#week 98

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Here is week 98, Everlark lovers! As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

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Outside Expectations - @katnissdoesnotfollowback

Wilderness Log - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Nine Months Before/ After The Nighmare - @historywriter2007​

The First Date- A Month After - @historywriter2007​

The Coin Laws - redheadedflame

The Quiet Boy - juststella aka @justajjfan

Katniss Everdeen is Not a Stalker - AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

Refresh, Sacrifice, New Hygiene, Infection, Clean, Robot, Air, Housekeeping, www.agentbong.com, Cigarette, Dyson, Modern People by Chou Yu-Cheng (周育正). Performance. 2017.

Comprised of three installations so far in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, this performance, sculpture and recital piece by Chou explores the explicit and implicit meanings of hygiene and the sense of cleanliness. A multi-layered interpretation of the (technological) evolution of “keeping things clean,” is created through the harmony of acrylic on canvas and wood, handmade noodles, smoke machines, wooden structures, robot vacuums, air purifiers, vacuum cleaners and fiberglass. Giant-sized, mammoth-like sculptures of bowls, plates and chopsticks on a raised stage is used as the central element. The division of labour between human and machine is playfully represented by a mechanical cleaning robot and air purifiers sponsored by Dyson, as well as  actors continuously wiping the sculptures and reciting product descriptions. During its exhibition in Hong Kong, the installation brought awareness to the city’s heavy dependency on domestic workers in relation to the core issue of humanity. Chou says, "There are some things that robots cannot replace. For example, in this work, the only platform the robot can clean is the floor. People are still needed for many other things….So even though there is technology and new inventions, people and humanity is still a core issue."

Chou Yu-Cheng, born on 1976, is a Taiwanese conceptual artist based in Taipei. He is the recipient of the Taipei Art Award in 2012 and the Taishin Annual Visual Art Award in 2011, and has exhibited his work in Hong Kong, Berlin, Manchester, Paris and various cities in Taiwan.

Photos courtesy of Edouard Malingue Gallery

Selected Works by Xia Xiaowan. 2006 (upper row) and 2009.

Born in 1959, Xia Xiaowan is a 1982 graduate of the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of the China’s Central Academy of Fine Art. Xia currently lives in his native Beijing, working as a professor in the stagecraft department of the Central Academy of Drama  He is also a member of the China Oil Painting Institute, Beijing Artists Association and Beijing Arts of Oil Painting Commission.

Xia etches each piece with special pencils onto tinted glass panels, each 6 mm thick, which are arranged to create individual, three-dimensional images. Expressing that he once had “problems expressing space in flat paintings”, he decided to associate the process of painting with CAT scans involved in medical technology. His depiction of monstrous, fleshy and grotesque forms - which nevertheless manage to retain human resemblance - reflects his preoccupation with the ideas and images of humanity present in classical European art.

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