Xiao Xiao: The Reception of Ganying in Günther Uecker’s Perceptual Approach

Xiao Xiao’s research project, entitled The Reception of Ganying in Günther Uecker’s Perceptual Approach, is concerned with philosophical concepts originating in the East Asian region. The focus of her analysis, an outgrowth of her doctoral dissertation, is on the intriguing affinity between the spiritual notions of “action” in the Chinese Daoist tradition and Uecker’s artistic practice. In her work, Xiao Xiao reveals how the concepts of wu wei [non-doing], ziran [from itself], and especially ganying [correlative resonance] make determinable movements of thought that are also deeply imbedded in Uecker’s creative processes.