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Art in America

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Mythical Mushrooms: Hybrid Perspectives on Transcendental Matters

“Mythical Mushrooms: Hybrid Perspectives on Transcendental Matters,” was accepted and posted on the Leonardo Just Accepted (JA) page, hosted by MIT Press. The Just Accepted system allows for early online publication of accepted papers considerably before print publication. Printed publication will be in 2023.

Abstract

This paper focuses on artist Xiaojing Yan’s own artistic practice. She cultivates a series of evocative sculptural works out of lingzhi fungus by designing a controlled, human environment that, over time, gives way to an organic process. This hybrid bio-art experimentation relies as much on science as it does on fate. Lingzhi holds cultural significance in Chinese culture and is called the mushroom of immortality. Yan’s works juxtapose Eastern mythology with contemporary culture to highlight environmental and social issues; her investigations with lingzhi mushrooms delve into the meaning of spirituality and metamorphoses and explore questions about being and becoming, art and nature, art and science, nature and existence.

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Art in America: Mushrooms as Metaphors

Mushrooms as Metaphors
By: Emily Watlington

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Xiaojing Yan: A Wanderer’s Mind

Xiaojing Yan: A Wanderer’s Mind
by Andrea Carson Barker

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Exhibition Catalogue – Xiaojing Yan: Auspicious Omens

Xiaojing Yan: Auspicious Omens
Suzhou Museum

Paperback: 114 pages
Publisher: Shanghai Paintings And Calligraphy Publishing House (2018)
Language: English and Chinese

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Art Monthly 画刊

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闫晓静：通感与灵光

闫晓静：通感与灵光
Art China-The Leading Contemporary Art Magazine in China
Vol 3. April 2018
《艺术当代》2018年第三期

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CANADIAN ART

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Akimbo.ca

By Terence Dick
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CBC Arts

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ARTCO CHINA 艺术典藏

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Review on Sculpture Magazine

Exhibition Review on Sculpture Magazine
October 2016 Vol. 35 No. 8
by Margaret Rodgers

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Of Clouds and Cocoons: Interview with Xiaojing Yan

Yishu – Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Volume 14, Number 4, July/August 2015
Of Clouds and Cocoons: Interview with Xiaojing Yan
by Matthew Ryan Smith

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