Education Kit

This education kit is designed for use in the exhibition, INK REMIX: Contemporary art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and your classroom, framed by the Australian Curriculum.

The kit includes images of selected works of art and engaging activities with a particular focus on visual arts concepts and techniques. 

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Charwei Tsai (蔡 佳 葳)  - Born 1980

Links

• Charwei Tasi’s website: http://charwei.com/
• Bonsai series: http://charwei.com/projects/bonsai-series-lithos/
• Tofu mantra video: http://charwei.com/projects/tofu-mantra-2005-video/
• Mushroom mantra: http://charwei.com/projects/mushroom-mantra-2005/
• Andy Goldsworthy: https://secure.flickr.com/groups/andygoldsworthy/pool/
• Christo and Jean-Claude: http://christojeanneclaude.net/
• Judy Watson: http://nga.gov.au/landscapes/Wat.htm
• Jenny Holzer: http://projects.jennyholzer.com/
• Jasper Johns: http://www.jasper-johns.org/

Other works in exhibition

• Charwei TSAI, Tofu Mantra, 2005, single channel video. Collection of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
• Charwei TSAI, Incense Mantra, 2013, single channel video. In collaboration with Tsering Tashi Gyalthang.
• Charwei TSAI, Bonsai Series III – no. III, 2011, black ink on lithographs, 26 x 31 cm.
• Charwei TSAI, Bonsai Series III – no. VI, 2011, black ink on lithographs, 26 x 31 cm.
• Charwei TSAI, Bonsai Series III – no. IX, 2011, black ink on lithographs, 26 x 31 cm.

Yao Jui-chung (姚 瑞 中) - Born 1969

Links

• Yao Jui-chung’s website: http://www.yaojuichung.com/
• Essay about Yao Jui-chung by Wang Powei in 2013:http://www.yaojuichung.com/pdf/cn/from_art_to_culture_how_yao_juichung_opens_up_long_live_landscape.pdf
• Shi Tao: http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-shi-tao.php
• Dong Qichang: http://www.britannica.com/biography/Dong-Qichang
• Laith McGregor: http://laithmcgregor.blogspot.com.au/ and https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artist/mcgregor-laith/
• Li Cheng: http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-li-cheng.php
• Fan Kuan: http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/4ptgnsla.htm
• Dong Yuan: http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-dong-yuan.php
• Juran: http://www.britannica.com/biography/Juran

Peng Wei (彭 薇) - Born 1974

Links

• Peng Wei’s website: http://www.pengwei.info/ 
• Body Series: http://www.pengwei.info/?p=1076
• Literati painting: http://www.asianbrushpainter.com/blog/knowledgebase/literati-painting/
• New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/arts/design/30arti.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

Other works in exhibition

• PENG Wei, Good Things Come in Pairs - no. 4, 2011-13, silk shoes with painted insoles, 23.5 x 17 x 4 cm.
• PENG Wei, Good Things Come in Pairs - no. 5, 2011-13, silk shoes with painted insoles, 24 x 17.5 x 5 cm.
• PENG Wei, Good Things Come in Pairs - no. 20, 2011-13, silk shoes with painted insoles, 24 x 17.5 x 4.5 cm.
• PENG Wei, Night of July 7th, 2009, bust with rice paper, 65.5 x 33 x 19cm.
• PENG Wei, Tang Dynasty Polo, 2011, Sergio Rossi boots and rice paper, 60 x 25 x 30 cm.

Ni Youyu (倪 有 鱼) - Born 1984

Links

• Images of Ni Youyu’s work (including Galaxy and Guanyin): http://www.guan-dian.org/ni-youyu/
• Marcel Duchamp: http://www.marcelduchamp.net/
• Fiona Hall: http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/fiona-hall
• Justine Smith: http://www.justinesmith.net/about/
• Mark Wagner: http://markwagnerinc.com/ and https://vimeo.com/79148964
• Meret Oppenheim: http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/meret-oppenheim-object-paris-1936
• Roaslie Gascoigne: https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artist/gascoigne-rosalie/
• Tony Albert: http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=190246

He Xiangyu (何 翔 宇) - Born 1986

Links

• Information about a 2014 exhibition of He Xiangyu’s work:http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/he_xiangyu_inside_the_white_cube_2014/
• Guo Xi: http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-guo-xi.php
• Andy Warhol: http://www.warhol.org/collection/aboutandy/biography/
• Wang Guangyi: https://teachartwiki.wikispaces.com/Great+Criticism+Coca-Cola--Wang+Guangyi andhttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/multicultural_art/artists/lang_text/text_art11_wang.html
• Ai Weiwei: http://aiweiwei.com/

Other works in exhibition

He Xiangyu, Everything we create is not ourselves, 68-2, 2013-14, ink, watercolour,
pencil on paper and inkjet prints, 31 x 41 cm each x 68 pieces.  

Chen Shaoxiong (陈 劭 雄) - Born 1962

Links

• Creative Time Summit, Resistors: Chen Shaoxiong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtPwkfWbDU
• Ink Media video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1DUYINqJM
• Ink History video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrqIOFL8Z6o
• Video featuring ‘You know things are messed up when Librarians Start Marching’:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuI8dz_hwwQ
• Guerrilla Girls: http://www.guerrillagirls.com/
• Tracey Moffatt, Fourth series: http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/26/Tracey_Moffatt/12/32598/
• Actipedia: http://actipedia.org/

Other works in exhibition

• Chen Shaoxiong, Ink History, 2008-10, single channel video animation.

Curriculum links

The INK REMIX education kit offers many links with the Australian Curriculum from Years 7 to 10 through The Arts, History and Languages. The discussion questions for use in the exhibition and student activities for use in the classroom are designed to promote student engagement, in particular, for Visual Arts:

Years 7 and 8

Develop ways to enhance their intentions as artists through exploration of how artists use materials, techniques, technologies and processes (ACAVAM119)

Develop planning skills for art-making by exploring techniques and processes used by different artists (ACAVAM120)

Practise techniques and processes to enhance representation of ideas in their art-making (ACAVAM121)

Present artwork demonstrating consideration of how the artwork is displayed to enhance the artist’s intention to an audience (ACAVAM122)

Analyse how artists use visual conventions in artworks (ACAVAR123)

Identify and connect specific features and purposes of visual artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints and enrich their art-making, starting with Australian artworks including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR124)

Years 9 and 10

Manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and represent their own artistic intentions (ACAVAM126)

Develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter (ACAVAM127)

Plan and design artworks that represent artistic intention (ACAVAM128)

Present ideas for displaying artworks and evaluate displays of artworks (ACAVAM129)

Evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view to inform their future art making (ACAVAR130)

Analyse a range of visual artworks from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their visual art-making, starting with Australian artworks, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and consider international artworks (ACAVAR131)

INK REMIX education kit also provides opportunities to explore the cross curriculum priority: Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia. The activities in the kit allow students to develop an understanding of the achievements of artists in mainland China and Taiwan.

Works of art created by Visual Arts students in Year 9 at Gold Creek High

Students created works using ink and watercolour imagining unknown worlds in Asia, in response to Yao Jui-Chung’s Yao’s journey to Australia in the exhibition INK REMIX.