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SUMMARY:Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nLee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation\nLee Mingwei’s (b.1964\, Taiwan) artistic practice incorporates aspects of installation\, performance\, and participation. Inspired by multiple sources\, his works follow no set medium or material and are often repeated in different locations. Through his iterative projects he builds connectedness and helps us see art as a space for transformation and change. This talk will cover key works in Lee’s career\, giving special attention to the large-scale sand painting installation Guernica in Sand currently on view at M+. \nDate: 24th March 2025 (Monday)\nTime: 1-2:30pm\nVenue: Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit) (click here for directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE – Registration is now closed\, but we welcome walk-in participants\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Pauline J. Yao \nPauline J. Yao is an independent curator and writer based in Hong Kong. From 2017 to 2024 she was Lead Curator\, Visual Art\, at M+. Since joining the M+ curatorial team in 2012\, Yao played an integral role in building the museum’s collection and acquiring works of art from East Asia\, Southeast Asia and internationally. She curated the first display of the visual art collection exhibition Individuals\, Networks\, Expressions and organized Antony Gormley: Asian Field\, both in 2021. Other M+ exhibitions include In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections (with Shirley Surya\, 2018) and Five Artists: Sites Encountered (2019)\, both presented at the M+ Pavilion. Yao is a regular contributor to Artforum International and her writings on contemporary Asian art have appeared in numerous catalogues\, online publications\, and edited volumes.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/lee-mingwei-and-the-art-of-transformation/
LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, Rayson Huang Theatre\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250323T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250323T153000
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SUMMARY:The Art World 2025
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nThe Art World 2025: Blurred lines and new realities\nHow social media\, geopolitics\, creative industries and generational shifts are rapidly reshaping the art world’s markets and modus operandi. \nDate: 23rd March 2025 (Sunday)\nTime: 2pm-3:30pm\nVenue: Grand Hall\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click here for directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE– Registration is now closed\, but we welcome walk-in participants\nFree seating\, with doors open at 1:30pm \nSpeaker: Marc Spiegler (Cultural Strategist) \nSpiegler was the Global Director of Art Basel from 2012 to 2022\, and helped bring Art Basel to Hong Kong in 2011. He now works independently with cultural organizations such as the LUMA Foundation and for companies such as Prada Group\, KEF and Sanlorenzo. In the immersive space\, he is President of Board of Superblue and chairman of the UBS Digital Art Museum’s advisory board. Spiegler has been a Visiting Professor in cultural management at Milan’s Universita Bocconi for a decade and recently cofounded the Art Market Minds Academy\, a virtual education startup.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-art-world-2025-blurred-lines-and-new-realities/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Grand Hall\, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241030T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241030T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20241009T034210Z
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SUMMARY:Where Does A Painting End?
DESCRIPTION:Research Seminar Series 2024/25\nWhere Does A Painting End?\nDate: 30 October 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:00-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD 2.58\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (free seating)\nDirections: from MTR (click here); from car park (click here)\nSpeaker: Prof. Yeewan Koon \nAbstract\nThis presentation is of an ongoing project examining the conceit of a copy and pictorial wit in the Ming dynasty\, a time when a sophisticated art market for forgeries and originals was forming. By interrogating traditional paradigms of understanding copies\, this paper considers how artists employed emulative strategies to reflect on how paintings – as artifact and as image – inhabit their own social and cultural worlds. It asks what is the implication of a “double-looking” that demands acknowledging the presence of original artworks (and not of a former artist) within the replicant? Challenging the biases of historical lineages in our current art canon\, the speaker proposes that copies were instrumental in the making of visual knowledge and\, more importantly\, reveal what happens when copies escape time. \nSpeaker\nProf. Yeewan Koon is the Chair of the Department of Art History and Associate Dean (Global) at The University of Hong Kong. Her primary research focuses on Ming and Qing art history\, with projects that re-evaluate established canonical narratives for diverse perspectives and alternative methodologies. Additionally\, she is active in contemporary art\, contributing to publications and curatorial projects at institutions such as Asia Society and Gwangju Biennale. Her current research project is a thematic study of Chinese export paintings.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/where-does-a-painting-end/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Lecture Series,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240929T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20240920T043512Z
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SUMMARY:Small Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by Para Site. \nSmall Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering\nDate: 29th September 2024 (Sunday)\nTime: 1pm-6pm\nVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit)\nRegistration: Required. Click here\nEvent details: Click here  \nLanguage: English to Cantonese simultaneous interpretation will be available through the day\, with Putonghua/Cantonese to English available for round table 1.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/small-acts-new-flows-a-public-gathering/
LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, Rayson Huang Theatre\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240625T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240628T113000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
