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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
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20231108T093319Z
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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:20260521T152218
CREATED:20230913T033427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T042433Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230916T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230916T153000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20230913T041108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022410Z
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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:20260521T152218
CREATED:20230425T040429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T040429Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230328T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230112T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20221230T024228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T024807Z
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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
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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:20221219T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20221122T035330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T023815Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221214T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20221122T033612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T022436Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20221122T094141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022515Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221027T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221027T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20221014T025447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T031032Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220930T014324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T014715Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220914T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220906T013156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T094431Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220816T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220816T193000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220524T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
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
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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:20220430T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220430T113000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220427T081159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T082010Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220407T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220217T043716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T013632Z
UID:9611-1649347200-1649350800@arthistory.hku.hk
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220331T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220331T203000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220217T041539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T013204Z
UID:9605-1648755000-1648758600@arthistory.hku.hk
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220310T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220310T013000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220307T030646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022614Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220223T082546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T013037Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20220104T025419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220114T074602Z
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SUMMARY:Tiger Tails
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association and our Department\, and is supported by HKU Museum Society\nTiger Tails: Harnessing the Ferocity of the King of Animals in Early- to Middle-period Chinese Art\nDate: 19 January 2022 (Wednesday) \nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Online via Zoom Webinar / CPD LG.63\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nCONSIDERING THE TIGHTENED SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES ON CAMPUS\, THIS EVENT IS NO LONGER A HYBRID EVENT.  \nPARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO ONLINE-ONLY. (Updated on 14/1/2022) \nAdvanced registration required: Click here *\nPlease join Dr. Roslyn Hammers in a celebratory talk that brings in the felicitous Lunar New Year of the Tiger! Focusing on the representation of the tiger from early days to pre-Ming\, this informal chat will consider the role of the tiger and related feline friends in Chinese painting and other media. The tiger\, initially regarded as a fierce and terrifying foe\, he or she could also be enlisted to serve as a protective guardian with apotropaic properties in art. The tiger appeared as a symbol emblazoned on paintings\, clothing\, doorways\, tomb walls\, and other places\, visually lending his power to those who sought it. This talk will take a lighthearted look at the beauty of the tiger while at the same time consider the reconfigurations of its ferocity\, a quality that is at the core of the tiger’s power and status as the king of the animals. \nSpeaker: Roslyn Hammers\nDr. Roslyn Hammers is an Associate Professor at the Department of Art History\, University of Hong Kong. When she is not working on technological imagery or depictions of people at labor she brings two great passions together\, Chinese art and animals. She teaches on paintings of the Song to Yuan dynasties\, but really wants to get in touch with her inner tiger or canine and break free from the constraints of the human condition. She hopes to use her empathetic response to animals to argue for an exalted position of scaled\, furry\, and feathered beings in this world. The tiger in the year of the tiger is an excellent place to start to work toward this goal. \n*Please note that HKU will introduce enhanced Covid-19 control measures. From 17 January 2022\, anyone wishing to enter the campus will need either to be fully vaccinated or to take weekly self-tests.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/tiger-tails/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211207T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211207T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20211124T062205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211124T085248Z
UID:9391-1638896400-1638901800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Composition\, Repetition
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nComposition\, Repetition: On Materiality\, Ha Bik Chuen’s Prints and Motherboards\nDate: 7 December 2021 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5:00-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD 2.45\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Michelle Wong\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis presentation introduces the ongoing PhD project on the late Hong Kong-based artist Ha Bik Chuen (b.1925\, Guangdong\, d. 2009\, Hong Kong). A self-taught artist who did not receive any academic training in art\, Ha’s prolific creative output includes works across media as prints\, sculptures\, ink and mixed media paintings\, and collage books that were discovered posthumously. The archive he left behind includes 50 years’ worth of exhibition documentation and ephemera\, including photographs of over 2500 exhibitions that he took inside and outside of Hong Kong. This presentation focuses primarily on Ha Bik Chuen’s prints and print matrices which he called motherboards. It analyses the iconography and the production process of both motherboards and prints\, to explore how Ha as a self-trained artist experimented through composition\, materials and repetition.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/composition-repetition-on-materiality-ha-bik-chuens-prints-and-motherboards/
LOCATION:Classroom 245\, Room 2.45\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,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=UTC:20211111T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20211102T092237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T013112Z
UID:9339-1636648200-1636653600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Ren Hang’s ‘Abject’ Photography
