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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210629T180000
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SUMMARY:Introducing the exhibition 'So long\, thanks again for the fish'
DESCRIPTION:Five Artists in Conversation: Introducing the exhibition ‘So long\, thanks again for the fish’\nDate: 29 June 2021 (Tuesday)\nTime: 13:00-14:15 Eastern European Time / 18:00-19:15 Hong Kong Standard Time\nVenue: Zoom Webinar \nPanelists: Yeewan Koon (curator) with artists Luke Ching Chin Wai\, Christopher K. Ho\, Tungpang Lam\, Cédric Maridet and Angela Su. \nThe international exhibition So long\, thanks again for the fish explores the theme of contaminations as imperfect encounters and broken chains of relations in a world on the verge of reboot and showcases the works by five Hong Kong artists at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Suomenlinna\, Helsinki. \nThe duration of the panel discussion is approximately 30 minutes and afterwards there is a livestream Q & A session. \nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_stnAIAuaRYqYylk29x7m-Q \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nFor more information about the exhibition please visit www.hiap.fi/event/so-long or the event facebook page. \n  \nRecording of the event\nClick to watch (posted on 8/7/2021)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/introducing-the-exhibition-so-long-thanks-again-for-the-fish/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210526T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210308T045528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T034025Z
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SUMMARY:The Gendering of the Cultural Revolution
DESCRIPTION:CGED Research Seminar Series 2020-2021:\nThe Gendering of the Cultural Revolution: The Barefoot Doctor in High Socialist Narrative Feature Film\nDate: 26 May 2021 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:30pm\nVenue: Zoom\n \nRegistration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=73282 \nFrom late 1975 to early 1976\, three films featuring barefoot doctors (chijiao yisheng) as protagonists were released: “Chunmiao” [Spring Shoots]\, “Hongyu” [Red Rain\, or The New Doctor]\, and “Yanming hupan” [By the Side of Goose Crying Lake]. In this presentation\, I trace the rise of the barefoot doctor as a discursive figure of the socialist period\, with the trio of barefoot doctor films as testament to their ubiquity in the cultural imaginary of the period. Provoking powerful praise and dissent even within the explicitly revolutionary context of their own times\, the barefoot doctor’s emergence signified the undertaking of an ambitious\, epoch-defining\, but ultimately failed attempt to reposition medical labor within society. Using studio and film bureau production materials\, I argue that filmic depictions of the barefoot doctor used gender as a site of revolutionary articulation\, as the barefoot doctor sought to transform the medical field into a culture of lay expertise and everyday grassroots healers. Through the embrace of the rural female subject\, I find that these discursive attempts at reorganizing labor and society were ultimately produced through the gendering of revolution itself. \nSpeaker: Angie Baecker\nRespondent: Vivian Sheng\n \nAngie Baecker is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the cultural and material history of Maoist China\, the politics of the aesthetic\, and the postsocialist legacy in contemporary China. She received her PhD in 2020 from the department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan\, where she wrote her dissertation on the theorization and representation of social reproduction in works of literature\, film\, and art from the Maoist period. She holds a master’s degree in modern Chinese literature from Tsinghua University. She is a 2020 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant\, and her writing on contemporary art has been published widely in venues including “Artforum”\, “ArtAsiaPacific”\, “frieze”\, “LEAP”\, “The New Statesman”\, and “Vulture”. She previously worked as an art critic and art book editor in Beijing. \nThis seminar is organised by the Faculty of Arts
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-gendering-of-the-cultural-revolution/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210521T070000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210521T080000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210518T030653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T035826Z
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SUMMARY:The Labor of Good Governance
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by The Huntington Library\, Art Museum\, and Botanical Gardens.\n\nThe Labor of Good Governance: Cultivation Real and Imagined in the Imperial Garden of Clear Ripples in 18th-Century China\n\n\nDate: 21 May 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 7-8am (HK time) / 4-5pm (PDT) \nEvent Registration: click here \nRoslyn Lee Hammers\, associate professor of art history at the University of Hong Kong\, discusses depictions of rural life produced for an 18th-century Chinese emperor’s residence. The Qianlong emperor (1711–1799) had stone stele carved with scenes of men and women producing rice and silk\, and he situated them in a reconstruction of a village in his Garden of Clear Ripples (Qing Yi Yuan\, now known as the Summer Palace\, Beijing). Hammers explores the appeal of such an unusual arrangement that enabled the emperor to observe both actual productive farmers and the representation of their labor in an imperial setting that united real agrarian work with ideated imagery of it.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-labor-of-good-governance/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210520T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210510T025627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T092644Z
