M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, will present the ninth of the M+ MATTERS series, “Expanding the 1980s: The Landscape of Art in China and East Asia”, on 13 January 2015. M+ MATTERS is a series of public talks organised by M+ to explore relevant, timely and critical issues with leading scholars and curators in the fields of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. Following the highly popular two-part symposia around the question of globalisation of contemporary art, as the finale for the 2014-2015 series, “Expanding the 1980s: The Landscape of Art in China and East Asia” will return the focus close to home, to the development of contemporary Chinese art in relation to its surrounding countries during the crucial transitional period of the 1980s. “Beginning with a look at the political and cultural changes during the decade in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the symposium aims to examine the subtle ties between contemporary Chinese art and the modernist movements from the pre-war period, and explore the different individual art practices in terms of how they were influenced by political transitions in history,” said Dr Pi Li, Sigg Senior Curator (Visual Art), M+. The speakers of “Expanding the 1980s: The Landscape of Art in China and East Asia” are Kim Heejin, independent curator and writer /guest curator at Asian Culture Complex, Gwangju, Korea, Victor Lai, associate professor at the Academy of Visual Arts of the Hong Kong Baptist University, Shen Kuiyi, director of Chinese Studies Program and professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the UC San Diego, USA, and Yu Wei, PhD candidate in Humanities and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck (London Consortium), University of London, UK). Details: Date: 13 January 2015, Tuesday Time: 7pm – 9pm Venue: agnès b. CINEMA, Hong Kong Arts Centre (2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong) Language: English, with Cantonese simultaneous interpretation Admission: Free, but registration is required via westkowloon.hk/mplusmatters Further information can be found at mplusmatters.hk .
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:00:00 +0000
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