#week 89

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Drinking Alone Under the Moon (月下獨酌) by Li Bai (李白). Tang Dynasty.

Known for his romantic outlook on life, Li Bai (701-762) is one of China’s greatest and most influential poets. His poetry often displays themes of indulgence, romance and solitude, and his character is often conversing with nature and drinking wine. Drinking Alone Under the Moon was included in Sun Zhu’s collection of Three Hundred Tang Poems (唐詩三百首). This poem was written in Li Bai’s middle period, which was marked from his brief position as a court scribe to the uprising of the An Lu-Shan Rebellion. Taking place one lonely night, Li Bai romanticizes an intimate gathering of himself, the moon and his own shadow sharing a bottle of wine. Singing, dancing and finding joy in their company, Li Bai toasts to another meeting next spring in the Milky Way.

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From its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances by Jon Wang. Performance. 2017.

Set in Hong Kong, referred to as the feng shui capital of the world, this video documentation of an hour long performance re-enacts a live feng shui intervention and takes the audience through the flow of energy between natural and built environments using a buoyant camera. A voice narrates for the queer future as characters explore shape shifting relationships with various objects and their remote-selves. For this project, Wang travelled to Hong Kong to discover contemporary feng shui practices and its architectural manifestations. Standing at the edge of the city are the dragon gates, which are high rise buildings with rectangular voids designed to allow dragons to pass from the mountains to the sea to bathe and drink.

Jon Wang is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and festivals in North America and has received numerous awards and grants for his work. Wang is also the cofounder of ZEZE Hotel and is working on opening a queer bathhouse in New York City.

Watch the art film here.

Images courtesy of Jon Wang.

Why Were They Throwing Bricks? by Jenny Zhang. Originally published by n+1 in 2017.

Recipient of a 2018 O’ Henry Prize, Jenny Zhang’s short fiction piece “Why Were They Throwing Bricks?” explores the complexities of familial relationships and the challenges of negotiating and preserving filial bonds. The essay develops in the bold, intimately colloquial style characteristic of Zhang’s poetry and prose writing, filling the space with purposeful images and descriptive language. 

Jenny Zhang is a New York-based Chinese American poet and writer. In 2017, she released her first short story collection, Sour Heart, to critical acclaim. Her first poetry collection, Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, was published by Octopus Books.

Selected Illustrations from 19 Days (19天) by Old Xian (老先).

Old Xian (老先) is an illustrator and comic artist based in Hangzhou, China. In 2012, she released The Specific Heat Capacity of Love as well as Joker Danny (小丑丹尼). Joker Danny earned Xian a Shueisha Tezuka Award and a Golden Dragon Award for Best Artist. She considers Joker Danny one of her representative works.

19 Days (19天) was first published in September 2013. The comic chronicles the lives and personal growth of four teenage boys; namely childhood friends Jian Yi (见一) and Zhan Zheng Xi (展正希), as well as the handsome He Tian (賀天) and the reluctant Mo Guan Shan (莫关山). In the years following its debut, 19 Days has become Xian’s most well-renowned work, amassing a global fanbase formerly unknown to Chinese comic artists.

Images courtesy of Old Xian (老先).