black screen, with two silent texts: "This might not be a documentary film." Continue to article...
“Being from California means never having to be impressed by celebrity. At least that's what I thought before I met Fan Bing Bing...”
Dundon, an American from California, was shooting pictures for TIME.com in China when a friend asked if he wanted to tutor an actress in English... Continue to article...
A superhero's social media time is interrupted by an unexpected request.
In Chen Zhou’s beautifully hushed “Superman-California Dream”, a lonely cosplayer receives an unexpected West Coast call on his iPhone.... Continue to article...
A small Superman surveys the city by moonlight, making movements that do not signify that he is about to leap, but rather that he is gesturing... Continue to article...
A Chinese photographer in San Francisco explores a China that never was.
Re-imagining the modern Chinese self through photo booths with California as a backdrop.
Three vignettes by a California playwright playing with culture and consumerism in China’s largest city:
Migrant domestic workers on their way to serve China's new bourgeoisie pause to pose for a profile.
Wretched excess: On display in Beverly Hills. Made possible in China.
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On Aphasia: Indices of things we would rather not know by Angela Zito (NYU)
Li Chen opens her powerful digital photo/video piece, Aphasia, on black screen, with two silent texts: "This might not be a documentary film." Continue to article...