It’s World Television Day!
I hope everyone out there is doing their part and celebrating by watching TV.
I found out about this important, but heretofore unknown to me holiday today, when I visted the Shanghai Art Museum to see the 2004 Shanghai Bienniale. There were several video installations I liked — one by an artist named, I think, Fung Meng Bo, another by a female Vietnamese artist, and one by a Korean artist named Jane Bum Park (I think). I saw a fun DV piece called “Cosplay” (which made me wonder why there isn’t more humor in art), and one called “Outlets,” which featured the guy who’d been hit with a brick in Yang FuDong’s photo “The First Intellectual.” There were also photos by Cindy Sherman and a video installation by Coco Fusco, but neither was particularly interesting. There was also no sign of Zhu Yu, who became infamous after eating a baby in a performance piece at one of the previous Bienniales. I don’t know what ever happened to him. Maybe he’s in jail.