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SUMMARY:Art History & Curatorship Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The University of Melbourne X The University of Hong Kong \nArt History & Curatorship Seminars 2024\nDate: 25-28 June 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)\nTime: 9:30-11:30am\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU*\nRegistration: Required. Email art.history@hku.hk and indicate the session(s) you plan to attend and your year group. First come\, first served.  \n\nHong Kong art instutitions: a personal perspective (25 June)\n\nSpeaker: David Clarke (Honorary Professor (modern and contemporary art history)\, Department of Art History\, HKU)\n\n\nHong Kong arts development and funding (26 June)\n\nSpeaker: Johnson Chang Tsong-zung (Independent curator; Director\, Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong))\n\n\nResearching\, curating and practicing art in Hong Kong now (27 June)\n\nSpeaker: Michelle Wun Ting Wong (Independent curator; PhD candidate (Art History)\, HKU; Co-foundaer\, New Park)\nSpeaker: Eunice Tsang (Founder and Curator\, Current Plans; Associate Curator\, M+ Moving Image)\n\n\nArt publishing: ArtAsiaPacific (28 June)\n\nSpeaker: Elaine W. Ng (Editor\, ArtAsiaPacific; Assistant Professor\, Academy of Visual Arts\, Hong Kong Baptist University)\n\n\n\n*All sessions will begin with the guest speaker’s presentation in CPD-2.58. Registered students are welcome to join the subsequent discussion in CPD-LG.61. \nJoin us to explore aspects of the art eco-system in Hong Kong.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-curatorship-seminars-2024/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240520T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240520T183000
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SUMMARY:Rock\, Paper\, Scissors
DESCRIPTION:Rock\, Paper\, Scissors: Durable Ephemera and Networks of Stone in Quanzhou’s Zhenguo Pagoda\nDate: 20 May 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 5pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Jennifer Purtle\, University of Toronto \nAbstract\nTo build a pagoda is to mobilize durable materials into architectonic form\, timber and stone\, allowing it to stand and indeed rise stories above ground level\, perhaps for several centuries. But pagodas can also be crafted using images and objects wrought in ephemeral materials: fragile printed texts and paintings on silk\, indestructible objects fashioned from valuable metals ultimately recycled\, and evanescent forms no longer produced. Once these ephemera disappear\, they exist only as embodied in the fabric of the pagoda. The pagoda thus becomes a nexus of textual\, pictorial\, and formal transfer\, a site at which imperishable media preserve others easily destroyed through artistic and intermedial processes\, to create abiding texts and images able to outlive their models. \nThis talk examines how\, in the Zhenguo pagoda 鎮國塔 (lit. “Stabilizing the State Pagoda”) at the Kaiyuan temple 開元寺 in Quanzhou 泉州\, Fujian 福建\, rock—covered with the imagery of paper (and silk\, and other fugitive media) by means of scissors (or\, more precisely\, the carver’s knife)—preserved traces of evanescent forms\, sustained their lost networks\, and served as a lexicon for decoding the forgotten iconographies of other monuments. This talk articulates the relationship of paper-based editions of the Buddhist canon\, especially printed ones\, to the stone-carved narrative program and demonstrates how single reliefs combine content from multiple sutras; it also asserts that artisans employed the logographic schema of printed-paper primers as well as pictorial styles drawn from court painting on silk\, known locally\, to maximize the intelligibility of the reliefs. Furthermore\, this essay contends that\, by representing small\, free-standing bronze (and stone) pagodas—their corpus\, like those of their paper- and silk-based counterparts\, now largely lost—the reliefs establish links to overlapping local (Quanzhou)\, regional (Min-Yue/Fujian)\, imperial\, and maritime (Indian Ocean) object networks. Finally\, by using the durable images of the Zhenguo pagoda as indices of long-lost monuments\, this essay recovers the identity of an unusual local type of monument\, thereby validating the hypothesis that this pagoda serves as a repository of\, and lexicon for\, now-lost ephemera. \nSpeaker\nProfessor Jennifer Purtle (Chinese name: 裴珍妮) teaches at the University of Toronto. She researches the artistic landscape of China\, especially that of Fujian province\, engaging questions of local and regional production of painting in relation to Chinese empires. These aspects are central to her forthcoming monograph\, The Problem of Place: Artistic Geography and Cultural Transactions in Min [Fujian] Painting\, 909–1646. She is also interested in the circulation of art objects in the medieval world system\, especially in the Great Mongol Empire and is currently working on a book-length project that traces the intersection of local and global art history in Fujian during the Song and Yuan dynasties. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/rock-paper-scissors/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240410T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
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SUMMARY:David Diao: To Paint a De-Aestheticized Picture
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nDavid Diao: To Paint a De-Aestheticized Picture\nDate: 10 April 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nVenue: CPD 2.45\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Alex Jen\, MPhil candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nDavid Diao\, perhaps by his own creation\, has long been an artist difficult to classify. Emerging in the storied New York art world of the 1960s\, which gave rise to such movements as Pop\, Minimalism and Conceptualism among others\, Diao took a studiously uncommitted position and developed a citational painting that continues to this day. His lasting concern has been the history of abstraction as he was\, or failed to be\, a part of it; in turn\, by banalizing the life and practice of the artist in his paintings — detailing legendary exhibitions\, sales records and stereotypes — Diao has laid bare the myths and structures that organize art history and the art world itself. This presentation provides an overview of my research with a focus on Diao’s early career from 1966 to 1973\, wherein he actively (and humorously) refused conventions of persona and process in the pursuit of a “de-aestheticized” painting. \nSpeaker\nAlex Jen is an MPhil candidate in Art History at The University of Hong Kong. His criticism on art\, architecture and poetry has appeared in Frieze\, The Financial Times\, Gulf Coast and other venues\, and he has curated projects at galleries and artist-run spaces in Chicago and Taipei. A graduate of Williams College\, Jen was previously the Special Assistant to the President and Director at The Art Institute of Chicago. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/david-diao-to-paint-a-de-aestheticized-picture/
LOCATION:CPD-2.45\, CPD-2.45\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240205T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
