MAYDAY

NATURALISATION: exploring what it means to be British/Chinese by Anthony Key

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WOK/SATELLITE DISH (1996)
THREE LIONS ON A SHIRT (1996)

“Footballs coming home” is the first line to the English national football song.
SOY/KETCHUP (1997)

The word “ketchup” is derived from a Cantonese word meaning “thick tomato sauce.”
CULTURE TO GO (2002)

The artist recorded a three-day conference called Contemporary Chinese Arts in the International Arena held at the British Museum and after cut them up into eight-inch strips to represent brown soy noodles, and then placed these noodles into the new-style, microwaveable, plastic takeaway cartons. The eight ninety-minute audiotapes of the conference were transformed into eight takeaway dishes – in Chinese eating culture, eight dishes signify a banquet.
BREAD/NOODLES (1997)
BATTLE OF BRITAIN (2007)

The Chinese flags and military banners peppering this monumental table map of Great Britain (based on the original World War II Operations Room maps) carry the names of every Chinese restaurant in Britain, and are placed in all the cities, towns, and villages where the restaurants are based.

 

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Filed Under: Art

Further Reading

Untitled by Tatiana Neshumova
(Translated from Russian by J. Kates)

In my enormous head Winter dragged itself along. And the head was majestic. But an old man With blue eyes, chesty, Said nothing to me of being blind. And we ran off to his house. And I kissed His enormous head And his snow-white mouth. Already a year has passed since he died. But winter […]

WHAT JENNY TRIED TO SAY by David Dasher

summer leaves have two faces: toward the sun they swelter grim as anyone can; in the wind-pushed rain they jump & run & their dull pallor brightens the sudden light and the sudden dark. also the black streets are silvered, the thick yellow sun-cages dissolved into gray distances. my love and my joy, which are […]

JOHN LATTA’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”

Examens Négatifs: A Roster Incompleat Of course what is duly (and dully) lacking in poetry-reviewing (genus norteamericano) is the sublime (awe-striking) negative: it resides in (and emerges out of) the rhubarb and hubbub of regular, aggressively independent, and bravely committed engagement (and retaliatory exchange) with the contemporary (increasingly international) scene, a poking into all the various corners of […]

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