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SUMMARY:From China to France
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nFrom China to France: The Production and Reception of Chinese Paper-making Images in the 18th century\nDate: 20 May 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nVenue: online (click here for the zoom link); Room CPD 2.45 (with a capacity of 20\, first come first served)\nMeeting ID: 965 0195 3034 (password: 469077)\nSpeaker: Summer Xiaomin Wen\, Ph.D. candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nPaper traditionally is regarded as one of the “Four Treasures of the Study (Wen fang si bao 文房四寶)” and is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of China. Visual representations of paper production flourished in the 18th century Qing (1644-1912) empire. During this time\, a series of independently produced albums dedicated to the production of bamboo paper were initiated and were sent from China to France and other European locations. My research focus on two paper-making albums in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France\, presently entitled as the Fabrication du Papier (The Fabrication of Paper) and the Art de faire le papier à la Chine (The Art of Making Paper in the Chinese Manner). The former was given to the library by the Sinologist Stanislas Julien (1797-1873) in 1840\, the latter was acquired through an auction of the late French book-dealer and King’s secretary Louis-François Delatour’s (1727-1807) collection. The primary interest of my research is to reconstruct the formation and reception of these paper-making albums to address issues such as the cross-cultural exchanges of technology\, commodities\, visual and material cultures between the Qing empire and France in the eighteenth century. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/from-china-to-france/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210421T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210421T180000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
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SUMMARY:Who is Yoshitomo Nara?
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by The University of Hong Kong Museum Society.\n\nOnline Lecture: “Who is Yoshitomo Nara?” with Dr. Yeewan Koon\n\n\nDate: 21 April 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5-6pm\nVenue: Zoom \nTo register\, please click here \nRenowned for the big-headed girls\, Yoshitomo Nara is one of Japan’s most iconic artists of our time. Inspired by music\, literature\, childhood memories\, Nara explores the themes of isolation\, rebellion\, and spirituality through painting\, sculpture\, ceramic and installation. \nThe HKU Museum Society is pleased to invite Dr. Yeewan Koon\, author of the newly published monograph Nara Yoshitomo (Phaidon\, 2020) to share her research on Nara and her experience of working with the artist.  This talk will be moderated by Catherine Kwai\, Founder and Managing Director of Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery. \nLecture Synopsis \nYoshitomo Nara is an international artist but whose fame sometimes eclipse our understanding of his art. This talk provides an introduction to his practice\, the events that have shaped them\, and the new directions being taken in his artworks. This lecture is also a lesson in looking. We will spend time examining and discussing his works by looking closely at how he paints and to use our discoveries to enrich our understanding of who is Yoshitomo Nara. \nSpeaker \nDr. Yeewan Koon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. She has published numerous works including Nara Yoshitomo (2020)\, “A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art” (2018) and A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in 19th Century Guangdong (2014). She is the recipient of several research awards including a Fulbright Senior Fellowship\, American Council of Learned Scholars\, and visiting scholarships at Cambridge University and Columbia University. Dr. Koon also works in the contemporary art field as a critic and curator. In 2014\, she was guest curator of It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing at the Asia Society\, Hong Kong Center\, and was one of the selected curators for the 12th Gwangju Biennale\, 2018. She is currently working on an international exhibition of Hong Kong art for 2021. \nModerator \nMs Catherine Kwai is the Founder and Managing Director of Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery. She established Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery in 1991\, motivated by a passion for art and her wish to bridge the cultural exchange between China and the West. Kwai Fung Hin reflects the strength and knowledge for the 20th century art in China and Europe. In the past 30 years\, Kwai Fung Hin has organized over 100 exhibitions at the gallery and has collaborated and curated exhibitions with renowned museums and institutes. Kwai Fung Hin has collaborated with international publishing house Rizzoli to publish artists’ monograph. In 2011\, Ms Catherine Kwai was made “Knight of the National Order of the Merit” for her contribution to the arts.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/online-lecture-who-is-yoshitomo-nara-with-dr-yeewan-koon/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210415T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210408T083811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T085423Z
