Conference
Negotiating Difference
Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context
Admission free
Program:
9:00 Introduction – Birgit Hopfener (Freie Universität Berlin)
I. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Transnational and Transcultural Context. Agents of Cultural Translation
Panel Ia: Multiple Modernities
9:20 Landscapes of Exclusion: The No Name Group and Multiple Modernities, Juliane Noth (Freie Universität Berlin)
9:40 The Road of China's Modern Art: Self-Consciousness and Four Isms, Wang Ruiyun (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing)
10:00 Panel Response – Gao Minglu (University of Pittsburgh)
Panel Ib: Processes of Identification
10:50 Destroy the Mirror of Representation. Negotiating Installation Art in the ‘Third Space’, Birgit Hopfener (Freie Universität Berlin)
11:10 Cai Guoqiang’s Fireworks: Igniting a Paranational Landscape, Brianne Cohen (University of Pittsburgh)
11:30 Panel Response – John Clark (University of Sydney)
II. The Negotiation of Tradition
12:00 At the Threshold of (In-)Visibility. The White Landscape Paintings by Qiu Shihua, Silke von Berswordt (Art Collection of Ruhr Universität Bochum)
12:20 When Contemporary Art Encounters a National Treasure. Fan Kuan’s Travelers Within Mountains and Streams, Wang Ching-ling (Freie Universität Berlin)
12:40 Panel Response – Uta Rahman-Steinert (Asian Art Museum, Berlin)
III. Concepts of Body and Gender in Chinese Contemporary Art
Panel IIIa:
14:00 Ziran in Contemporary Chinese Art, Wang Ruobing (University of Oxford)
14:20 Expressions of Body and Gender in Chinese Contemporary Art, Doris Ha-lin Sung (York University)
14:40 Panel Response – Juliane Noth (Freie Universität Berlin)
Panel IIIb:
15:30 Masquerading Brides and Grooms: An Analysis of Three Art Portraits in the Media of Photography, Eva Aggeklint (Stockholm University)
15:50 A Question of Desire: Women, Bodies and Performance Art in China, Adele Tan (Courtauld Institute, University of London)
16:10 Panel Response – Karin Gludovatz (Freie Universität Berlin)
IV. Contemporary Chinese Art and Its Spaces of Production
17:00 A History of Realism in Chinese Art Pedagogy. How Realism Affects Contemporary Art Production and Consumption, Lee Ambrozy (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing)
17:20 Made in China: Qiu Anxiong's "We are the World", Wenny Teo (University of London)
17:40 Panel Response – Pauline Yao (independent art critic and curator, Beijing)
The International Conference “Negotiating Difference. Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Context” is hosted by: Freie Universität Berlin, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Institute of Art History, East Asian Art History
Head: Prof. Dr. Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch
Conference Concept: Birgit Hopfener, Franziska Koch
Conference Organisation: Ronald Kiwitt, Juliane Noth
More information:
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/khi/abteilung_ostasien
www.fu-berlin.de/conference-negotiating-difference