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Issue 3: Unresolve

Diphylleia grayi: In-between

A reflection on thresholds through an intertwined practice of drawing and embroidery, exploring the relationship between line, body, intimacy and existence.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

We are the same, we are different.

Meng Xu and Jing Pu discuss their family relationships. We explored the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

We are the same, we are different.

Jing Pu and Meng Xu discuss their family relationships. We explore the different ways in which single-child families and multi-child families handle the same thing and how this affects personality.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Unnatural Distinction

This essay explores the decline of ecosystems in the post-human era, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, accessing digital technology to create a series of scenic fragments about ecological crisis.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

There is an ocean between you and me 

An essay discussing how artists and audiences rely on works of art to complete invisible conversations.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

The Art of Imagery in Drawing: Landscape of Memory

This essay discusses my research on the art of imagery in the creation of drawings, which is combined with examples of artworks and my personal artistic practice to discuss the influence of landscape, imagery, and picturesque concepts on my creative thinking.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

The concept of family equality in modern society

This essay combines author articles, sociological research, and personal experiences with numerous sociological papers to investigate the author’s perspectives on their upbringing.

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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Installation and Fictioning for Engagement, Social Justice, and Change.

This essay discusses why the ‘artistic interventions’ of installation, and ‘fictioning’ are particularly suitable when the work is underpinned by social justice concerns and has the aim of engaging dialogue for change.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

A Conversation about Reincarnation

Yifei Sun and Jingyu Niu discuss their research on personal secrets and the Buddhist realm. They explore confessions of past experiences, negative emotions, struggles with desires, reincarnation and future lives.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Performance as gentle resistance

This article will analyse performance art as a gentle rebellion and messages of noncooperation from the artworks by artists and non-artists.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Digital Religion Bible

For the research festival, I wrote a book based on my central topic — the Bible of Digital religion. I hope that by spreading this Digital Religion Bible, more people can learn about digital religion.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

tbc

A record of immediate thoughts on the author’s own works, creative process and art from a first-person perspective; reflects on the art and artworks that the author has seen and heard with one’s consciousness which carries the author’s subjective recognition.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

A conversation about reincarnation

Jingyu Niu and Yifei Sun discuss their research on personal secrets and the Buddhist realm. They explore confessions of past experiences, negative emotions, struggles with desires, reincarnation and future lives.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

AROUND ABOUT

Multiplicity of bodies in the space between subject and object. Sphere as allegory for an existence between internal and external, in and out. The body as globe, ball, orb, bubble, foam, etc.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

The Importance of Touch: Rubbing, Printmaking and the Expanded Field of Drawing in my Practice

This essay will discuss my research into touch as a means of exploring the world. It will talk about my practice in relation to rubbing, casting, imprints and printmaking in the expanded field of drawing.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Depicting Impermanence

A discussion on the conceptual idea and various means of depicting time in contemporary art and the artist’s own practice