Abstract

The current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “Calligraphy and Performance Art in Contemporary China from Blackened Writing to Gender Identity” (Italian Association for Chinese Studies. Selected Papers 5, Venezia: Cafoscarina). It collects the metadata descriptions of the main artworks/series analysed in the publication as formalised in the “WRITE digital archive”, that is the semantic web digital archive of the WRITE project (G.A. 949645). Each jsonld file contains the metadata related to the artwork(s)/series itself/themselves, its author(s), its Calli-Writing Unit(s) (CWU – artwork content unit with calligraphic features), and, if any, related exhibition(s), artwork(s), and literary work(s).The artworks/series were selected from a large number of works included in the archive as the most representative of the new forms of calligraphy emerged in the context of performance art. The dataset also includes the transcription of the two artists’ interviews cited in the publication.