Dear all,
Hope everyone is keeping safe and well. This is just a final reminder that our annual conference will take place virtually next week on the 9-10th November. For those who are interested, we still have 8 places left for guests to attend via zoom. We will also be live streaming via youtube. You can find the conference programme below along with further details for zoom and youtube.
All best wishes,
Lauren.
Centre for Chinese Visual Arts
The 13th Annual Conference
The World, Two Metres Away
Date: 9-10 November 2020
Venue: Online zoom meeting with live streaming on YouTube.
Zoom: Registration is compulsory and limited to 60 places, first come first served. Please email [log in to unmask] with your position and affiliation (postgraduate students, emerging and established scholars all most welcome)
YouTube live-streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFhISVpn3_iQSeJeU7u8c4Q
09 November Monday
08.45-9.00 Registration and Introduction
Panel One
Chinese International Relations and Covid-19
09.00-09.20 Yan Wu/Matt Wall (Swansea University) Maskphobia, Orientalism and a Global Pandemic: anti-Chinese racism during Covid-19
09.20-09.40 Nixi Cura (SOAS, London) China Trade
09.40-10.00 Katie Hill (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London) One Hundred Years of Solitude
10.00-10.20 Laura Leng (Academy of International Visual Arts, Shanghai) The World 10,000 Miles Away: studying art overseas in a post-Covid world
10.20-10.45 Panel discussion (Chair: Jonathan Harris, Birmingham City University)
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Keynote: Xiang Biao (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) Vertical Mediation: why do we become more divided when acting together?
Panel Two
Going Viral: Covid-19 and Virtual Performance
12.00-12.20 Gao Shiyu (University of Edinburgh) Emerging Technological Bodies in the Covid-19 Pandemic
12.20-12.40 Ada Hao (University of Brighton) Shared Absence: the awareness of glitch and the challenge of latency in the art of networked practice.
12.40-13.00 Ying Sun (Birmingham City University) ‘Cloud’ Square Dancing under the Influence of Covid-19 in China
13.00-13.30 Panel discussion (Chair: Jenifer Chao, De Montfort University)
13.30-13.50 Book announcement The Otherness of the Everyday: twelve conversations from the Chinese art world during the pandemic (Intellect Books), forthcoming 2021.
13.50- 14.50 Lunch Break
Panel Three
Covid-19, Surveillance and the State
14.50- 15.10 Cristina Moraru (George Enescu National University of the Arts, Romania) Art, Life and Labour in Post-Covidism
15.10-15.30 Meiqin Wang (California State University) Pandemic, Censorship and Grassroots Visual Mobilisation
15.30-16.00 Panel discussion (Chair: Jiang Jiehong, Birmingham City University)
10 November Tuesday
08.45-09.00 Registration and Introduction
Panel Four
Penning a Pandemic: Lockdown Diaries and Post-Coronial Literature
09.00-09.20 Federico Picerni (Ca’ Foscari University Venice/Heidelberg University) Yours the Slogans, Yours the Praise: (self-) narratives in China during the epidemic
09.20-09.40 Stephanie Chow (Brown University/Peking University) The Artist’s Diary: from private diary to collective memory
09.40-10.00 Yusi Liu (Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum) A Chinese Covid-19 Romance: feeling and living the virus
10.00-10.20 Claire Chambers (University of York) Covid’s Metamorphoses and Post-Coronial Fiction
10.20-10.45 Panel discussion (Chair: David Roberts, Birmingham City University)
10-45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.00 Keynote: Zheng Bo (City University of Hong Kong) The Soft and Weak are Companions of Life
12.00-13.00 Lunch Break
Panel Five
Covid-19 and Art Activisms
13.00- 13.20 Xiaoyi Nie (Royal College of Art) Mourning in Demand of Publicness: farewell to Li Wenliang as an on-site action and its online dissemination
13.20-13.40 Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham) Learn German in My Kitchen: queer diasporic engagement with the pandemic discourse
13.40-14.00 Laia Anguix (Northumbria University) Street Art in Empty Streets: the significance of urban art and culture during a pandemic
14.00-14:20 Whiskey Chow (Royal College of Art) The “Queer Blue Sky”: what can art do during and beyond the global crisis
14.20-14.50 Panel discussion (Chair: Stephanie Donald, University of Lincoln)
14.50-15.00 Closing Remarks and introduction to the special issue, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 8.2&3
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