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SUMMARY:Pheasants and the Jiangnan Literati
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nPheasants and the Jiangnan Literati: Pheasant Paintings of Wang Yuan (act. c.1300 – 1360)\nDate: 15 April 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nVenue: online (click here for the zoom link)\nMeeting ID: 975 8542 7572 (password: 020106)\nSpeaker: Leung Ge Yau Candy\, Ph.D. candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nBirds have a long history of serving as motifs to represent auspicious meaning in visual representations in Chinese culture. Colourful paintings with phoenixes\, cranes and a variety of birds expressing good wishes of longevity and fortune adorn the walls of tombs and palaces of the imperial and aristocratic families of the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties. At times\, different species of birds are presented in background settings with specific seasonal flowers to make up rebuses carrying ideas of prosperity in paintings. In this seminar\, through the examination of the motif of the pheasant in textual and visual representations\, I seek to explore the meanings of pheasants beyond readings of rebuses and representations of auspiciousness. I closely examine three pheasant paintings of the Yuan painter Wang Yuan 王淵 (act. c. 1300 – 1360) to propose that the artist depicted the bird paintings in a specific way to appeal to regional elite patrons. He deployed contrasting brushwork to create images of a paradise for recluses that draws upon features of Jiangnan gardens and land. In this talk\, I discuss how some educated elites in Yuan-era Jiangnan sought to showcase their knowledge and cultural accomplishments\, establishing in part their literati identity through the appreciation and possession of pheasant paintings. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/pheasants-and-the-jiangnan-literati/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210307T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210307T163000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210308T063157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T035021Z
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SUMMARY:Marginalisation and Empowerment
DESCRIPTION:CGED Research Seminar Series 2020-2021:\nMarginalisation and Empowerment: Voices of Hong Kong Women\nPanel 2: Visual Storytelling: Photography as Empowerment\n\nDate: 7 March 2021 (Sunday) \nTime: 2:30-4:30pm\nVenue: Zoom \nThis seminar is co-organised by the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity (CGED)\, Faculty of Arts\, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)\, and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) as a concurrent event of the photo exhibition “The Way We Are” at G/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\, from 6-23 March 2021. \nIn 1989\, American scholar and civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to capture how various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other\, arguing that neither sexism nor racism alone could account for experiences of oppression among African American women. \nThirty years on\, the concept remains a useful and relevant lens to understand the marginalisation of women in different cultural contexts. Focusing on carers\, non-Chinese youth\, migrant workers and new arrivals from mainland China\, this seminar examines how gender\, ethnic identity and socio-economic status continue to intersect and inform the challenges facing underrepresented women in Hong Kong today\, and their implications for public policy. It also explores the history and potential of art – photography in particular – as a medium of empowerment and catharsis. \nModerator: Roslyn L. Hammers \nThis seminar is co-organised by the Faculty of Arts and Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/marginalisation-and-empowerment-voices-of-hong-kong-women/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210120T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210120T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210114T040016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T020235Z
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SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | No longer just a girl with a knife: Art after Fukushima
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | No longer just a girl with a knife: Art after Fukushima\n\n\n\n\nDate: 20 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yoshitomo-nara-no-longer-just-a-girl-with-a-knife-art-after-fukushima/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210113T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210113T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210111T104514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T020220Z
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SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | Nara\, kawaii\, and the "Superflat" concept
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | Nara\, kawaii\, and the “Superflat” concept\n\n\n\n\nDate: 13 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-conversation-yoshitomo-nara-nara-kawaii-and-the-superflat-concept/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210106T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20210104T073415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T020201Z
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SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | Who is that big-headed girl?
