"Scraping and Bloodletting": Xiamen Dada and the Self-Renewing System of Reform-Era Art

In 1986, Dada rhetoric surfaced in the coastal city of Xiamen in southeast China to be taken up by the art collective Xiamen Dada (xiamen dada 厦门达达). Active between 1986 and 1989, the collective targeted agents in the institutional framework of art. Their activities included a burning event where th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xu, Qianyue
Other Authors: Jones, Caroline A.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145123