Tag: Ch’an
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[AF Forum 10] Michael Zheng: Ch’an, the Beginner’s Mind, and Conceptual Art
Conceptual artist Michael Zheng will be joined in conversation by art critic Max Blue. The two will explore Zheng’s art and influences, approaching the conversation openly from the Buddhist position of the “beginner’s mind,” each bringing their own expertise – overlapping and mutually exclusive – to bear on the subject matter. Beginning with Zheng’s recent…
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[AF Forum 09] Michael Zheng: Ch’an Buddhism the Present Moment, and Conceptual Art
Conceptual artist Michael Zheng will introduce how some of the key concepts in Ch’an Buddhism such as “the Present Moment” and meditation have been influencing his art creation. Using the site-specific installation works from his latest solo exhibition “A Tree Is a Tree” at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco, he will illustrate how unassuming…
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Ch’an, the Beginner’s Mind, and Conceptual Art: A Conversation between Artist Michael Zheng and Critic Max Blue
Michael Zheng DOI: 10.64212/SBMD9300 The second article in this column is based on a forum organized by the Art Frontier, in which art critic Max Blue and artist Michael Zheng engaged in conversations around the topic of “Ch’an Buddhism (禪宗)’s influence on conceptual art”. Owing to its vicinity to Asia, the West Coast of the United…