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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220331T193000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
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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
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211207T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211207T183000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
CREATED:20211124T062205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211124T085248Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211111T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
CREATED:20211102T092237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T013112Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T133000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
CREATED:20211102T090844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T075058Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
CREATED:20211019T035011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T092057Z
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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:20211021T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T183000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
CREATED:20211007T060736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T082237Z
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SUMMARY:Applying to Graduate School
DESCRIPTION:Art History Workshop:\nApplying to Graduate School\nDate: 21 October 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:30-6:20pm\nVenue: CRT4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\nSpeakers: Dr. Susanna McFadden\, Dr. Vivian Sheng\, Dr. Anne Williams \nEach fall\, the Department of Art History holds a workshop to provide information and advice about applying to graduate schools in art history. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA. We will discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We will also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/applying-to-graduate-school-2021/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 404\, Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211016T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211016T120000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115846
CREATED:20211011T075340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T081151Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210914T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20220110T042835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T043116Z
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SUMMARY:Arrive Where We Start
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibition is curated by students from ARTH2092 Photography in North America\nArrive Where We Start\nDate: 14 September 2021 – 31 January 2022\nVenue: Art History Department corridor\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\n \nThis exhibition evolved out an extracurricular activity undertaken by the students of ATHR2092: Photography in North America. The class project was designed to cultivate greater historical awareness about the theory and practice of picture taking. The students were invited to consider the visual strategies and conceptual frames of modern photography and respond through the lenses of their own cameras. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/arrive-where-we-start/
LOCATION:Art History Department corridor
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Exhibition
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210809T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210809T120000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210726T080628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210809T071238Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop for ARTH4005
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk 2021-2022\nThis zoom meeting will give an introduction to ARTH4005 Art History Internship and provide more information about available internship positions in our host institutions— Art Promotion Office\, Asia Art Archive\, Centre for Heritage Art & Textile\, Hong Kong Maritime Museum and University Museum and Art Gallery—for the academic year 2021-2022. \nFor the application 2021-2022\, you may also apply for the international internships at Hong Kong House\, Echigo-Triennale Japan. Please refer to our website Hong Kong House at Echigo-Tsumari – Art History @HKU. Dr Koon will be speaking about this programme in the introductory session. \nDate: 9 August 2021 (Monday)\nTime: 11:00 AM (Hong Kong time)\nVenue: Online via Zoom\nGuest Speakers: \nDr Libby Chan (Chief Curator; Hong Kong Maritime Museum);\nCarol Choi (Learning and Participation Coordinator; Asia Art Archive);\nWendy Wo (Director of Exhibition Management; Centre for Heritage\, Arts and Textile) \nRegistration: required  (CLICK HERE) \nPPT & Recording: available (PPT- CLICK HERE; Zoom recording- CLICK HERE) \n  \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/arth4005-workshop-2021/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2021-2022,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210724T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210724T123000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210624T080239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T025605Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210703T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210703T120000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210726T094253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T094912Z
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SUMMARY:HKUFAAA: Into the Unknown
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association (HKUFAAA)\nInto the Unknown: Young Alumni Sharing on Career\nDate: 3 July 2021 (Saturday)\nTime: 10:30-12:00pm\nVenue: Online (Zoom)\nMedium: English\nRegistration: required\, before 30 June noon (register now)\n \nGraduation is exciting but it may also be daunting. No one is going to tell you what to do next\, so have you already made up your mind? Have you sent out any CV yet? We understand the possible difficulties in getting the very first job in the art field\, because we have been through it. 5 young alumni are invited to share with you their own experience. Find out the journey that they have come through to be where they are now! \nHost:\nMs. Nicole Fung and Mr. Mike Wong (HKUFAAA) \nAlumni speakers:\nDr. Chan Chunwa (Assistant Professor\, Department of Art History\, HKU)\nMs. Madeline Lai (Project Coordinator\, Art Museum CUHK)\nMs. Carman Lau (MAAH Administrator\, Department of Art History\, HKU)\nMs. Erin Li (Assistant Curator\, Tai Kwun)\nMs. Angel Yip (Assistant Curator II Chinese Antiquities\, Hong Kong Museum of Art)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/hkufaaa-into-the-unknown/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Information
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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=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210629T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210629T191500
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210624T092741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210709T021455Z
UID:8271-1624989600-1624994100@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210526T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210308T045528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T034025Z
UID:7273-1622057400-1622062800@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210521T070000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210521T080000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210518T030653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T035826Z
UID:7691-1621580400-1621584000@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210520T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210510T025627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T092644Z
UID:7672-1621528200-1621533600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:From China to France
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nFrom China to France: The Production and Reception of Chinese Paper-making Images in the 18th century\nDate: 20 May 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nVenue: online (click here for the zoom link); Room CPD 2.45 (with a capacity of 20\, first come first served)\nMeeting ID: 965 0195 3034 (password: 469077)\nSpeaker: Summer Xiaomin Wen\, Ph.D. candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nPaper traditionally is regarded as one of the “Four Treasures of the Study (Wen fang si bao 文房四寶)” and is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of China. Visual representations of paper production flourished in the 18th century Qing (1644-1912) empire. During this time\, a series of independently produced albums dedicated to the production of bamboo paper were initiated and were sent from China to France and other European locations. My research focus on two paper-making albums in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France\, presently entitled as the Fabrication du Papier (The Fabrication of Paper) and the Art de faire le papier à la Chine (The Art of Making Paper in the Chinese Manner). The former was given to the library by the Sinologist Stanislas Julien (1797-1873) in 1840\, the latter was acquired through an auction of the late French book-dealer and King’s secretary Louis-François Delatour’s (1727-1807) collection. The primary interest of my research is to reconstruct the formation and reception of these paper-making albums to address issues such as the cross-cultural exchanges of technology\, commodities\, visual and material cultures between the Qing empire and France in the eighteenth century. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/from-china-to-france/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210421T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210421T180000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210419T020000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T034249Z
UID:7603-1619024400-1619028000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Who is Yoshitomo Nara?
