The Centre for Chinese Visual arts invites you to join Jiang Jiehong, Professor of Chinese Art at Birmingham City University, for a talk on the impact of urbanisation on contemporary art practice in China
LOOK/17: AN ERA WITHOUT MEMORIES:
DATE & TIME
12 May 2017 at 14.00–15.30
VENUE
Tate Livepool
FREE with ticket, booking required
Professor Jiang Jiehong, Director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University will be giving at talk at Tate Liverpool as part of the Look Festival 2017. He has curated several major exhibitions in China and the UK including the Guangzhou Triennial: the Unseen (2012), the Asia Triennial Manchester: Harmonious Society (2014) and more recently in 2016, the Shadow Never Lies in Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum and the Distant Unknown: Contemporary Art from Britain at OCAT Shanghai. Jiang is currently establishing a new postgraduate course, MA Contemporary Arts China (September 2017), which aims to foster innovative perspectives and new understandings of Chinese contemporary arts, design and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices, transcultural research and first-hand professional development experiences with more than 15 partnerships of art museums in the UK, China and internationally.
His well-known book, An Era Without Memories: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban Transformation, published by Thames and Hudson in 2015, will be the basis for the talk on the impact of urbanisation on contemporary art practice in China.
This event is programmed in association with LOOK/17 and is part of the week long event LOOK/17: UK/China Cultural Exchange II.
Reserve your free ticket here
DATE & TIME
12 May 2017 at 14.00–15.30
VENUE
Tate Livepool
FREE with ticket | Free, booking required
Professor Jiang Jiehong, Director of Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University will be giving at talk at Tate Liverpool as part of the Look Festival 2017. He curated major exhibitions in China and the UK including the Guangzhou Triennial: the Unseen (2012), the Asia Triennial Manchester: Harmonious Society (2014) and more recently in 2016, the Shadow Never Lies in Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum and the Distant Unknown: Contemporary Art from Britain at OCAT Shanghai. Jiang is currently establishing a new postgraduate course, MA Contemporary Arts China (September 2017), which aims to foster innovative perspectives and new understandings of Chinese contemporary arts, design and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices, transcultural research and first-hand professional development experiences with more than 15 partnerships of art museums in the UK, China and internationally.
His well-known book, An Era Without Memories: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban Transformation, published by Thames and Hudson in 2015, will be the basis for the talk on the impact of urbanisation on contemporary art practice in China.
This event is programmed in association with LOOK/17 and is part of the week long event LOOK/17: UK/China Cultural Exchange II.
Reserve your free ticket here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/talk/look17-ukchina-cultural-exchange-ii/era-without-memories
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