I recently went to Tang Contemporary, a gallery in 798 to see Xu Tan give a talk. As it turned out it was actually a group discussion. I was impressed by the interactive nature of his artwork/discussion and also how down to earth and perceptive he seemed. Out of curiosity I googled him and found that his Keywords project, which I had heard about from a friend, is up online. I would highly recommend exploring his keywords dictionary, which distills many of the conversations I find I have on a daily basis while in China (the positive, the negative and the confusing) and the phrases you hear so often that you could repeat them in your sleep (such as “fazhan,” to develop in the picture below).
Follow this link to the website to read the keyword dictionary entries.
Meili Paper 