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nRen Hang’s ‘Abject’ Photography: ‘Queer’ Bodies on the Boundaries of Urban Life\nDate: 11 November 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nVenue: Room 3.16\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96670843029?pwd=NHRUeE1ydlZtaEdMRDBpZDNFd1BkUT09\nZoom Meeting ID: 966 7084 3029 | Password: 255140\nSpeaker: Mankit Lai\, MPhil candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nUrbanization in China has continued expanding in the 21st century and left imprints upon contemporary photographic practices that feature the transforming cityscapes. Contemporary photography in China\, since the mid-1990s\, has turned an inward gaze on the changing lifestyles\, probing into the affective terrains that take agency from the personal and everyday narratives\, rather than just the motifs of demolition\, ruins and high-rises. Ren Hang (1987-2017) was a photographer practising snapshot photography that often stages his encounters with counter-cultural urban youths\, providing distinctive insights into the notions of affect\, intimacy and interrelation. Most of his photographic works depict youthful\, naked models idling around urban and rural sites. Ren featured those nude models as straddling both spatial and psychological realms\, eliciting inquiries into the intricate interrelations between identities\, bodies and the urban society. This seminar argues that Ren’s nude photography brings to the fore intersecting layers of ‘abject’ aesthetics and ‘queer’ identificatory potential. It examines how his works might challenge and destabilize the disciplinary orders\, systems of urban life in contemporary Chinese society.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ren-hangs-abject-photography/
LOCATION:Classroom 316\, Room 3.16\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T133000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20211102T090844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T075058Z
UID:9334-1636029000-1636032600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Mapping the Contemporary Art World
DESCRIPTION:Mapping the Contemporary Art World\nDate: 4 November 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 12:30-1:20pm\nVenue: Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall (LE1)\, Library Extension Building\, Main Campus\n \nGuest speakers: \nHG Masters (Deputy Editor & Deputy Publisher\, ArtAsiaPacific)\nÖzge Ersoy (Public Programmes Lead\, Asia Art Archive)\nNick Yu (Associate Director\, Blindspot Gallery)\nPaola Sinisterra Tenorio (Textile Specialist\, CHAT)\n \nModerator: Dr. Yeewan Koon
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/mapping-the-contemporary-art-world/
LOCATION:Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall (LE1)\, LE1\, LG1/F\, Library Extension Building\, Main Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Academic Talk,Conversation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
CREATED:20211019T035011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T092057Z
UID:9296-1635442200-1635447600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Ships of the Silk Road: The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade
DESCRIPTION:Ships of the Silk Road: The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade\nDate: 28 October 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nLocation: CRT4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97490624001?pwd=ME5qT3Iyck9VekxCSVRJZ2ZNaERXUT09z\nZoom Meeting ID: 974 9062 4001 | Password: 008348\n \nFor hundreds of years\, the Bactrian camel ploughed a lonely furrow across the vast wilderness of Asia. This bizarre-looking\, temperamental yet hardy creature here came into its own as the core goods vehicle\, resolutely and reliably transporting to China fine things from the West while taking treasures out of the Middle Kingdom in return. It took all manner of goods linking China in the East with Rome in the West via Persia for perhaps 1\,000 years. Where the chariot\, wagon and other wheeled conveyances proved useless amidst the shifting desert dunes\, the surefooted progress of the camel – the archetypal ‘ship of the Silk Road’ – reigned supreme. The Bactrian camel was a subject that appealed particularly to Chinese artists because of its association with the exotic trade to mysterious Western lands. In this talk\, Angus Forsyth tells the full historical background to the key role of the Bactrian camels and explores the numerous diverse jade pieces depicting this iconic beast of burden. \nSpeaker: Mr. Angus Forsyth \nAngus Forsyth is an internationally respected collector of\, and authority on\, Chinese jade and a former president of the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong. He has given long and dedicated study to ancient jades\, with special attention to the Neolithic period\, publishing widely on the topic. His publications include Chinese Jade (1991) and Jades from China (coauthored with Brian McElney\, 1994) and Ships of the Silk Road: The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade (PWP\, 2018)\, which was the basis of his talk to RASBJ March 3 “Jade Camels of the Silk Road”.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ships-of-the-silk-road-the-bactrian-camel-in-chinese-jade/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 404\, Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211016T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211016T120000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
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SUMMARY:To hear is to see: Yoshitomo Nara and his love for music
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art.\n\nTo hear is to see: Yoshitomo Nara and his love for music\n\n\nDate: 16 October 2021 (Saturday)\nTime: 11:00am-12:00pm\nVenue: Lecture Hall\, Hong Kong Museum of Art\, Tsim Sha Tsui\nRegistration: Email to office@friendshkmoa.hk \nThis event is free for HKU students with valid student card. Please specify you are an HKU student in the registration.  \nPlaces are limited and are offered on a first-come-first-served basis. \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. Vanessa Wong
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/to-hear-is-to-see-yoshitomo-nara-and-his-love-for-music/
LOCATION:Hong Kong Museum of Art\, 10 Salisbury Rd\, Tsim Sha Tsui\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210724T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210724T123000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152218
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SUMMARY:Biennales: Theatre(s) of Global Art?
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association and our Department\, and is supported by HKU Museum Society\nBiennales: Theatre(s) of Global Art?\nDate: 24 July 2021 (Saturday) \nTime: 11:00am-12:30pm\nVenue: Online via Zoom Webinar/ CPD 2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nRegistration: Click here – open on 28/6/2021\, first come first served\, close on 21/7/2021\nAdvanced registration required \nOver the last 15 years many cities from Beijing to Colombo\, Singapore to Sharjah have jumped on the biennale bandwagon. The Venice Biennale may have set a historical precedent for spectacular art events but what does the more recent proliferation of biennales tell us? Are biennales a new fashionable art trend or a sign of increased awareness of global art practice? Through a consideration of various locations in Asia\, Europe\, and the Americas\, this talk will touch upon some of the key historical and contemporary examples of biennales and how they have impacted the global circuits of art from 1980 to the present. \nSpeaker: Kathleen Wyma\nDr Wyma is visiting assistant professor at the Department of Art History\, The University of Hong Kong. She teaches courses on contemporary global\, modern and South Asian art history\, among which is ARTH2090: Blockbusters\, bonanzas\, and biennales: contemporary art in the global age. Her research focuses on post 1945 Indian art\, with a special interest in post colonialism and the impact of intercultural exchange in an increasing globalized art world.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/biennales-theatres-of-global-art/
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=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210629T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210629T191500
DTSTAMP:20260521T152219
CREATED:20210624T092741Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210526T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260521T152219
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:20260521T152219
CREATED:20210518T030653Z
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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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