Disjuncture—Tradition—Indirectness

Qiu Anxiong is a video, animation and installation artist who lives and works in Shanghai. He was born in Sichuan, China in 1972 and studied initially at the Sichuan Academy of Art in Chongqing from where he graduated in 1994. Qiu later studied at the Kunsthochschule of the University of Kassel in Germany, graduating in 2003. In this conversation, which was recorded at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Qiu talks among other things about the significance of his video work Jiang Nan Poem (2005) , his commitment to Buddhism and his eschewal of oppositional forms of criticism.