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Art and the New Culture City: Hong Kong, China and the Global Art System
Video presentations from the October 3, 2008 conference at the University of Southern California.
April 28, 2009
Carolyn Cartier organized this conference which received support from the East Asian Studies Center, U.S.-China Institute, Visual Studies Program, and Provost Distinguished Visitors Program. In addition to the conference, Choi Yan Chi's exhibition "A Presentation of Flowers" was shown in the Lindhurst Gallery at the School of Architecture.
Panel 1:
Choi Yan Chi, "HK 97+10': Art and the City In-Between"
Choi is an artist, curator, and professor. She has been active in the Hong Kong arts community since the early 1980s. She's received numerous awards and has exhibited her work on four continents. In 1998, she helped launch and now leads 1A Space, a progressive arts organization. Prof. Choi teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University and was selected as a USC Provost Distinguished Visitor.
Matthew Turner, "Beyond Beyond"
Turner is a professor of design in Napier University's School of Creative Industries.In 2005 he served as director of the Hong Kong Art School. He was educated as a painter and designer. He previously taught at the Edinburgh College of Art and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Panel 2:
Richard Kraus, "Rise of China as an Aesthetic Question"
Kraus is professor of political science at the University of Oregon. He has written or edited five books: Class Conflict in Chinese Socialism (Columbia, 1981); Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music (Oxford, 1989); Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (California, 1991); Urban Spaces: Autonomy and Community in Contemporary China (with Deborah Davis, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry, Cambridge, 1995); and The Party and the Arty: How Money Relaxes Political Control over China's Arts (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Meiling Cheng, "Multicentric Themes in Chinese Time-based Art"
Cheng has taught in the USC School of Theatre since 1994. She teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, contemporary kinesthetic theatre and live art, and visual studies. She's the author of In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art (California, 2002) and numerous performance reviews. She's currently at work on Beijing Xingwei, for which she received Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Panel 3:
Choi Yan Chi, "Hong Kong Art Outside the Limelight"
Click here to see Prof. Choi's presentation.
Panel 4:
Henry Tsang, "When East Really is West: A Look at Some Models of Cultural DupliCities"
Tsang has worked in installation, video, and photography. He has also curated exhibitions. His work touches on popular imagery such as the Olympics and video piracy. His work has been shown in Europe and Canada. His presentation includes a look at Orange County, California and Beijing gated communities. Tsang heads critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art & Design.
Carolyn Cartier, "The Struggle to Make Space for Art in an Era of Creative Industry"
Cartier organized the conference. She is associate professor of geography at USC where she offers courses on globalization and the cultural and economic geographies of Asian cities. She's the author of Globalizing South China (Blackwell, 2001) and co-editor of The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity (Roman & Littlefield, 2003). She was a Fulbright scholar at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2005-2006.
Panel 5
Karon Morono, "Emergence: Contemporary Chinese Art in Beijing and LA"
Morono opened the Morono Kiang Gallery in the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles in May 2007. The gallery features contemporary Chinese art. She contributed to Beijing 798: Reflections on Art, Architecture and Society in China (Timezone, 2005).
Jenny Lin, "Hybridity as Cultural Capital"
Lin is a doctoral student in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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