Eight Moments

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China has pioneered a type of censorship that works by stealth. In this system that leaves no paper trail, organizations are tasked with either carrying out government orders—or face grave if unarticulated consequences. Philip Tinari’s talk juxtaposed the removal of select artworks out of a major China-focused exhibition he had freshly co-curated at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, (through external pressures) with eight moments from his past six years of making exhibitions at UCCA in Beijing, when the institution encountered external pressure to alter or censor the content of its exhibitions, and how, working with artists, it responded.