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SUMMARY:To be Hong Kong and Modern: Ha Bik Chuen’s Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nTo be Hong Kong and Modern: Ha Bik Chuen’s Sculptures \nDate: 5 February 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nVenue: CPD G.02\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Michelle Wong\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis presentation examines a selection of sculptures by the late Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925-2009) and argues that artistic modernism in Hong Kong was a self-aware response to the diverse current of ideas and information on art circulating in the city. Ha’s sculptures encompassed self-conscious references to artistic modernism from Europe and America\, inherited elements of Chinese aesthetics\, and his lived experiences in Hong Kong. These lived experiences included urban life\, the changing values of labour within a developing consumer economy\, and the cosmopolitan aspiration that accompanied Hong Kong’s rapid modernization. For Ha\, sculpture was also a creative and social domain where he established himself as a modern artist in Hong Kong by producing works with a highly individualized visual language. This study thus takes into consideration the social and cultural aspects of the mid-twentieth century Hong Kong art world\, and how they\, alongside the city’s rapid modernization\, found ways into Ha’s sculptures as material\, imagery\, and process. \nSpeaker\nMichelle Wun Ting Wong is a PhD candidate in Art History at The University of Hong Kong\, exploring the modernity emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. Her writing has been published in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art\, 1945–1990 (2018) and the journal Southeast of Now (2019). She was previously Researcher at Asia Art Archive\, focusing on Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Curatorial projects include Portals\, Stories\, and Other Journeys at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021)\, Afterglow\, Yokohama Triennale 2020\, and 11th Edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/to-be-hong-kong-and-modern-ha-bik-chuens-sculptures/
LOCATION:CPD-G.02\, CPD-G.02\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240124T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nara Yoshitomo with Dr. Yeewan Koon
DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by The University of Hong Kong Museum Society\nIn Conversation: Nara Yoshitomo with Dr. Yeewan Koon\nDate: 24th January 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-8pm\nVenue: Grand Hall\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click here for directions)\nLanguage: Conversation in English and Japanese with translation in English \nRegistration: CLICK HERE  full\nFree seating \nSign-in begins at 5:45pm and doors open from 6pm\nBy 6:45pm\, we start offering no-show seats to stand-by guests\nBy 7pm\, all doors are closed
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/in-conversation-nara-yoshitomo-with-dr-yeewan-koon/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Grand Hall\, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240105T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240105T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20231218T043225Z
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SUMMARY:Does Picasso Still Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nDoes Picasso Still Matter?\nDate: 5th January 2024 (Friday)\nTime: 5-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Pepe Karmel (Professor\, New York University)\nRegistration: RSVP at https://bit.ly/hkupicassotalk \nAbstract\nIn his new book\, Looking at Picasso\, Pepe Karmel approaches the artist’s work through the lens of art rather than biography\, showing how he invented multiple new visual languages and transformed the traditional themes of Western art. In this special lecture for the University of Hong Kong\, Prof. Karmel will give an overview of his book and will also address the question of whether Picasso’s work still matters today\, when contemporary art seems to have evolved so far beyond historic styles like Cubism and Neo-Classicism. Is Picasso’s work a relic of expired revolutions\, or does it still speak to art today? \nSpeaker\nPepe Karmel is a Professor in the Department of Art History\, New York University. He has written widely on modern and contemporary art and is the author of Looking at Picasso\, published in autumn 2023\, Abstract Art: A Global History (2020) and Picasso and the Invention of Cubism (2003). \nThis event is made possible through the generous support of The University of Hong Kong Museum Society.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/does-picasso-still-matter/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231206T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231206T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20231116T024228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T024228Z
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SUMMARY:Aphrodite in Miniature and the Embodied Figurine
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nAphrodite in Miniature and the Embodied Figurine \n\n\nDate: 6 December 2023 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:00-5:30pm \nVenue: CPD 3.16\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Ryan Ho\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis project introduces a selection of miniature Graeco-Roman figurines of Aphrodite/Venus\, from the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods and combines both formal and contextual approaches to studying these objects with more recent theories of embodiment in classical art history. As “embodied objects” of handling\, these figurines intimately engage with and invite a direct process of sensory engagement with the viewer/handler in their use. They encourage and respond to fantasies of sculpted objects transformed into living\, conscious subjects capable of possessing an animated agency in relation to those who use them. By examining these cult figurines in their original contexts and in these “embodied” terms\, this project aims to reconsider and interrogate ancient and modern engagements with this material genre and explore the ways in which their appeal to tactility serves as evidence for the importance of haptic modes of image-making and viewing in Graeco-Roman visual culture.  \nSpeaker\nRyan Ho is a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. He has a background in Art History and Visual Arts\, receiving his MA from The University of Hong Kong and BA from The University of Chicago\, respectively. As an independent researcher\, digital developer\, and multidisciplinary creative\, Ryan has executed projects for a wide range of academic and cultural institutions\, startups\, and global brands alike.  
