Decolonial gesture and the screening of the botanical artist in Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (Bo Wang and Pan Lu, 2017)

Bo Wang and Pan Lu’s split-screen video essay Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2017) charts the relationship between its titular categories and British imperialism in China, especially the colonial possession of Hong Kong as a result of the Opium Wars in the nineteenth century. It centres on the co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarah Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2022-07-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue23/HTML/ArticleCooper.html