Xiong HongGang:1 A continent of aesthetic excess

Abstract

Rather than a review of recent work, a process of being-with was enacted so the resulting text recorded or paid attention to the performative investments of both the act of painting and the imaginary it was immersed within rather than the completed aesthetic image. The writing dwells in the indirect or in between spaces that are invariably passed over because they lack or are in lack of conceptual ideation. Given the language barrier there was little by way of contextual discussion so the writing process started to follow the very same gestures that were witnessed within the unfolding encounter that traced the passage between there being nothing to there being something.