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/aphrodite-in-miniature-and-the-embodied-figurine/
LOCATION:Classroom 316\, Room 3.16\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231116T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T183000
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SUMMARY:The Empire of Paper
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nThe Empire of Paper: Pictures of Chinese Papermaking Made in Late Imperial China and Their Social Lives in Early Modern World\n\n\nDate: 16 November 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:00-6:20pm \nVenue: CPD 1.44  Room 10.28\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Summer Xiaomin Wen\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nMy research investigates a series of Chinese papermaking album produced in Qing China and traveled to France throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. These albums entail a consecutive program of step-by-step scenes\, each of which dedicates to a specific procedure of producing bamboo paper. Despite their shared thematic focus on bamboo papermaking\, many identical technical procedures demonstrated in the scenes\, these albums take on distinct artistic languages. The variety of these albums nicely exemplify the visual diversity of pictures of papermaking produced in later imperial China while each of the albums captures its dynamic relationship with respective historical context. The intersection of art\, culture\, and technology embodied in these papermaking picture albums offers a fascinating lens through which to examine the history of technology\, labour production in both Qing China and France\, and Sino-European interaction in the early modern world.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-empire-of-paper/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230921T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230921T150000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
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SUMMARY:Innovations in studying the past with technology
DESCRIPTION:Talk from the School of Humanities on Technological Innovations in Archaeology\nDate: 21 September 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 2-3pm\, 6-7pm (both sessions are the same\, so you only need to attend one)\nVenue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One\, LED Wall and Brainstorming Area (LG/F)\nSpeakers: Dr. Peter Cobb and RPG students\, School of Humanities\, Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nRegistration: Required. (CLICK HERE)\n \nTechnology is increasingly important in studying humanities topics such as archaeology. HKU helps lead a collaborative fieldwork project in Armenia every summer where we are excavating a fortress from 3\,000 years ago. This field project is a laboratory for experimenting with various technologies including 3D modeling\, databases\, augmented reality\, virtual reality\, machine learning and many other technologies. \nIn this talk\, we will introduce some of our past engineering experiments and our ongoing projects. All participants can join us in developing new technological solutions that can facilitate our fieldwork in the future. Participating students may also get a chance to join us in Armenia next summer! \nThese talks are open to all!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/innovations-in-studying-the-past-with-technology/
LOCATION:Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One\, LED Wall and Brainstorming Area (LG/F)\, Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing\, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230916T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230916T153000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20230913T041108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022410Z
UID:11366-1694872800-1694878200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Desperately Seeking Lauren
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-organised by M+ and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.\n\nDesperately Seeking Lauren: Yeewan Koon in Conversation with Angela Su\n\n\nDate: 16 September 2023 (Saturday)\nTime: 2-3:30pm\nVenue: The Forum\, M+\nRegistration: Required. (CLICK HERE)\nSpeakers: Dr. Yeewan Koon and Ms. Angela Su \nIn response to her 2022 Venice Biennale presentation\, Angela Su produced an installation of more than 400 items on loan from the archives of Lauren O at the Esalen Institute in California. However\, very little is known about this enigmatic figure who was arguably involved in a 1967 plan to levitate the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War. Who is Lauren O? How is this obscure levitator from 1960s America relevant to the world that we live in today? \nSu\, together with Dr Yeewan Koon\, who has conducted extensive research on Lauren O\, will take a deep dive into the counterculture of the 1960s in the US. Their conversation will cover the confluence of social movements\, psychedelics\, supernatural and popularisation of technology that gave rise to a fascinating era of change and infinite possibilities. Through Lauren O’s cosmological views and her vision of the future\, one could also make sense of Su’s own practice\, in particular\, her fascination with worldbuilding.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/desperately-seeking-lauren/
LOCATION:The Forum\, The Forum\, M+
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230504T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20230425T040429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T040429Z
UID:10856-1683216000-1683221400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Between Toil and Toile
DESCRIPTION:Between Toil and Toile: Socialist Ornament in Printed Cotton Design from the Cultural Revolution\nDate: 4 May 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 4-5:30pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Dr. Angie C. Baecker \nAbstract\nThis paper takes up the question of socialist ornament\, looking specifically at the design of printed cotton textiles produced from the late 1950s into the early 1980s in the People’s Republic of China. Through close examination of a collection of printed cotton quilt covers in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum and the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, the authors seek to understand how industrial designers interpreted new state policies and industrial development projects as decorative motifs on printed fabric. If\, as Oleg Grabar argues\, the defining function of the ornament is to improve upon the object it adorns\, how do the patterns and design programs of Maoist era printed cottons participate in the construction of the cloth’s visual interest and material value? Through close examination of the cotton boll as a design motif\, the authors argue that the ornamentation of consumer goods such as printed cotton implies an economy of labor\, cost\, and use value that is itself signaled by the presence of the ornament. By putting the decorative function of these textiles into conversation with their material and historical context\, we seek to bring an art historical theorization of the sensory appeal of the ornament into conversation with a growing body of scholarship examining the materiality of everyday culture in the P.R.C. The resulting pastiche of decorative motifs and political iconography combined to create a highly inventive sort of high socialist toile\, testifying to the experimental and distinctive nature of applied art and industrial design in Maoist China.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/between-toil-and-toile/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230504-angie-talk-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230328T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20230301T013238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T014715Z
UID:10771-1680022800-1680026400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Unhappy History Painters: Academic Artists and the Impossible Genre
DESCRIPTION:Unhappy History Painters: Academic Artists and the Impossible Genre\nDate: 28 March 2023 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5-5:45pm\nVenue: CPD-LG.34\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Mark Ledbury (Power Professor of Art History and Visual Culture | Director of the Power Institute\, Power Institute for Art & Visual Culture\, The University of Sydney) \nAbstract\nWhy did History painting make painters miserable? We know that the theory and the system of old regime painting privileged History painters and made it part of the aspiration of generations of young artists. But many of these artists\, some of enormous talent and application\, lived constantly in fear and misery\, failed to produce paintings on time\, or otherwise just dropped out of the race. As part of my (rather overdue) study of History painting as lived experience for ancien-regime artists\, critics and publics\, this paper will explore the multiple anxieties that afflicted artists as they tried with varying success to come to terms with the genre of history painting and the pressures it exerted.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/unhappy-history-painters-academic-artists-and-the-impossible-genre/
