艺术评论家、策展人凯伦·史密斯是一位在北京工作的英国艺术史学家，主要研究改革开放以后的中国当代艺术。这本《发光体1号：亲历中国当代艺术现场》(世界图书出版公司出版)是她对2011年在中国展出的一批高水准艺术作品的介绍结集。凯伦·史密斯认为，她在书中介绍的这批高水准艺术作品，即便不都具有划时代意义，却都是非常优秀的作品，“它真正关注的是艺术。即使他们明天就逝去，这些中国艺术家创作的划时代的作品也将会被铭记”。

AS SEEN 2011 | Foreword

JIN SHAN | One Man's Island

DUAN JIANYU | The Seduction of Village

LIANG YUANWEI | Picture of Early Spring

CHEN CHIEH-JEN | Empire's Borders

LIU WEI | "Liu Wei"

PAN HONGGANG & HU YOUCHEN | Them or Us?

ZHOU YILUN | Ah!

HUANG KUI | My Projection is Focusing

LIU CHUANG | Untitled (The Festival)

MA QIUSHA | Twilight... / All My Sharpness...

WANG JIANWEI | Making do with Fakes

HE XIANGYU | Man on the Chairs

SHI QING | Plant Republic

ZHANG ENLI | Wires

MADEIN COMPANY | Physique and Action of Consciousness

SUN YANCHU | Obsessed

ZHAO YAO | I am Your Night

ZHANG PEILI | Certain Pleasures

HE AN | I Am Curious Yellow, I Am Curious Blue

ZHAO GANG | A Sick Man

ZHUANG HUI & DAN'ER | Chinese Silk

WANG WEI | Propaganda Pavilion

ANIWAR MAMAT | Wind without Rain

LIU WEI | Merely a Mistake

MUSEUM OF UNKNOWN | Pattern

SUN XUN \\ TANG MAOHONG \\ ZHANG DING | Huge Character

GAO LEI | The Principle

ZHAO ZHAO | According to Zhao Zhao

LU YANG | The Anatomy of Rage

XIAO YU | Go

WU SHANZHUAN \\ INGA SVALA THORSDOTTIR | Kuo Xuan

ZHANG DALI | World's Shadows

WANG XINGWEI | "Wang Xingwei"

SONG DONG | Waiting...

GAO WEIGANG | Everything isn't Gonna be Alright

YU JI | I Stand Alone

SONG YUANYUAN | Examining Object

ZHAN WANG | My Personal Universe

DING YI | Specific · Abstracted

LIN TIANMIAO | The Same

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