Selected images from the exhibition Translated Acts, curated by Yu Yeon Kim at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Queens Museum of Art in 2001.
The experimental art scene in post-Tiananmen China has featured an array of animal bodies, both living and dead, as well as interspecies encounters ranging from the playful to the sadistic, from the gently collaborative to the violently conflictual, which interrogate and destabilize contemporary constructions of the nature-culture binary.