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Everything is Relevant: Contents

Everything is Relevant

Contents

Plates

Acknowledgements

Preface by Ken Lum

Introduction by Kitty Scott
Ken Lum Loves to Write: Twenty-Seven Years of Essays, Reviews, and Critical Texts

1991–2000

Carnegie Library Project, 1991

Homes, 1993

Soft Landing, 1995

The Difference Between Art and Fact, 1995

Seven Moments in the Life of a Chinese Canadian Artist, 1997

6: New Vancouver Modern, 1998

The Ambivalent Gaze of Thomas Ruff, 1998

Dak’Art 98, The Dakar Biennale, 1998

On Board The Raft of the Medusa, 1999

Untitled, 1999

Canadian Cultural Policy: A Problem of Metaphysics, 1999

The London Art Diaries, 1999–2000

2001–2010

Inaugural Editorial, 2002

Prix de Rome Commentary, 2003

Aesthetic Education in Republican China: A Convergence of Ideals, 2004

Should Artists Be Curating the Next Documenta?, 2004

Surprising Sharjah, 2005

Art and Ethnology: A Relationship in Ironies, 2005

Unfolding Identities, 2005

Contemporary Art Within and Without Institutions, 2005

Gentle Indifference: The Art of Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, 2006

Something’s Missing, 2006

Encountering Chen Zhen: A Paris Portal, 2007

Visuality and Opticality in the Art of Tania Mouraud, 2009

Dear Steven, 2009

To Say or Not to Say, 2009

Barthes in Beijing, 2009

Melly Shum Hates Her Job but Not the Witte de With, 2010

Hope in Saint-Roch, 2010

2011–2018

The City of Brotherly Love, 2012

From Analog to Digital: A Consideration of Photographic Truth, 2012

Canadian Identity Debates Are Broken. Let’s Fix Them. 2013

Looking Up, 2013

Ian Wilson: From Chalk Circle to Full Circle, 2013

Some Reflections on Urban Public Art Today, 2014

Living in America, 2016

The Other in the Carpet, 2016

On Monument Lab, 2018

Tracking Colonialism from Delhi to Toronto: Edward VII in Queen’s Park, 2018

Me and Mel Chin, 2018

Eternal Glory to the People’s Heroes! On Beijing’s Monument to the People’s Heroes, 2018

Index

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