Robin Peckham is a Hong Kong based writer whose critical interests lie in developing a vocabulary to discuss art and culture in greater China without resorting to stale complaints about the “lack” of particular modules like independent criticism, education, and so on. His work concentrates on infrastructural histories, tracing the development of galleries, curators, exhibitions, artist studios, and other conceptual poles as a way to understand the art produced under this system. Ultimately, this project links contemporary cultural production in China with similar and occasionally coextensive international networks, leading to a more coherent, organic, and complex picture of contemporary art history less closely linked with the dominant narrative of certain groups of artists and their auction results. Current topics of this research include the Post-Sense Sensibility generation, Big Tail Elephant and its influences in the Pearl River Delta, and the creation of the New Media Department at the China Academy.
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