Beyond Codes and Aesthetics with Evonne Yuan | Art Focus, Spoken.

In this episode we spoke with Evonne Jiawei Yuan about art market performance during Covid, collecting digital art, and art-tech collaborations. Some of the biggest questions surrounding NFTs today revolves around the idea of ownership in a world where everything flows freely on the internet. This conversation explored some of the key ideas of collecting new media art, such as encoding exclusivity, certifying orginal ownership, and setting price points of digital art sold through galleries.

About the speaker:
Evonne graduated from Fudan University with B.A. in Museology, The Courtauld Institute of Art with M.A. in History of Art, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture with M.A. in History & Critical Thinking. Her current research interests include the architectural media in-and-of contemporary art, (post)modern spatial concepts, border aesthetics and its geopolitics. During her career at Don Gallery, Shanghai, she curated exhibitions “Shanghai Dandy” (2017) as well as “Steadfastly Raise the Standards in Nonproductive Construction.” Her articles have been featured in artforum, Artsy Magazine, ArtChina, LEAP, and so on. Evonne now works for Long March Space in Beijing. She recently curated the exhibition "Joshua Nathanson: Wildfire Delivery" at Brownie Project Gallery.


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Photo credit: Fei Yining and Chuck Kuan, "Breakfast Ritual: Art Must be Artificial," video, 2019. From the UCCA Exhibition: Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art.

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2:07 - Long March Space and 798 galleries in Beijing reopen together amidst Covid
6:35 - Active art fairs in China when the rest of the world cancelled their art fairs
8:12 - Focus on the domestic art market
12:12 - Were art market goals achieved in 2020 despite Covid
13:15 - Accessing the emerging market of young collectors
14:49 - Collecting new media/digital artworks and price points
22:41 - Digital artists leverage the market
25:33 - Online viewing rooms, how artists are chosen, future directions
42:08 - Art collecting consumer behaviour in 2020
44:13 - Art-tech collaborations

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Art Focus, Spoken’s "Beyond Codes and Aesthetics" series explores innovative art-science collaborations and how they engage with contemporary society. This series offers an in-depth look into the realms of art-tech and how they come together to create unexpectedly interesting sparks, from the perspective of emerging artists, curators, and scientists.

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Resources:
G Museum: www.instagram.com/p/CC29zrCFASS/ (1:42)
Long March Space: longmarchspace.com
West Bund Art Fair: www.westbundshanghai.com
ART021: www.art021.org/en
David Altmejd: www.davidaltmejd.com
Yayoi Kusama: yayoi-kusama.jp/e/biography/index.html
KAWS: http://www.artnet.com/artists/kaws/
Qiao Zhibing: https://www.artnews.com/art-collector...
Time & Space Online Viewing Room: http://www.longmarchspace.com/en/view...
David Zwirner: https://www.davidzwirner.com/
Yu Hong: https://www.artsy.net/artist/yu-hong-...
Long Museum: www.thelongmuseum.org/en/
Zhang Shuang (Stella): https://www.artsy.net/show/nanhai-art...
Zhangya Dong: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1147107/
UCCA Computing Art Exhibition: ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/immaterial-re-material-a-brief-history-of-computing-art//
Liu Wa: www.liuwastudio.com/
Fei yining: yiningfei.com/fiprovisional
Hu Xiangqian: www.huxiangqian.net/