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by The University of Hong Kong Museum Society.\n\nOnline Lecture: “Who is Yoshitomo Nara?” with Dr. Yeewan Koon\n\n\nDate: 21 April 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5-6pm\nVenue: Zoom \nTo register\, please click here \nRenowned for the big-headed girls\, Yoshitomo Nara is one of Japan’s most iconic artists of our time. Inspired by music\, literature\, childhood memories\, Nara explores the themes of isolation\, rebellion\, and spirituality through painting\, sculpture\, ceramic and installation. \nThe HKU Museum Society is pleased to invite Dr. Yeewan Koon\, author of the newly published monograph Nara Yoshitomo (Phaidon\, 2020) to share her research on Nara and her experience of working with the artist.  This talk will be moderated by Catherine Kwai\, Founder and Managing Director of Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery. \nLecture Synopsis \nYoshitomo Nara is an international artist but whose fame sometimes eclipse our understanding of his art. This talk provides an introduction to his practice\, the events that have shaped them\, and the new directions being taken in his artworks. This lecture is also a lesson in looking. We will spend time examining and discussing his works by looking closely at how he paints and to use our discoveries to enrich our understanding of who is Yoshitomo Nara. \nSpeaker \nDr. Yeewan Koon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. She has published numerous works including Nara Yoshitomo (2020)\, “A Chinese Canton? Painting the Local in Export Art” (2018) and A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in 19th Century Guangdong (2014). She is the recipient of several research awards including a Fulbright Senior Fellowship\, American Council of Learned Scholars\, and visiting scholarships at Cambridge University and Columbia University. Dr. Koon also works in the contemporary art field as a critic and curator. In 2014\, she was guest curator of It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing at the Asia Society\, Hong Kong Center\, and was one of the selected curators for the 12th Gwangju Biennale\, 2018. She is currently working on an international exhibition of Hong Kong art for 2021. \nModerator \nMs Catherine Kwai is the Founder and Managing Director of Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery. She established Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery in 1991\, motivated by a passion for art and her wish to bridge the cultural exchange between China and the West. Kwai Fung Hin reflects the strength and knowledge for the 20th century art in China and Europe. In the past 30 years\, Kwai Fung Hin has organized over 100 exhibitions at the gallery and has collaborated and curated exhibitions with renowned museums and institutes. Kwai Fung Hin has collaborated with international publishing house Rizzoli to publish artists’ monograph. In 2011\, Ms Catherine Kwai was made “Knight of the National Order of the Merit” for her contribution to the arts.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/online-lecture-who-is-yoshitomo-nara-with-dr-yeewan-koon/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210415T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210408T083811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T085423Z
UID:7579-1618504200-1618509600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Pheasants and the Jiangnan Literati
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nPheasants and the Jiangnan Literati: Pheasant Paintings of Wang Yuan (act. c.1300 – 1360)\nDate: 15 April 2021 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nVenue: online (click here for the zoom link)\nMeeting ID: 975 8542 7572 (password: 020106)\nSpeaker: Leung Ge Yau Candy\, Ph.D. candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nBirds have a long history of serving as motifs to represent auspicious meaning in visual representations in Chinese culture. Colourful paintings with phoenixes\, cranes and a variety of birds expressing good wishes of longevity and fortune adorn the walls of tombs and palaces of the imperial and aristocratic families of the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties. At times\, different species of birds are presented in background settings with specific seasonal flowers to make up rebuses carrying ideas of prosperity in paintings. In this seminar\, through the examination of the motif of the pheasant in textual and visual representations\, I seek to explore the meanings of pheasants beyond readings of rebuses and representations of auspiciousness. I closely examine three pheasant paintings of the Yuan painter Wang Yuan 王淵 (act. c. 1300 – 1360) to propose that the artist depicted the bird paintings in a specific way to appeal to regional elite patrons. He deployed contrasting brushwork to create images of a paradise for recluses that draws upon features of Jiangnan gardens and land. In this talk\, I discuss how some educated elites in Yuan-era Jiangnan sought to showcase their knowledge and cultural accomplishments\, establishing in part their literati identity through the appreciation and possession of pheasant paintings. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/pheasants-and-the-jiangnan-literati/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210307T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210307T163000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210308T063157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210729T035021Z
UID:7279-1615127400-1615134600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Marginalisation and Empowerment