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | Who is that big-headed girl?\n\n\n\n\nDate: 6 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade. \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yoshitomo-nara-who-is-that-big-headed-girl/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201214T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201214T110000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20201217T063954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T063954Z
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SUMMARY:The Laboring of Art
DESCRIPTION:Art History Seminar:\nThe Laboring of Art: The Rise of Socialist Amateur Art Practice and the Arrival of the Contemporary in the People’s Republic of China\nDate: 14 December 2020 (Monday) \nTime: 10:00am\nVenue: Zoom\n \nRegistration required. \nThis talk takes up the question of amateur art practice during the socialist period (late 1940s to late 1970s) in China\, and its attempt to convert the rarified practice of processional\, academy-trained artists into an everyday praxis. Known variously as yeyu meishu chuangzuo\, qunzhong meishu huodong\, gongnongbing meishu\, and nongmin hua\, amateur art practice originated from small art study groups held at industrial and agricultural labor sites\, where rural farmers and industrial workers met to create images depicting their labor and lifestyles. I argue that socialist amateur art practice not only changed the class and labor relations that had previously defined the fine arts\, but also converted the expert and professional cultures of the fine arts into a grassroots practice of the everyday. By creating new publics for art appreciation\, and by centering art production outside the academy\, amateur art practice challenged the dominance of the art academy as a legitimizing site of training\, and evacuated concepts of artistic genius and technical accomplishment. I end the talk by connecting the amateur art activity of the socialist period with the experimental art practices of the Reform period\, asking how the mantle of avant-garde practices was passed from the revolutionary guard to its political and cultural dissidents. \nSpeaker: Angie Baecker  \nAngie Baecker is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the cultural and material history of Maoist China\, the politics of aesthetic\, and the postsocialist legacy in contemporary China. She received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Michigan\, and holds a master’s degree in modern Chinese literature from Tsinghua University.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-laboring-of-art/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201210T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20201202T024127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T061634Z
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SUMMARY:Watermoon Avalokiteshvara Paintings and their Viewers and Producers in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nWatermoon Avalokiteshvara Paintings and their Viewers and Producers in East Asia\nDate: 10 December 2020 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:30-6:30pm \nVenue: 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nOnline attendance via Zoom is possible (click here for the zoom link)\nMeeting ID: 979 3264 4258 (no password required) \nAbstract\nEver since its earliest inception in the metropolitan capitals of Luoyang and Chang’an of Tang China (618-907 CE)\, Watermoon Avalokiteshvara as a subject matter of depiction had spread to different polities of East Asia in the following centuries. Polities such as Wuyue (907-978 CE) and Song (960-1279 CE) in China continued to produce Watermoon Avalokiteshvara images\, making stylistic and iconographic innovations that reflect the different preferences of the day. This image was also spread to Japan and Korea. By the 14th century\, both Kamakura Japan (1192-1333 CE) and the Koryo Kingdom (918-1392 CE) in Korea had become important centres for consuming and producing images of Watermoon Avalokiteshvara. \nIn this presentation\, I first argue how one should view Watermoon Avalokiteshvara paintings in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-979 CE) and Song periods alongside contemporaneous art historical development. Most relevant to this discussion is landscape painting’s development as genre. I then revisit the Koryo examples and argue for a multi-identities perspective of viewing them both as representative of Koryo national style and within the context of the larger Yuan imperium (1271-1368 CE). This transnational perspective can also garner better understandings of what I termed Sino-Japanese examples found in 14th century Kamakura Japan. This presentation concludes with a close reading of two enigmatic examples of Watermoon Avalokiteshvara in the Nara National Museum and the Rijksmuseum collections in Japan and the Netherlands. I shall argue how these works are results of transnational exchanges. \nSpeaker\nMr. Konstance Chuntung Li is a final year doctoral student at the Department of Art History\, University of Hong Kong. He holds a M.St. in Archaeology from the University of Oxford. His current research has received generous support from the Japan Foundation and is a comprehensive study that examines Watermoon Avalokiteshvara paintings in East Asia from the 9th to the 14th centuries. At present\, Mr. Li is also a member of the National Gallery Singapore’s Language Panel.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/watermoon-avalokiteshvara-paintings-and-their-viewers-and-producers-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201125T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201125T183000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20201028T071954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T025444Z
