#chinamaxxing | Exhibition Opening @ TIAT
A group exhibition on view 9/25 - 10/17 at TIAT in SF ⭑.ᐟ
Drink hot water. Learn the characters. Buy the robot dog. Imagine the future happening somewhere else.
Earlier this year, “Chinamaxxing” emerged online as a playful embrace of contemporary China—its technology, infrastructure, food, fashion, and everyday life. But what, exactly, are you embracing—a culture, an aesthetic, a political possibility, a different version of yourself? And how does that invitation feel when the culture being discovered is already your own?
Across sculpture, moving image, poetry, performance, and interactive systems, Chinamaxxing follows objects, technologies, and rituals as they travel across borders. The artists explore what gets translated, imitated, misunderstood, or made intimate along the way.
The exhibition asks what we want from China, and what we might discover beyond wanting.
⭑.ᐟ Run of Show
7:00pm Doors ( & mooncakes as supplies last)
7:30pm Cheryl (Xuan) Yang - The Peacock Flies Southeast
7:35pm Artist Talks
⭑.ᐟ Featuring artworks from:
Ago - HOST/GRAFT
Anna Zhang - I ♥ CHINA
Aung Nyein Chan (Enchax) - Last Name, Chan
Becky Button - tea synthesizer
Danielle Baskin - a beautiful day is coming
Danlin Huang - Body Oracle
Dann Disciglio - I Like China and China Likes Me
Darren Zhu - 牛BS
Devin Wilson - Pigeon Drone
Elisa Lupin-Jimenez | Joy He | Vivian Lu | Kenya - Tributary
Guo Teng Liang - Made in China
Jade Q Wang - The search for immortality
Jiabao Li - Toss Pan Dance
Joanna Lyu - down the douyin rabbit hole
Kat Zhang (The Poet Engineer) - Living Characters
Kels Chen - lineage holder
Ketty Haolin Zhang - prize winning pizza memories; my greatest find, I; my greatest find, II
Mona Wang | Kerem Goksel - calligraphy machine
Qianwen Yu - Butterfly Chronicles (蝶生纪)
Snow - Dream(夢)
Sophia Meng - Cupertino Infinity Loop Apple Campus Birdseye View, Turned 90°
Viola He - qzone2000
Weichen Zhou - Ritual as Method
Wendi Yan 颜文笛 and Yi Xie 谢羿 - Inner Carbon
Yuehao Jiang - Shanzhai Remix 山寨合集
Ziyuan “Zoey” Zhu - Mouse Mouse Club 鼠鼠俱乐部
With drinks from KULE, a food and beverage brand inspired by Chinese herbal tradition. Developed alongside eastern medicine practitioners, KULE’s fruit-forward sparkling herbal teas make it easy and delicious to bring 2000 years of herbal tradition into your daily life.
⭑.ᐟ #Chinamaxxing Exhibition Programming
In conjunction with the exhibition, join us for a series of events that dive deeper into its themes.
Extending on her recently published New Yorker article, Afra Wang joins us for an insider scoop on China's AI rush.
Xiaowei Wang (of blockchain chicken farm) joins us for a workshop on mugwort and ritual technologies
Sabrina Long presents a beginner friendly introduction to traditional Chinese medicine
Learn how artists manufacture in China! A conversation with Danielle Baskin and Taylor Tabb.
An experimental lecture by Kelsey Chen on why Americans are Chinamaxxing: from D.T. Suzuki’s teachings on Zen Buddhism to tea ceremony and Daoist breathwork practices, Bay area counterculture in the 1960s took inspiration from Eastern esoteric traditions ... and how the romance of the East has often furnished the most radical dreams of Western civilization’s discontents.
and more tba ...
⭑.ᐟ WTF is TIAT ?
tiat is the intersection of art & technology! we are an experimental gallery for creative technologists to experiment, exhibit, and expand their practice. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ tiat is 501c3 nonprofit, our EIN is: 39-3448606. tiat.place