Carol Yinghua Lu

21/12/11

Carol Yinghua Lu is a contributing editor of frieze. Here her selections include an artist project by Barbara Bloom, interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy and Boris Groys, and a round-table on ‘super-hybridity’.

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    Please Release Me by Jennifer Higgie

    Issue 103, November–December 2006

    Why do so many galleries and museums describe art in language that sucks the life out of it?

  • 2

    Game Theory by Jan Verwoert

    Issue 114, April 2008

    The social experiments Artur Zmijewski documents in his provocative videos reveal disquieting aspects of human nature

  • 3

    Death Becomes Them by Jennifer Allen

    Issue 114, April 2008

    Recent years have seen a rise in panel discussions about the demise of art criticism - while the birth of the curator-critic has passed largely unremarked

  • 4

    Errant Children by Jan Verwoert

    Issue 115, May 2008

    Can a piece of writing ever precisely convey what the writer wants it to?

  • 5

    Who Do You Think You're Talking To? by Brian Dillon and Boris Groys

    Issue 121, March 2009

    A conversation

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    Polyphilo's Children by Diedrich Diederichsen

    Issue 122, April 2009

    In the 1940s Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer defined the culture industry as a combination of cinema and radio. How has the Internet affected new definitions of a contemporary culture industry? The imaginary architecture in a 15th-century book may provide the answer

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    Analyze This by Jörg Heiser, Ronald Jones, Nina Power, Seth Price, Sukhdev Sandhu and Hito Steyerl

    Issue 133, September 2010

    A round table discussion on ‘super-hybridity’: what is it and should we be worried?

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    Believe It Or Not by Dan Fox

    Issue 135, November–December 2010

    Religion versus spirituality in contemporary art

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    Here to Eternity by Jean-Luc Nancy and Erik Morse

    Issue 135, November 2010

    French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about subjects ranging from everyday life to film, the body and the soul

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    Artist Project by Barbara Bloom

    Issue 138, April 2011

    In this project for frieze, created together with writer Susan Tallman, Bloom – who is referred to throughout as ‘BB’ – presents selections from her 2008 installation and book The Collections of Barbara Bloom, a work about ‘the way things carry ideas’

About the contributor Carol Yinghua Lu

Carol Yinghua Lu is a contributing editor of frieze based in Beijing, China and one of the five curators chosen to be Joint Artistic Directors of the 9th Gwangju Biennale 2012.

Favourite cover

Frieze Issue 121 cover

Issue 121, March 2009