Browsing by Author "Chao, Jenifer"

China's ancient past in its contemporary art: On the politics of time and nation branding at the Venice Biennale

This article examines the China Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale through an exploration of temporality. It argues that the pavilion’s deployment of a politics of time – by mobilizing China’s dynastic past and its ...

Cultural Resistance, 9/11 and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions

Chao, Jenifer (Book)

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical ...

Curating climate change: The Taipei Biennial as an environmental problem solver

Chao, Jenifer; Kompatsiaris, Panos (Article)

This article analyses the curatorial practices behind the 2018 Taipei Biennial by considering its ethos of public engagement that fostered a merging of artistic means and civic aims. Entitled ‘Post-Nature: A Museum as an ...

The Ignorant Hip-Hop Artist? Political Rap Encounters Jacques Rancière

Chao, Jenifer (Article)

This paper stages an unexpected encounter between the theoretical thoughts of Jacques Rancière and the soundscape of the American political rapper Paris. It examines the artist’s unapologetically militant rap music against ...

Oppositional Banality: Watching Ordinary Muslims in Little Mosque on the Prairie

Chao, Jenifer (Article)

This paper interrogates how the globally-syndicated series Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007-2012) mobilises one of the most beloved television formats – the situation comedy – to insert a banal and normalised gaze towards ...

Portraits of the enemy: Visualizing the Taliban in a photography studio

Chao, Jenifer (Article)

This article examines studio photographs of Taliban fighters that deviate from popular media images which often confine them within the visual coordinates of terrorism, insurgency and violence. Gathered in a photographic ...