Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung "The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages"

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In this thangka inspired collage Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei is cast as Hayagriva - a representation of an angry Guan Yin in Chinese Buddhism. He is holding the following weapons with his six arms: An iPhone “Facing Time” with Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, a Twitter bird, a Lightsaber, a Chinese calligraphy brush, Scales of Justice, and a laptop with Grass Mud Horse graphics on the screen. Grass Mud Horse is the icon of citizens’ resistance to censorship.

In his new exhibition The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung takes on the increasingly pervasive, draconian censorship of the Internet in China and Chinese government restrictions of freedom of expression. Through a series of dense collages, a video animation, and a sculpture of a ping-pong table where the net is replaced by a model of The Great Wall of China, Hung delivers a visual battlefield of biting political satire. Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era.” Like Hartfield, who developed photomontage technique and turned it into a form of social critique, Hung’s meticulously researched works, composed entirely of imagery appropriated from online sources, expose injustice, corruption and hypocrisy, reflect on a call for social change, and direct attention to issues of today, which are bound to have historical impact. Tin-Kin Hung was born in Hong Kong and now lives in New York.

More information: http://www.tinkin.com/arts/the-travelogue-of-dr-brain-damages/

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from May 26, 2011 to July 09, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-05-26 from 18:00 to 20:00

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