Modern Monsters: Death and Life of Fiction

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Modern Monsters: Death and Life of FictionDeparting from the figure of the Taowu, a Chinese mythological monster of evil inclination used recently by historians and writers to symbolize the violent fate of Chinese utopian modernity, this publication interrogates the role of systemic and structural violence in the making of modernity and its artistic representations, and uses the monster as a vantage point to capture global dimensions of the current crisis of social imaginaries. 300 pages, 18

a colourful cabaret of things

which links musical theatre

They show items which the inmates made secretly in their cells using the crudest of tools and materials – and which were subsequently confiscated

"On Saturday

and Irene von Zahn

which frequently incorporates drawing

With contextual analysis of the political economy of the arts

moments of domestic calm

Textiles that crossed the world long before today’s globalisation can also tell tales of the multiple forms and consequences of colonialist policies

ecological aspects of materials

Melbourne artist Eliza Hutchison has worked to slice

depicting Ginza street in contemporary Tokyo