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SUMMARY:“On the Museum's Ruins” An introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)
DESCRIPTION:Art History Lecture Series:\n“On the Museum’s Ruins”\nAn introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)\nDate: 4\, 11\, 25 November 2020 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-6:30pm \nVenue: CPD-2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nRegistration required. Please email maah@hku.hk. \nOn the occasion of this year’s translation to Chinese of Douglas Crimp’s seminal book On The Museum’s Ruins (1993)\, the Department of Art History offers an introductory course the discursive field of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019)\, the art historian\, critic\, curator and AIDS activist\, who generated some of the most enduring\, foundational texts on postmodern art\, queer theory\, and institutional critique. \nGuest Lecturer Professor: Inti Guerrero (Hong Kong) \nInti Guerrero is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator at Tate Modern (since 2016). He has curated exhibitions and symposia in institutions globally\, and has published in journals including Afterall (Central Saint Martins). In Hong Kong\, he has curated and co-curated exhibitions at Para Site and Asia Art Archive. \n  \nSeminar Readings \nDAY 1: 4 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[Chinese] Crimp\, Douglas. “On the Museum’s Ruins.” In On the Museum’s Ruins\, trans. Y. Tang\, 33-50. Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing Ltd\, 2020.\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “On the Museum’s Ruins.” In On the Museum’s Ruins\, 44-60. Cambridge: MIT Press\, 1993. \nDAY 2: 11 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “Pictures.” October 8 (Spring 1979): 75-88. \nDAY 3: 25 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “The Boys in my Bedroom.” In Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics\, 151-163. Cambridge: MIT Press\, 2002.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/on-the-museums-ruins-an-introduction-to-douglas-crimp-1944-2019/
LOCATION:CPD-2.16\, CPD 2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201117T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201117T193000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20201111T180023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T094726Z
UID:7106-1605637800-1605641400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:HKUFAAA: Knowing Botticelli
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association (HKUFAAA).\n\nKnowing Botticelli\n\n\nDate: 17 November 2020 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Online (Zoom) \nSpeaker: Dr. Sim Hinman WAN\nMedium: English \nCost: Free\nRegistration: required\, before 17 November noon (register now)\nZoom Meeting ID: 964 4575 6433\n(URL and password will be sent in an email confirmation) \nWelcoming all alumni and friends\, this online talk aims to complement the current exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Botticelli and His Times– Masterworks from the Uffizi” (open until 24 Feb 2021) at Hong Kong Museum of Art. It will provide a historical context for audience to further understand and appreciate those masterpieces on display. It will also cover some other paintings by this extraordinary Florentine artist and comparisons will be drawn among them. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/knowing-botticelli/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201028T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201028T153000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20201017T055840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T060534Z
UID:6789-1603895400-1603899000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Applying to Graduate School
DESCRIPTION:Art History Workshop:\nApplying to Graduate School\nDate: 28 October 2020\nTime: 2:30-3:30pm (Hong Kong time)\nZoom Meeting ID: 951 89537541 (URL) \nPassword: Refer to department email (for majors and minors\, no prior registration required) \nEach fall\, the department holds a workshop to provide information and advice about applying to graduate schools in art history. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA. We’ll discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We’ll also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/applying-to-graduate-school-2020/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200909T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200909T193000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20200825T081852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T084051Z
UID:6647-1599676200-1599679800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:An Unexpected Masterpiece
DESCRIPTION:Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture\nAn Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll\nDate:  9 September 2020 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30-7:30pm\nRegistration: Click here to join the Free Facebook Live Webinar \nThis lecture introduces one of the most unusual iconic works in Chinese art history. It is a painting that by all counts should not be a “masterpiece.” It is a painting of ghosts (rather than a landscape)\, it is a handscroll of smaller paintings in uneven sizes mounted together (therefore somewhat ad hoc)\, and it was made by an artist seeking patrons after years of being under his charismatic teacher’s shadow. It also collected over 160 admiring colophons. So why did this painting garner such attention? Why is Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll important? This lecture given by HKU’s Dr. Yeewan Koon in conversation with Orientations Magazine publisher Yifawn Lee looks at how Chinese paintings are mediators of intimate relationships\, whether between painters and