LOCATION:LG 34\, LG.34\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230112T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20221230T024228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T024807Z
UID:10604-1673548200-1673553600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Archaeology HK: the Development of Hong Kong through the Dynastic Periods
DESCRIPTION:This online talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association\n\nArchaeology HK: the Development of Hong Kong through the Dynastic Periods\n\n\nDate: 12 January 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 6:30-8:00pm (HK time)\nVenue: CPD2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (directions) \nSpeaker: Mr. Chau Hing Wah\, Curator (Special Duty) Archaeology\, Hong Kong Museum of History\nMedium: Cantonese \nEvent Registration: required\, click here
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/archaeology-hk-the-development-of-hong-kong-through-the-dynastic-periods/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20230112-Archaeology-HK-poster-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221219T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20221122T035330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T023815Z
UID:10548-1671472800-1671478200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Tracing Water: Contemporary Art and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture\nTracing Water: Contemporary Art and Climate Change\nDate: 19 December 2022 (Monday)\nTime: 6-7:30pm\nVenue: Asia Art Archive (11/F Hollywood Centre\, 233 Hollywood Road\, Sheung Wan) ONLINE\nZOOM meeting URL: CLICK HERE\nMeeting ID: 999 8229 1929 | Password: 974576\nSpeaker: Prof. Joshua Shannon (Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory\, The University of Maryland\, USA) \nAbstract\nBeginning by observing that climate change demands not only technical and political solutions but a remaking of some of our most basic beliefs\, this talk turns to recent climate art for the ways in which it can guide and ignite this process. Looking at examples in forms ranging from science-fiction film to contemporary-art installations\, the talk considers the difficulty\, given its geographic and temporal dispersal\, of visually representing climate. \nSpeaker\nJoshua Shannon is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Maryland\, USA. His research and teaching investigate modern and contemporary art in relationship to social and cultural history\, with special interests in architecture\, cities\, landscape\, and ecology. His publications include The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City (Yale University Press\, 2009)\, The Recording Machine: Art and Fact During the Cold War (Yale University Press\, 2017) and\, co-edited with Jason Weems and Laura Bieger\, Humans (Terra/Chicago\, 2021). \nThis event is made possible through the generous support of The University of Hong Kong Museum Society.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/public-lecture-tracing-water-contemporary-art-and-climate-change/
LOCATION:Asia Art Archive\, 11/F Hollywood Centre\, 233 Hollywood Road\, Sheung Wan\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221214T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20221122T033612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T022436Z
UID:10543-1671031800-1671210000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Masterclass in Modern/ Contemporary Art with Prof. Joshua Shannon
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nMasterclass in Modern/ Contemporary Art with Prof. Joshua Shannon\nDate: 12\, 14\, 16 December 2022 (Monday\, Wednesday\, Friday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus (Direction to CPD-2.42 from MTR HKU station) ONLINE \n\nThe Modernist Landscape (12 Dec 2022)\nAbstract Expressionism: Action and the Sublime After World War II (14 Dec 2022)\nPhotography and the Human Being Since 1980 (16 Dec 2022) ONLINE \n\nZOOM meeting URL: CLICK HERE\nMeeting ID: 994 5014 4903 | Password: 853749\n \nSpeaker: Prof. Joshua Shannon (Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory\, The University of Maryland\, USA) \nJoshua Shannon is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Maryland\, USA. His research and teaching investigate modern and contemporary art in relationship to social and cultural history\, with special interests in architecture\, cities\, landscape\, and ecology. His publications include The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City (Yale University Press\, 2009)\, The Recording Machine: Art and Fact During the Cold War (Yale University Press\, 2017) and\, co-edited with Jason Weems and Laura Bieger\, Humans (Terra/Chicago\, 2021). \n* These classes are opened to students\, alumni and friends of HKU Department of Art History.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/masterclass-in-modern-contemporary-art-with-prof-joshua-shannon/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Lecture Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20221122T094141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022515Z
UID:10573-1669478400-1669482000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Yin Xiuzhen: Materiality & Spirituality in Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Pace Gallery\n\nYin Xiuzhen: Materiality & Spirituality in Everywhere\n\n\nDate: 26 November 2022 (Saturday)\nTime: 4pm (HK time)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yin-xiuzhen-materiality-spirituality-in-everywhere/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221027T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221027T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20221014T025447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T031032Z
UID:10472-1666890000-1666895400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:An Ecology of Art Space in the East Asian City
DESCRIPTION:Society of Fellows in the Humanities Lecture Series 2022–2023\nAn Ecology of Art Space in the East Asian City\nDate: 27 October 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 5pm\nRegistration Link: https://bit.ly/22SoFTRenwick \nThis talk will explore the relationship between art and architecture in the East Asian City from an academic and practitioner’s perspective. Each speaker will unpack what an art ecology means to their work. In addition to examining how these ecologies have transformed over time and are defined by place\, we will discuss how they are informed by global and regional movements in art\, architecture\, and cities shaping. \nSpeakers: Ms. Elizabeth Briel\, Dr. Ying Zhou \nElizabeth Briel’s prints\, paintings\, and installations begin with materials imbued with meaning—papers devastated by a typhoon or made of military uniforms\, paints of bone and lead—and frequently incorporate architectural elements. She received a BFA in Painting from the University of Minnesota\, and has been awarded fellowships or residencies from China Exploration and Research Society (Shangri-la)\, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang)\, and Grabart (Barcelona). \nYing Zhou’s expertise is at the intersection of architecture\, urbanism\, and visual art. Her current research investigates the arts ecologies manifested by Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, and Singapore’s art spaces. She also researches on and writes about heritage conservation\, architectural reuse\, gentrification\, and creative cities. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. \nModerator: Dr. Trude Renwick \nTrude Renwick is a Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She specializes in the Architectural and Urban History of Thailand and Southeast Asia and is currently completing her monograph on the relationship between commercial and spiritual space in Bangkok.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/an-ecology-of-art-space-in-the-east-asian-city/
LOCATION:Room CBC\, Room CBC\, LG1/F\, Chow Yei Ching Building\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20220930T014324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T014715Z
UID:10417-1666195200-1666200600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Representation of Filial Piety...
