Beyond the Body

Volume 2, Number 4, December 2003
by Mark Bessire


Article Description

Mark Bessire's paper explores the notion of “transculturalism” in Gu Wenda's works which tend to parody the role of cultural colonialist from a suspended cultural position as a citizen of the diasporic world. In negotiating this position his work is considered to go “beyond the body.”


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Mark Bessire, transculturalism, united nations: babel of the millennium, hair, body, Gu Wenda, symposium, Wenda Gu: from middle kingdom to biological millennium, Kansas City Art Institute, H&R Block Artspace