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Kongkee : warring states cyberpunk /

"This volume explores the immersive world of Warring States Cyberpunk, a retro-futurist narrative exhibition conceived by London-based Chinese artist and animation director Kong Khong-chang (born 1977), known as Kongkee. Through multiscreen videos, wall projections, neon installations, vibrant...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chen, Abby, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : New York, NY : Asian Art Museum ; DelMonico Books available through ARTBOOK/D.A.P., 2026.
Subjects:
Kongkee, > 1977- > Exhibitions.
Video installations (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Multimedia installations (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Cyberpunk fiction > Exhibitions.
Qu, Yuan, > approximately 343 B.C.-approximately 277 B.C. > Art.
Installations vidéo (Art) > 21e siècle > Expositions.
Installations multimédias (Art) > 21e siècle > Expositions.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
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Summary:"This volume explores the immersive world of Warring States Cyberpunk, a retro-futurist narrative exhibition conceived by London-based Chinese artist and animation director Kong Khong-chang (born 1977), known as Kongkee. Through multiscreen videos, wall projections, neon installations, vibrant graphic works, narrative texts and ancient Chinese objects, Kongkee unfurls his speculative odyssey centered on the legendary Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who lived during the Warring States Period (c. 481-221 BCE). His multimedia narrative traces the journey of Yuan's soul from the ancient Chu Kingdom to a retro-futuristic Asia where he is reborn as an android in an imagined psychedelic cyberpunk landscape--replete with cyborgs, electro rock and surprising romantic reunions. Warring States Cyberpunk elaborates upon the artist's worldmaking feat, probing the exhibition's thematic subject matter through four scholarly essays and an interview with Kongkee"--
Item Description:"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk, presented at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from November 18, 2022 to January 23, 2023"--Colophon.
Foreword by Jay Xu; with contributions from Winnie Wong, Evelyn Char, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Kongkee (Kong Kong-chang), and Mario Tel̤.
Physical Description:187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781636812021
1636812023