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nThe Representation of Filial Piety in the Yuan-Dynasty Handscroll Four Stories of Filial Piety\n\n\nDate: 19 October 2022 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4-5:30pm (HKT)\nFormat: Hybrid\nVenue: Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (room capacity: 40\, first come first served)\nRegister for online participation: click here \nAbstract\nXiao 孝 (filial piety)\, as the one of the core concepts of Confucianism\, has held profound significance in Chinese society throughout history and may have informed nearly every aspect of society. However\, the idea of filial piety is not static\, instead\, it is ever-changing and dynamic. Many Chinese artworks engage with this subject\, and the Yuan-dynasty 元 (1271-1368) handscroll painting Si Xiao Tu 四孝圖 (Four Stories of Filial Piety) is one of them. Presently collected in the Taipei National Palace Museum\, the pictures of the handscroll render four stories of filial piety. In its current arrangement\, it begins with the narrative of the wife of Wang Wuzi 王武⼦ of the Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907)\, and then Lu Ji 陸績 of the Three Kingdoms period 三國 (220-280)\, Wang Xiang 王祥 of the Jin dynasty 晉 (266-420) \, and\, at the end\, Cao E 曹娥 of the Eastern Han dynasty 東漢 (25-220). Examining this handscroll may assist us in construing the development of the concept of filial piety and its pictorial traditions\, especially under Mongol governance in the Yuan era. Seeking to explore the meaning of the representation of pain and the significance of the subject of filial piety\, I will reconstruct the formation and function of this handscroll at the time when it was produced. \nSpeaker\nLiu Meichen Annie is currently a MPhil candidate\, studying at the Department of Art History and specializing in Song to Yuan figure painting. She obtained both of her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the University of Hong Kong\, majoring in Art History.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-representation-of-filial-piety-in-the-yuan-dynasty-handscroll-four-stories-of-filial-piety/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 758\, Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220914T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20220906T013156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T094431Z
UID:10129-1663171200-1663174800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:"Red and Expert"
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\n“Red and Expert”: Photographers at the Ming Tombs Reservoir Construction Project\n\n\nDate: 14 September 2022 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4-5:30pm (HKT)\nFormat: Hybrid\nVenue: Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (room capacity: 40\, first come first served)\nRegister for online participation: click here \nAbstract\nThis seminar presents a major case study from ongoing research into the aesthetics of early Mao era propaganda photography. The presentation will include an examination of representational strategies used by two photographers at the 1958 Ming Tombs Reservoir construction project to capture the social and political significance of the event in their construction landscapes. The photographs will be assessed according to three criteria used at the time in major periodicals about photography practice: conceptuality\, artistic quality\, and truthfulness. These terms help to describe how Maoist politics was put into practice for propaganda\, as well as variations in the relative importance of different subject matter. By considering the written discourse around the photographs\, I seek to contextualise how people were expected to engage with propaganda photography and\, in turn\, how photographers were expected to engage with the masses. \nSpeaker\nChristie Wong is an MPhil candidate. She obtained her BA and MA in Western art history at University College London\, where she developed her interest in exploring challenges to the nature of representation in the twentieth century\, including conceptual art\, performance art\, and photography. Her previous work includes a study of humour as a critical technique in Allan Sekula’s early photo-essays.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/red-and-expert/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 758\, Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220816T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220816T193000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20220725T091651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T021518Z
UID:10015-1660674600-1660678200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Myriad Shades of Jade
DESCRIPTION:This online talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association\n\nMyriad Shades of Jade: the Problem and Beauty of Celadon\n\n\nDate: 16 August 2022 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:30-7:30pm (HK time)  \nFormat: Zoom Webinar\nMedium: Cantonese\, with some specific terms in English \nEvent Registration: required\, click here \nCeladon itself is a popular term that refers to ceramics covered in green glazes. The term has been associated with a large number of wares in China and such inclusiveness is convenient and yet at times problematic. Dr Ruby Leung (Lecturer\, Department of Art History\, HKU) will address celadon’s technical and stylistic distinctiveness to articulate it artistic importance. By examining and tracing the development of various objects associated with this term\, this talk surveys the fascinating beauty that celadon embraces\, and also explores how inappropriate the term can be in certain cases.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/myriad-shades-of-jade/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220524T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20220505T012705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T031648Z
UID:9765-1653420600-1653426000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Not Just An “Exotic Other”
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nNot Just An “Exotic Other”: China in The Illustrated London News\, 1842-1873\nDate: 24 May 2022 (Tuesday)\nTime: 7:30-9:00pm\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92184176367?pwd=ZmdDZ0pibkZ0c0U3TmFqb3JPMWtRZz09\nZoom Meeting ID: 921 8417 6367 | Password: 954699\nSpeaker: Zhu Wenqi\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nIn the early nineteenth century\, the rise of newspapers and magazines established a transnational network of circulation for data\, information\, and ideas within the Western world. Illustrated periodicals—such as The Illustrated London News (Britain\, 1842)\, L’Illustration (France\, 1843)\, and Illustrirte Zeitung (Germany\, 1843)—fostered a mass visual culture that impacted the ways in which people from the far-flung corners of empires were depicted and imagined. This seminar will examine China-related coverage published in the most popular Victorian news magazine\, The Illustrated London News\, from 1842 to 1873\, by focusing on war\, travel\, diplomatic encounters\, and