Ten Thousand Waves

"Isaac Julien's new nine-screen installationTEN THOUSAND WAVES is to receive its world premiere at the Sydney Biennale in May, followed by its Chinese premiere in Shanghai to coincide with Expo 2010 and its UK premiere at the Hayward Gallery, London in October.

TEN THOUSAND WAVES features Maggie Cheung, Zhao Tao, Yang Fudong, and poems by Wang Ping as commissioned by Julien and was shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China's ancient past and present. Through an architectural installation the work explores the movement of people across countries
and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys."

Comment: the first i saw this large scale installation was in China 2010 before my arrival in America, and second time was the beginning of the 2011 in Miami. Julien as a western people, using the different perspective to describe the news that couple of fishermen died in the accident. he used the special Chinese poetry ways and images in this work. The surrounded videos and sounds provides viewers fantastic imaginary worlds.

Julie Rrap

"Sunbaker is almost like the innocence of the Australian landscape, the sun-worshipping body, and then there's this type of (Pearl John) body that's like it's washed up on shore," she says.

"Nonda and I got quite interested in this and we started to talk about the only people who can arrive (in Australia) now are like dead bodies because then they're not going to cause any problems. We had this whole rave then about what Australia is now, about Tampa and detention centres."

YES Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono's activities as an artist span a truly broad variety of genres: art, music, film, and performance. Her work over the past four decades has taken her around the world, in which process she has come to influence a great number of people, starting with John Lennon.

Back in November 1966, she exhibited her "Ceiling Painting" (or the "YES Painting") at the Indica Gallery of London. Viewers had to climb up a white ladder in the center of the room, from where a magnifying glass hanging from the ceiling allowed them to view the word "YES" written in tiny letters on a framed piece of paper affixed to the ceiling. In fact, the work brought Ono and John Lennon together for the first time - some say that she used the work to seduce the already-married Lennon. There is a famous episode in which Lennon, having climbed up the ladder and read what was written, said, "I would have been quite disappointed if it had said 'NO,' but was saved by the fact it said 'YES'," The two married in 1969.

"Grape Fruits" by Yoko Ono

"Grapefruit: Yoko Ono in 1964". The first survey of this kind, the exhibition will give an in-depth and comprehensive look at a pivotal year in the career of this internationally acknowledged artist. In 1964, two significant events took place: the collection of her instruction pieces, in the book Grapefruit, an important foundation for Ono’s body of work; 

George Herbert Easter Wings Pattern Poem 1633 (concrete poetry)

Description	English: Image of "Easter Wings", a "pattern poem" published in 1633 by George Herbert. As a pattern poem, the work is not only meant to be read, but its shape is meant to be appreciated: In this case, the poem was printed (original image here shownA) on two pages of a book, sideways, so that the lines suggest two birds flying upward, with wings spread out.
Date	Published in 1633
Source	The Noroton Anthology of Poetry, 4th edition, edited by Margaret Ferguson, et al., p 331, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1996)
Author	George Herbert (1593-1633), the poet who not only wrote the words but designed the look of the words on the page
Permission (Reusing this file)	Not necessary, image is of pages originally published in 1633; the immediate source (Noroton Anthology) merely reprints the original image

"A Little Fable" by Kafka

"A Little Fable" is a short story written by Franz Kafka between 1917 and 1923. The story, only one paragraph in length, was not published in Kafka's lifetime and first appeared in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (1931).

Plot introduction

A mouse laments its fate, stating that the world, which was once so large and frightening, has grown smaller and forced it into a narrow chamber where he must run into a trap. A cat retorts that to change its fate the mouse need only turn around, and eats it up.

The story

"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

Popular culture

A comics adaptation of the story, illustrated by Peter Kuper, is included in Give It Up!.