User:Sslwelland/gap analysis

He Chengyao

 * What is the title of the article where you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what is should the title be?

He Chengyao


 * Document the gap you found, describes how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

When I checked Wikipedia for He Chengyao (何成瑶), one of the Chinese feminist artists who has played a significant role in my research, I discovered that she does not have her own article. While she began her career as an oil painter, which is the medium she trained in at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Art, she transitioned into performance art after an impromptu action using her own nude body on the Great Wall in 2001. She later titled the performance Opening the Great Wall (开放长城). After that I decided to check the Wikipedia entry for Performance_art, and was shocked (or maybe not) that HA Schult's piece Trash People installed on the Great Wall in 2001 is given as an example of 1990s performance art. First, this piece strikes me as more an installation/sculptural piece than a performance piece. Second, this is exactly the piece, accompanied by the media attention attracted by a German artist on the Great Wall of China, that enraged He Chengyao so much that she tore off her shirt and walked topless through his installation, effectively stealing his thunder and the cameras that then focused on her body. This action initiated her own now substantial career as a performance artist in which she always uses her own body as part of the live action piece. I was also surprised (or maybe not) to discover that a linked Wikipedia article on Performance_art_in_China does not include He Chengyao, even though she has been an important figure in this scene. I propose that an article be created about her, that she be added to the Performance_art article, specifically in relation to the HA Schult piece that she serves as Chinese feminist foil to, and to the Performance_art_in_China page. My paragraph below proposes the framework for a new article on her to be added to Wikipedia. Once this page is created, she should be linked to the other articles discussed above.


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