cultural exchanges. Marked by the First and Second Opium War (1839-42; 1856-1860)\, this period was a crucial phase for Anglo-Chinese relations when British perceptions of China were dramatically transforming in various domains. Western soldiers\, journalists\, artists\, and photographers travelled across the country to new treaty ports as well as previously closed areas. They produced legions of images and texts that encompassed a wide range of information\, from dramatic battle scenes to ethnographic portraits of indigenous types. With the rapid development of transport and new communication technologies\, the ILN was able to deliver these frontline reports to a burgeoning middle-class readership at home on a weekly basis. In my presentation\, I will demonstrate that though inevitably succumbing to a colonial ideology which demonized China as a country of oriental despotism\, the ILN created a multi-vocal channel where the nuances and particulars of China\, its land\, culture\, and people\, were mediated through different narratives and parallel discourses. \nSpeaker\nZhu Wenqi is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. G. M. Thomas in the Department of Art History. Her project collects and categorizes images of China\, Japan\, South Korea\, and Greater East Asia in the European pictorial press during the Long Nineteenth Century. She completed her MPhil thesis\, titled “Negotiating Art and Commerce in William Alexander’s Illustrated Books on China\,” in 2021 and received several grants during her study\, including the Hong Kong Museum Society’s travel grant (2020)\, the Pilot Scheme for International Experience (2019)\, and the Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants (2018).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/not-just-an-exotic-other/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Seminar-poster-01.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220430T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220430T113000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
CREATED:20220427T081159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T082010Z
UID:9745-1651314600-1651318200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:HKUFAAA: Dr Baecker on M+ Sigg Collection
DESCRIPTION:This online talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association.\n\nDr Baecker on M+ Sigg Collection\n\n\nDate: 30 April 2022 (Saturday)\nTime: 10:30am-11:30am (HK time)\nVenue: Online\nRegistration: required\, free\, via HKUFAAA website \nTo help individuals form their own views when they encounter contemporary Chinese art\, HKUFAAA has invited art historian Dr Angie Chang Baecker to be our guest speaker for the event\, who will take a closer look at the exhibition “From Revolution to Globalization” and the significance of the Sigg collection at M+ museum. She will situate the show in the converging spatial complexes for contemporary art represented by the museum\, and discuss how the exhibition’s reception has highlighted some of the contradictions inherent to the display of the Sigg collection. \nSpeaker: Angie Baecker (Lecturer\, Department of Art History\, HKU)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/online-talk-dr-baecker-on-m-sigg-collection/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Academic Talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220407T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220407T170000
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Border
DESCRIPTION:Mapping the Border: Women Artists’ Reconceptions of Space\, Gender and Representation\nDate: 7 April 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 4pm\nWebinar Link: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HFi-EiCmRIaM453Rst0lmw \nOver the past fifty years\, citizens of the divided capital Nicosia\, Cyprus\, have experienced the instability of their hometown\, the dead end of the streets and the enduring militarism and nationalism of the Buffer Zone. This paper will examine the work of contemporary women artists who explore in their practice the theme of an enclosed city and its environment. Women artists’ reconceptions of place can offer new understandings of seeing and experiencing divided cities. According to Meskimmon\, women artists can become a ‘sentient participant in the city’ and they develop in their artist practices negotiations on gender\, space and representation.[1] \nThe ‘flâneur’ concept has been historically associated with a male figure that had the privilege to stroll leisurely around the cities. For women artists in Cyprus\, strolling along the borders of their divided homeland can be seen as a politicised action\, as they enter a domain that has been predominantly controlled by masculinised politics. This paper will focus on the work of women artists who have used the walking body and its movement to re-enact the boundaries that confine the city. In entering the space of the enclosed city and strolling along its borders\, women artists have used sensory strategies to reclaim it. The site-specific interventions offer new perspectives into understanding past histories and create new narratives of belonging. \n[1] Meskimmon\, M. (1997) Engendering the City: Women Artists and Urban Space\, London: Scarlet Press \nSpeaker: Dr. Maria Photiou \nMaria Photiou is an art historian and a Research Fellow at the University of Derby\, UK. She holds a doctorate in Art History from Loughborough University. Her current research focuses on women’s art practices and the connections between migration\, gender\, memory and the politics of belonging. Previously she worked as a Research Associate at Loughborough University\, developing an AHRC funded project entitled ‘Visual Narratives of Homeland’. She is co-editor of the anthology Art\, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration (Bloomsbury\, 2021).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/mapping-the-border/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220331T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260521T141115
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SUMMARY:Queer Chinese Feminist Archipelago: Shanghai\, Miami\, and San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Queer Chinese Feminist Archipelago: Shanghai\, Miami\, and San Francisco\nDate: 31 March 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 7:30pm\nWebinar Link: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-0hC3rd-RXKtVCXctyqPbQ \nMartinican-born poet and theoretician Édouard Glissant suggests that a shift to “archipelagic thinking” can allow one to see the world metaphorically as a collection of islands connected to each other. Foregrounding the body and affect\, I will consider the exhibition WOMEN 我們\, organized by Abby Chen\, that traveled from Shanghai (2011) to San Francisco (2012) and Miami (2013) through what I refer to as “archipelagic feeling.” WOMEN 我們 explored queer Chinese feminism\, and in a nod to cities where the venues were located\, the curators expanded the checklist at each leg of the tour. In this way\, the curators aimed not to essentialize or center queer Chinese feminism but productively connect it to (for example) Latinx subjectivities and Asian-American feminist concerns. In so doing\, I suggest this exhibition offers a new framework for thinking about the transnational through both queerness and creolization. