X Zhu-Nowell Is Remaking Rockbund, From Admissions to the Archive

On October 31, the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai anticipated Shanghai Art Week by opening three exhibitions from two artists that may be alienating many of the well-heeled collectors in town for West Bund Art & Design and ART021. For “Kit Yi Wong: BANK-A-OKE,” the artist turned the museum’s main entrance into a branch of the Bank of Karaoke. Visitors can sing into machines designed to resemble ATMs, thereby depositing their voices. Its companion piece “TEM-PLE-OKE,” is set in a temple, and said to have been made by an artist named “Wong Kit Yi.” Upstairs, “Jota Mombaça: stuck in movement (in the tide)” is the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition in Asia. It’s an opera, but instead of singers there are hand-formed earthen mounds that have sound systems concealed inside them. All this might feel more at home in an edgy gallery in New York’s Chinatown. In fact, the Rockbund Art Museum, known as RAM, is a respected international institution located in a tony part of Shanghai.

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