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SUMMARY:Painting into Being
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by School of Chinese and the Department of Art History\, HKU\nPainting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution\nDate: 2 November 2026 (Mon)\nTime: 5pm-6:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower HKU\nRegistration: required\, via School of Chinese website \nAbstract: Painting into Being is the first in-depth study of underground art during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It focuses on the Wuming (No Name 無名) Painting Group\, active from 1972 to 1981\, in conjunction with other clandestine cultural movements. Aihe Wang brings a singular perspective to this history as both a former Wuming artist and a Harvard-trained historian and anthropologist. In this book\, she examines how underground artists cultivated individual agency and forged collective solidarity in challenging times\, while creating a distinct form of Chinese modernism. Interweaving art\, history\, theory\, and lived experience\, Painting into Being expands our understanding of modern Chinese history\, global modernism\, and the power of creative expression. \nSpeaker: Aihe Wang is a former member of the Wuming (No Name) group\, and her paintings have been collected by M+ and Tate Modern. She served as an Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong 2001-2015 and is currently an Honorary Associate Professor. For this book project she was selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2013. Her other books include Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (2000\, Chinese translation 2011) and the 13-volume Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue (2009).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/painting-into-being/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261104T163000
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SUMMARY:Ports of Profit: European Trading Hubs in Asia\, c. 1500-1800
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by Department of History\, HKU\nPorts of Profit: European Trading Hubs in Asia\, c. 1500-1800\nDate: 4 November 2026 (Wed)\nTime: 16:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration: required\, via the Department of History website \nAbstract: Well before the rise of 20th-century Special Economic Zones and world financial centres\, the ports of maritime Asia were areas of global trade and nodes of capitalism. Today ‘factories’ are places of industrial production\, but they owe their name to these pre-modern Asian trading ports\, European-controlled commercial hubs headed by company servants called ‘factors’.\nAround 200 of them were founded by European powers in Asia for trade. These ports were places where commodities for intercontinental trade were assembled\, stored\, and shipped.\nThis paper investigates their genesis\, evolution\, activities\, and connections\, and asks what kinds of economic activities were carried out in these Asian trading centres and what the interactive roles of European and local merchants were. \nSpeaker: Giorgio Riello is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute\, Florence\, Italy and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick\, UK (currently on secondment). He has published widely on the material exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period.\nAmong his books Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013)\, Luxury: A Rich History (2016)\, and the forthcoming In Times of Wealth (2027). Giorgio coordinates a European Research Council Advanced grant Project entitled ‘CAPASIA: The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism\, 1500-1800’ considering the system of trade in the Indian Ocean (2022-27).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ports-of-profit-european-trading-hubs-in-asia-c-1500-1800/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261119T183000
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Trevor Paglen
DESCRIPTION:This event is supported by the Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nConversation with Trevor Paglen\nDate: 19 November 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU (Directions)\nDoors open at 6:15pm\, free seating \nRegistration: required\, click here \nSpeaker: Trevor PAGLEN\nTrevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making\, sculpture\, investigative journalism\, writing\, engineering\, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art\, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada\, Milan; the Barbican Centre\, London; Vienna Secession\, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul\, and participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Tate Modern\, and numerous other venues. Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT\, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour\, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima\, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography\, artificial intelligence\, state secrecy\, military symbology\, photography\, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Wall Street Journal\, Wired\, the Financial Times\, Art Forum\, and Aperture. In 2014\, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016\, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. In March 2026\, Paglen was named the winner of the LG Guggenheim Award. Paglen’s sixth book\, “How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI“\, was released by Verso Books in the same year. Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley\, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago\, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. \nModerator: Adrian Christopher Notz\nAdrian Christopher Notz is an independent curator and lecturer based in Zurich. He studied time-based media and Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen and Theory of Art and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2024\, he co-curated the AAA Experiments in Kunsthalle Zurich and in 2023 the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara. He is currently lecturer at ETH Zurich\, where he led the AI+Art Program at the ETH AI Center from 2021 to 2024. From 2020 to 2022\, Notz served as curator at the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich. Previously\, he was the artistic director of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (2012–2019)\, following roles as co-director (2006–2012) and curatorial assistant (2004–2006). From 2010 to 2015\, he also headed the Department of Fine Arts at the School of Design in St. Gallen. Throughout his career\, Notz has organized and curated numerous exhibitions\, events\, conferences\, and interventions\, collaborating with international artists\, scientists\, activists\, and thinkers both at Cabaret Voltaire and globally.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversation-with-trevor-paglen/
LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Conversation
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