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel \nAlpesh Kantilal Patel is an associate professor of contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture\, Temple University. His art historical scholarship\, curating\, and criticism reflect his queer\, anti-racist\, and transnational approach to contemporary art. He is the author of the monograph Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories (2017). A co-editor of the anthology Storytellers of Art’s Histories (2022) and special journal issue for Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2021)\, he is working on two book projects\, Visual Diaries: Transnational Miami and Multiple and One: Global Queer Art Histories.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/queer-chinese-feminist-archipelago-shanghai-miami-and-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220310T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220310T013000
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SUMMARY:Fiona Tan: Inhabiting the World as a 'Professional Foreigner'
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art and the School of Art History.\nFiona Tan: Inhabiting the World as a ‘Professional Foreigner’\n\nDate: 10 March 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 12:00-1:30am\nVenue: Online \nTo register\, please click here \nThis talk discusses a set of lens-based installation works by Indonesian-born Australian-raised Dutch artist Fiona Tan\, which not only foster generative dialogues with the artist’s experiences of transnational migration and cross-cultural engagement\, but also probe into the unprecedentedly movable and uprooting status of human life in a globalising world. \nTan considers herself a ‘professional foreigner’ devoid of an unambiguous origin\, which enables her to investigate multiple places and cultures via situated observations and actual experiences unburdened by prior knowledge of local norms and conventions. With her works\, Tan brings to the fore a way of perceiving and apprehending people’s identities and histories built not upon preconceived sociocultural and geopolitical narratives\, but rather on embodied encounters and identifications with their quotidian activities ‘at home’. \nThe talk examines in what ways Tan’s works implicate viewers in dynamic and affective material environments of migratory inhabitation that requires continuous reworking and reconfiguration of the relations between private and public\, self and other\, past and present\, and local and foreign\, as well as virtual and real; how Tan’s artistic practice of ‘homemaking’ articulates an ethical position of being a professional foreigner permanently ‘in exile’\, disrupting any consistent and coherent conception of provenance in terms of when and where people or things originally come from; and in what ways Tan\, in her works\, renders identity and home relational and transformative\, constituted and reconstituted through relations of power and mutuality\, providing a distinctive insight into the complex entanglement of personal memories\, social histories and cultural belonging. \nSpeaker \nDr. Vivian Sheng is Assistant Professor of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. She is a feminist art historian working on contemporary transnational art and visual culture. Her research investigates the intricate interrelation between women\, domesticity and artistic practice in association with growing international travel and cross-cultural exchange\, which significantly challenge any stable and absolute conception of home and place. Her current book project\, Art\, Women and Fantasies of ‘Homemaking’: Affective Domesticity\, Embodied Habitation and Transcultural (Dis)identification\, examines the practices of six women artists—Yin Xiuzhen\, Fiona Tan\, Mona Hatoum\, Shen Yuan\, Nikki S. Lee and On-Megumi Akiyoshi—from vastly different geopolitical backgrounds and working conditions\, exploring the role of art in mediating issues of gender\, place\, identity and belonging. This research responds to the urgent need to reconsider women’s contributions to the constitution and representation of sociocultural and geopolitical realities within the international art world beyond Euro-American centres. It introduces new content and theoretical paradigms to the ongoing construction of a feminist history of art\, challenging normative discourses of social advancement\, global capitalism and international migration\, which often push women aside. \nImage Credit: Fiona Tan\, Vox Populi\, London\, 2012. The Photographers Gallery\, London
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/fiona-tan-inhabiting-the-world-as-a-professional-foreigner/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220303T180000
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SUMMARY:New Technology\, Old Memories
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nNew Technology\, Old Memories: The “Ghosts” in Kubota Shigeko’s Video Art\nDate: 3 March 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99410373665?pwd=QU1KSUNFcGo4VVJCdVBHUDJNSTVUUT09\nZoom Meeting ID: 994 1037 3665 | Password: 675270\nSpeaker: Karen Yuan Cen\, MPhil candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis seminar focuses on the New York-based Japanese artist Kubota Shigeko (1937-2015) and her pioneering video art. Originally trained as a sculptor\, Kubota took up newly developed video technology in the 1970s and was among the first of her generation to exploit its creative potential as an art medium. As a woman artist burdened by male dominance in the Japanese art world\, she found opportunities in new technology that had not yet developed a gendered art historical discourse. In the following five decades\, Kubota used video to explore innovative means to exert her presence in the male-dominated art scene. This seminar looks at how Kubota used new technology to engage with the past. She used this to articulate her position in the history of contemporary art. In her own words\, she describes video as a “ghost” and asks\, “Can we communicate with the dead through video?” In many of her works\, she makes visible the traces of the deceased and those from her old memories. Through a close reading of selected works\, I examine the diverse approaches she developed with video and how she used them to channel dialogue with the past. I highlight how her exploration might have contributed to the rise of video art at a time when video’s legitimacy as an art medium was still debatable. In addition\, her work will also serve as a point of entry into a broader discussion of the intersecting histories of gender\, art\, and technology in Japan since the 1960s\, which I will explore in future studies.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/new-technology-old-memories/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Academic Talk,Seminar
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