their audiences or between masters and disciples\, and why the strange world of ghosts captured the imagination of an eighteenth-century Chinese art world. \nArt and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture is a series of public lectures organized by the Art History Department\, The University of Hong Kong and presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art\, and the University of Hong Kong Museum Society. The programs aim to deliver current art-historical thinking in an accessible manner presented by specialists in the field. The series is part of the Art History Department’s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  \nDr. Yeewan Koon is Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. Her primary research is on Chinese painting and she is currently completing a study on the “self-knowing” copy in the sixteenth century. Koon’s academic interest also expands into contemporary art in Asia with a recent monograph of Yoshitomo Nara\, and curatorial work at the Gwangju Biennale (2018) and a forthcoming exhibition on Hong Kong art in Helsinki (2021). She is the recipient of numerous awards including from the American Council of Learned Scholar\, and as Fulbright Senior Fellow. \nYifawn Lee is the publisher and editor of Orientations\, a scholarly magazine for collectors and connoisseurs of East and Southeast Asia\, the Himalayas and South Asia founded in 1969. After finishing her studies\, she worked in finance and later joined Orientations in 2008. In 2014\, she founded Asian Art Hong Kong as a platform to provide art-related lectures and events. In 2018\, she helped organize ‘The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia’ at Liang Yi Museum and ‘From Two Arises Three: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney’ at The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong. She currently sits on the advisory board of Liang Yi Museum and on the executive committee of the Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art. \nCo-presented by: \n                  
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/an-unexpected-masterpiece/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Lecture Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200817T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200817T120000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20200805T044832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200824T110139Z
UID:6558-1597662000-1597665600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Internship Talk 2020-2021
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk 2020-2021\nThis zoom meeting will give an introduction to FINE 4005 Art History Internship and provide more information about available internship positions in our host institutions—Asia Art Archive\, Asia Society Hong Kong\, Hong Kong Maritime Museum and University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG)—for the academic year 2020-2021. People from some of these institutions will also attend the meeting to have conversations about their internship programmes. \nDate: 17 August 2020 11:00 AM (Hong Kong time) \nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nSpeakers:\nDr. Vivian Sheng\nInternship Coordinator\, Art History\, HKU \nDr Libby Lai-Pik Chan\nAssistant Director (Curatorial and Collections)\, Hong Kong Maritime Museum \nSamantha Kwok\nLearning & Participation Coordinator\, Asia Art Archive \nRecordings of the event are available here:\n\nvideo recording (until 24 August 2020)\npowerpoint\n\n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-talk-2020-2021/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200710T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200710T233000
DTSTAMP:20260523T144408
CREATED:20200701T055014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200824T110212Z
UID:5998-1594377000-1594423800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:International Internship 2021
DESCRIPTION:International Internship SUMMER 2021\, Japan\nIf you are interested in taking part in the Department’s first-ever international internship programme at Hong Kong House\, Echigo-Triennale Japan\, please join me for an introductory session via Zoom on 9 July\, 2020\, 11:00am Hong Kong SAR time. Register now! \nHeld every three-years\, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of the largest international outdoor art festivals. The Arts Promotion Office (HK LCSD) hosts the Hong Kong house\, a site dedicated to the promotion of Hong Kong artists. The year 2021 marks the beginning of the next cycle of the 8th Triennale\, and for the first time\, we will be collaborating with Arts Promotion Office (HK) to launch a 3-year internship dedicated to HKU students. \nAs part of this internship\, students will be working with local community and artists for short-term creative projects that reflect their experiences of being part of an international arts biennale held in Echigo-Tsumari. As part of this programme\, students who are successful will be given free accommodation and costs towards daily living. Applicants can also apply to the department for travel costs. \nIf you want to hear more about this programme\, what is involved and how to put in an application for this credit-bearing internship\, please make sure you turn up to the Zoom meeting. This is an unusual opportunity and as it will be competitive\, the department will be taking note of all attendees. \nPlease note that this zoom meeting will be recorded. \nIf you have missed the event\, or you would like to remind yourself about the details\, you may watch the zoom recording here via this link (available until 24 August 2020). \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/international-internship-2021/
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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