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“Written Words Make a Wall” video–Yan Li’s painting and poetry
One more in my video series, this one with cameo by Lucia, an avid if still somewhat imperfect reader. The short poem series that frames, textually, the video is ongoing. Numbering already in the...
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night cities– by Yan Li and me
Spring time and therefore doing some spring cleaning of my hard drive (simply so that I can use it). In process I stumbled across this painting by Yan Li: I think the painting captures well the...
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Mo Mo 默默 on Yan Li 严力 article from Coquette 撒娇
Below is my translation of an article, from the year 2000, written by Shanghai poet, abstract photographer (about whom I’ve written on this blog), and arts organizer Mo Mo. It is Mo’s take on fellow...
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Origins
Zhang Wei, 1976 The thing about origins, is that we have to keep going back to them to make them them. Ala: Light before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974-1985 15 May 2013 – 1 September 2013 Asia...
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“Thanks for That”
Here’s a video I made a while back. If all goes well, this will be the first in a long series of poetry/art short takes. This particular poem is one of my favorites by Yan Li. What caught my attention...
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Yan Li “killing haze”
I’m fortunate enough to be curating an exhibition coming up next month at the Ryan James gallery. More on that project in the coming weeks. Part of the display will be six new works by Yan Li. One...
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Poetic Survivors (诗意的幸存者) exhibition
We Are Ourselves History 我们自己就是历史 –the “poetic survivors” POET-ARTISTS at it again. Laying vigorous claim to the hopelessly untranslatable 诗意 (“poeticalness”?–or shall we just say ‘poetic’), the...
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Yan Li, Recent Works
Yan Li’s poetry and art has been receiving a lot of attention of late in China. Among others, the online poetry portal New Poetry Canon 新诗经, started in 2012 by Gao Shixian, ran a lengthy piece (#067...
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Two more recent poems by Yan Li
Patching Stars with Me 从我开始修补 Yan Li is in the Seattle area for the summer. He usually spends such time in New York, but is trying this side of the US mainland for a change of pace. Its slower than he...
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