CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, still from Remote Nation, 2008, standard definition video loop, 13.56 min

CYRUS TANG’s work Remote Nation is currently showing at MS.SUE as part of the exhibition EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THE CURRENT.

The exhibition, part of the Due West Festival program, explores the emotional and social implications of moving between different states of being. When the flow of our existence is interrupted and relocated, the context shifts, and everything we knew then is no longer.

Tang’s video work Remote Nation shows a city made of clay gradually disintegrating underwater, thereby alluding to a fading sense of 'home'. The water, however, transforms the city into another state of existence. Tang says she is particularly moved by the residue left from the melted clay.

Curated by Nikki Lam, EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THE CURRENT is installed at multiple sites in central Footscray.

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GUO JIAN | CYRUS TANG | GUAN WEI | JOHN YOUNG

Not one, but four ARC ONE artists are included in the exhibition Between Two Worlds at Newcastle Art Gallery. GUO JIAN, CYRUS TANG, GUAN WEI & JOHN YOUNG are featured.

Between Two Worlds aims to promote the diversity of works of art being produced by Australian artists of Chinese heritage. The exhibition acknowledges the artists who have lived, worked and are connected to China and Australia through migration, major historical events and Australia’s agricultural and industrial developments.

On the opening Saturday, GUO JIAN will join a panel discussion that introduces the exhibition’s themes, along with curator Catherine Croll and fellow exhibiting artists Rowena Foong & Peter Gardiner.

This talk will run from 2 -3 pm on Saturday 16 November.

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Cyrus Tang, I wish..., 2019, 2 channel video projection.

CYRUS TANG is part of the group show The End/Future of History, open now at The Substation.

In this exhibition curated by Phuong Ngo, contemporary artists examine how rights are simultaneously upheld and violated by government. In an international system that has been dominated by Western ideology, a fundamental flaw exists with the administering of rights. It is a system where the guarantor of rights is almost always the key violator.

This exhibition explores Francis Fukuyama’s ideas on liberal democracies, their flaws and contradictions. It shows until 14 December. .

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Cyrus Tang, Topophilia 2, 2019, bronze, Paula Tsui’s cassette tape, crystal, mirror box, 44 x 43 x 61 cm

CYRUS TANG is one of five artists whose work makes up the new exhibition at RMIT Gallery Insistent Gestures. This exhibition brings together artists who live, work or were born in Asia to explore personal narratives.

The repetitive movements – or insistent gestures – of making carry a sense of ritual and intimate recollection that resonates with the artists’ personal histories. Here an insistent, female and labour creating subjectivity is woven into being.

Tang's bronze series Topophilia is on show, with nos. 1 & 2 visible through specially installed peepholes, and no.3 mounted on the wall.

The exhibition continues until 9 November.

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Cyrus Tang, 'The Imperative', HD video, 1.48 min

CYRUS TANG is supporting Sleepless Summer, a solidarity project bringing together artists from Hong Kong and Australia which endeavours to rally support for democracy protests in HK.

Curated by Nikki Lam, Sleepless Summer will present a group exhibition alongside a public program of artist discussions, performances and solidarity actions like protest-banner-making.

A selection of independent publications on Hong Kong's civil rights struggles, collected by Zine Coop, will also be presented.

Tang is showing her video work, The Imperative.

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Cyrus Tang, The Modern World Encyclopaedia Vol.2, 2017, cremated book ashes, book cover, dimensions variable.

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG, a finalist in this year's Banyule Award for Works on Paper.

The 2019 Banyule Award called on artists to submit artworks that address current social, cultural, political or environmental issues. In Tang's selected work, the artist has taken a 1936 encyclopaedia and burned and arranged its contents. In this transformation of material, she suggests that the knowledge of the past has disappeared and we have not learnt from history.

The finalist exhibition will run from 28 August at Hatch Contemporary Arts Space in Ivanhoe.

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CYRUS TANG | ANNE ZAHALKA

Cyrus Tang, Golden Hour - Summer Snow - 108 mins, 2018, archival pigment print, 65 x 65 cm.

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG and ANNE ZAHALKA, finalists in the 2019 Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture. 

The finalist exhibition will open on 12 July and continue until 22 September, with the winner announced at the exhibition opening at Tweed Regional Gallery on Saturday 13 July at 5pm.

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Anne Zahalka, The Ambassadors, 2017, pigment ink on canvas, 124 x 94.4 cm.

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN | CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, The Final Cast Off, 2016-17, 2 channel video projection on Chinese paper scroll, dimensions variable.

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN and CYRUS TANG are included in the Castlemaine State Festival, opening today.
In Tang's work 'The Final Cast Off', exhibited as part of the festival, the artist has used incense ashes mixed with charcoal to create the images of Alice and Daisy, who represent the new Chinese elite. The video work is a gesture of worship for these two incredible Chinese women.

The exhibition continues until 31 March.

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Cyrus Tang Exhibition installation view, Ten Cubed, Glen Iris, 2019. Photograph: Cyrus Tang.

CYRUS TANG will be giving an artist talk at Ten Cubed on Saturday 16 March, from 11am - 12pm.

Throughout her practice, Tang employs a range of variously permanent and ephemeral materials including clay, water, ash, steam, snow, human’s heartbeat, animal bones, and human hair. These produce a visual representation suggestive of the contrast and contradiction between appearance and disappearance, and between ephemerality and permanence.

Cyrus Tang's solo exhibition at Ten Cubed continues until 4 May.

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Review of exhibition, All that is solid... featuring CYRUS TANG (pictured), by Derek Schlennstedt for the Upper Yarra Mail. 

All that is solid... continues until 12 November 2017. 

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

We are pleased to announce that ARC ONE will be part of this year's Sydney Contemporary with works by Peter Daverington, Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Robert Owen, Nike Savvas, Cyrus Tang and John Young.

The art fair will take place from 7- 10 September at Carriageworks.

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Cyrus Tang, Remote Nation (still), 2008, SD video, 13:55mins.  

CYRUS TANG is exhibiting in the group exhibition Art? Art? Art..., curated by Jane Deeth, at Rosny Barn, Tasmania. 

The exhibition runs from 14 July to 13 Aug 2017. 

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