Nie Jing (聶鼱, Mouse with Multiple Ears, or Vacanti Mouse)

Qiu Anxiong, artist

born 1972

Nie Jing (聶鼱, Mouse with Multiple Ears, or Vacanti Mouse), 2008

Portfolio/Series title: Xin Shanhai Jing 新山海经 (New Book of Mountains and Seas)

Where object was made: China

Material/technique: woodcut; rice paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 420 x 500 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 16 9/16 x 19 11/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 497 x 577 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 9/16 x 22 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2009.0111.10

Not on display

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Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia

This print portfolio suggests a traditional Chinese book, but depicts the fantastical creatures featured in chapter one of Qiu Anxiong’s video trilogy The New Book of Mountains and Seas. Each of the bizarre creatures is accompanied by an inscription using archaic terminology and composed in classical Chinese that simulates the Shanhai Jing, a second-century geographic text describing strange creatures in distant lands, upon which the name of the video trilogy is derived.
Mouse with Multiple Ears, or Vacanti Mouse (聶鼱, Nie Jing)
In Zhongtu [Middle Land, a reference to China], there is a mouse with a human ear growing on its back. Its name is Nie Jing [Mouse with Multiple Ears, or Vacanti Mouse].

Exhibition Label:
"Qiu Anxiong: New Book of Mountains and Seas," Feb-2010, Kris Ercums
Inscription:
In the middle lands there is a rat. On its back there is a human ear. It is called the Nie Rat.