Dear all,

I am delighted to announce that the third instalment of our extended Covid-19 seminar series will take place this Saturday at 10am UK time 5pm China Time. Our invited speaker is Wang Shouzhi, design theorist. Please see below for his biography and further information about our seminar series.
Best wishes,
Lauren. 




王受之，中国现代设计教育的奠基人，从1980年代以来一直从教学、教材撰写、学术研究，教学体制改革、大型活动的策划和组织，研究生培养、国际交流活动。担任多年的美国“艺术中心设计学院”教授、汕头大学长江艺术与设计学院院长，参与数百个重要项目的策划与设计，有超过千万字的著作，是具有国际和国内学术影响力的设计家。2019年9月起任上海科技大学创意与艺术学院副院长。

Wang Shouzhi is a pioneer of modern Chinese design education. Since the 1980s he has engaged in teaching, writing of textbooks, academic research, teaching reform, planning and organisation of large-scale events, supervision of doctoral students and international exchange activities. He has been a Professor for many years at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, USA and Dean of the Cheung Kong School of Art and Design at Shantou University in China. He has participated in the planning and design of hundreds of important projects, writing over more than 10 million words of text. He is a designer with both international and domestic academic influence. Since September 2019, he has served as the Deputy Dean of the School of Creativity and Art at Shanghai Tech University.

THE WORLD, TWO METERS AWAY: EXTENDED CCVA COVID-19 SEMINAR SERIES

Our planned series of 7 seminars finished in late July. Due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19, the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts at Birmingham City University will release 5 new seminars involving Art and Literary Criticism, Design, Architecture and Music to further enhance the research context.

At the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020, when the coronavirus first emerged, Wuhan in China became the first city in the world affected by this deadly disease. It then rapidly spread to the entire country, and further on to Europe, America and the rest of the world. Restrictions on travel, instructions of keeping social distance, and finally the lockdown of districts, towns and cities were enforced to help slow down its transmission. During these current strange times, we witness the emptiness of streets, squares and cities everywhere; we experience a spatialised daily life through social distancing measures; we suffer but benefit from the distance and because of it, we estrange from and yet ‘connect’ with each other.

This seminar series provides an immediate and unique platform to develop discussions with leading scholars and professionals during the Covid-19 lockdown period and to obtain first-hand materials of participants’ perceptions and reflections on the pandemic. It aims to explore, collate and critically assess the everyday experiences from cultural, political and artistic perspectives, and to foster new understandings of this present-day crisis, including, for example, threat of the invisible, the notions of distance and spatialisation, separation and isolation, communication and mobility, discipline and surveillance, and community and collectiveness, as well as the increase of the conflicts and divisive voices between China and the world. At the same time, it will also give us opportunities to re-examine our past ‘normality’, and to project our future – visions for the post-Covid world.

The BiliBili stream will be on Saturdays 10am UK time and 5pm Chinese time every Saturday from the 15th August.  The talks will be in Mandarin Chinese only. 

You can access the meetings via the following link: http://live.bilibili.com/22288382 

Please see the below for our schedule and list of guest speakers: 

15th August 10am UK/5pm China
Shu Kewen
Art Critic and Writer

22nd August 10am UK/5pm China
Jiang Jun
Researcher in Architecture, Urban Scholar and Document Editor

29th August 10am UK/5pm China
Wang Shouzhi
Theorist and Expert in Design and Design History, Deputy Dean of the School of Creativity and Art, Shanghai Tech University

5th September 10am UK/5pm China
Chen Danqing
Painter, Art Critic and Writer

12th September 10am UK/5pm China
Zhu Zheqin
Musician, Sound Artist

Chaired by Professor Jiang Jiehong
Head of Research, Birmingham School of Art
Founding Director of Centre for Chinese Visual Arts at Birmingham City University

Partner institution：Academy of International Visual Arts, Shanghai

两米外的世界｜CCVA新冠疫期特别研讨系列更新预告

自2020年6月启动的“两米外的世界：CCVA新冠疫期特别研讨系列”到7月下旬已经展开了七期，每周一次。但全球范围内的新冠危机仍未结束，许多国家与地区仍深受疫情困扰。与此同时，这场全球性的公共卫生危机也触发了诸多结构性问题，我们看到了在疫情背景下爆发的关于虚假信息、民主、种族乃至全球化的分歧与冲突。

鉴于此次系列研讨的主题背景仍在不断地变化发展，“两米外的世界”系列新近又邀请了五位分别来自文学、文艺评论、设计、建筑、音乐各学科领域的专家，进一步对我们眼下的日常，以及它的过去和未来，作出反思。

“两米外的世界”第八期将从2020年8月15日（星期六）开始，五位新嘉宾将分别加入每周一次的系列线上研讨。录制的视频影像也将在编辑后配以字幕呈现于广大互联网观众。

2019年的岁末年初，新型冠状病毒来袭，武汉成为了世界上第一个承受了这种疫病之灾的城市。病毒很快也影响了整个中国，又在随后的几个月里，迅速侵袭了欧洲、美国及世界的其他国家和地区。旅行限制、保持社交距离的指令，以及最终对省市的封锁试图强制阻断疾病的传播。而至今，病毒依旧横行于世。我们正面临着一场前所未有的挑战。

鉴于新型冠状病毒在全球范围内所造成的可见与不可见、暂时和长远的影响，此次研究计划携手诸位艺术和文化界的专家学者，为疫期的视觉经验、文化思考以及一手信息资料的收集搭建了一个及时有效的平台。从文化和艺术的角度，适时地挖掘和整理，并批评性地分析疫情为我们带来的日常经验。本项目以对谈的形式，深入探究这个特殊时期所引发的众多相关问题，比如间距与空间化、封闭与隔离、交流与迁移、训诫与监控、社区与集体等概念的多重演绎；与此同时，也让我们可以重新思考我们司空见惯的“日常”，并想像后疫情时代的世界。

时间表及嘉宾名单

2020年8月15日北京时间17点（英国时间10点）
舒可文
文艺评论家，作家

2020年8月22日北京时间17点（英国时间10点）
姜珺
研究型建筑师，城市学家，文献编辑

2020年8月29日北京时间17点（英国时间10点）
王受之
设计理论和设计史专家，上海科技大学创意与艺术学院副院长

2020年9月5日北京时间17点（英国时间10点）
陈丹青
画家，文艺评论家，作家

2020年9月12日北京时间17点（英国时间10点）
朱哲琴
音乐人，声音艺术家 

主持：姜节泓伯明翰城市大学艺术学院教授，中国视觉艺术中心总监

合作伙伴：AIVA国际视觉艺术教育

参与方式
直播共享，B站搜索：CCVA中国视觉艺术中心
访问链接：http://live.bilibili.com/22288382

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