Autonomous Action: New Chinese Art on Video | 1999

Published 1999 by Artspace 
25 pages
146 x 210mm, softcover with black and white illustrations
Edited by Robert Leonard and Kelly Carmichael
With contributions by Richard Dale
Designed by Meg Liptrot
ISBN 0-9583738-8-4

The artists in Autonomous Action focus on action as the principle means of artistic expression, using the body as a site for aesthetic, political, philosophical and psychological speculation. Powerful, unpredictable and sometimes controversial, Autonomous Action reflects a current group of prolific and committed avant-garde artists operating out of a country still in the throes of rapid economic and social change.

Includes work by Li Yongbin, Lin Yilin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Xu Bing and Zhan Wang.