DESCRIPTION:CGED Research Seminar Series 2020-2021:\nMarginalisation and Empowerment: Voices of Hong Kong Women\nPanel 2: Visual Storytelling: Photography as Empowerment\n\nDate: 7 March 2021 (Sunday) \nTime: 2:30-4:30pm\nVenue: Zoom \nThis seminar is co-organised by the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity (CGED)\, Faculty of Arts\, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)\, and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) as a concurrent event of the photo exhibition “The Way We Are” at G/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\, from 6-23 March 2021. \nIn 1989\, American scholar and civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to capture how various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other\, arguing that neither sexism nor racism alone could account for experiences of oppression among African American women. \nThirty years on\, the concept remains a useful and relevant lens to understand the marginalisation of women in different cultural contexts. Focusing on carers\, non-Chinese youth\, migrant workers and new arrivals from mainland China\, this seminar examines how gender\, ethnic identity and socio-economic status continue to intersect and inform the challenges facing underrepresented women in Hong Kong today\, and their implications for public policy. It also explores the history and potential of art – photography in particular – as a medium of empowerment and catharsis. \nModerator: Roslyn L. Hammers \nThis seminar is co-organised by the Faculty of Arts and Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/marginalisation-and-empowerment-voices-of-hong-kong-women/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210120T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210120T110000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210114T040016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T020235Z
UID:7111-1611136800-1611140400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | No longer just a girl with a knife: Art after Fukushima
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | No longer just a girl with a knife: Art after Fukushima\n\n\n\n\nDate: 20 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yoshitomo-nara-no-longer-just-a-girl-with-a-knife-art-after-fukushima/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210113T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210113T110000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210111T104514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T020220Z
UID:7098-1610532000-1610535600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | Nara\, kawaii\, and the "Superflat" concept
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | Nara\, kawaii\, and the “Superflat” concept\n\n\n\n\nDate: 13 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-conversation-yoshitomo-nara-nara-kawaii-and-the-superflat-concept/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210106T110000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20210104T073415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210419T020201Z
UID:7044-1609927200-1609930800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | Who is that big-headed girl?
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | Who is that big-headed girl?\n\n\n\n\nDate: 6 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade. \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yoshitomo-nara-who-is-that-big-headed-girl/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201214T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201214T110000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20201217T063954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T063954Z
UID:7004-1607940000-1607943600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Laboring of Art
DESCRIPTION:Art History Seminar:\nThe Laboring of Art: The Rise of Socialist Amateur Art Practice and the Arrival of the Contemporary in the People’s Republic of China\nDate: 14 December 2020 (Monday) \nTime: 10:00am\nVenue: Zoom\n \nRegistration required. \nThis talk takes up the question of amateur art practice during the socialist period (late 1940s to late 1970s) in China\, and its attempt to convert the rarified practice of processional\, academy-trained artists into an everyday praxis. Known variously as yeyu meishu chuangzuo\, qunzhong meishu huodong\, gongnongbing meishu\, and nongmin hua\, amateur art practice originated from small art study groups held at industrial and agricultural labor sites\, where rural farmers and industrial workers met to create images depicting their labor and lifestyles. I argue that socialist amateur art practice not only changed the class and labor relations that had previously defined the fine arts\, but also converted the expert and professional cultures of the fine arts into a grassroots practice of the everyday. By creating new publics for art appreciation\, and by centering art production outside the academy\, amateur art practice challenged the dominance of the art academy as a legitimizing site of training\, and evacuated concepts of artistic genius and technical accomplishment. I end the talk by connecting the amateur art activity of the socialist period with the experimental art practices of the Reform period\, asking how the mantle of avant-garde practices was passed from the revolutionary guard to its political and cultural dissidents. \nSpeaker: Angie Baecker  \nAngie Baecker is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the cultural and material history of Maoist China\, the politics of aesthetic\, and the postsocialist legacy in contemporary China. She received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Michigan\, and holds a master’s degree in modern Chinese literature from Tsinghua University.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-laboring-of-art/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201210T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20201202T024127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T061634Z
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SUMMARY:Watermoon Avalokiteshvara Paintings and their Viewers and Producers in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nWatermoon Avalokiteshvara Paintings and their Viewers and Producers in East Asia\nDate: 10 December 2020 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:30-6:30pm \nVenue: 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nOnline attendance via Zoom is possible (click here for the zoom link)\nMeeting ID: 979 3264 4258 (no password required) \nAbstract\nEver since its earliest inception in the metropolitan capitals of Luoyang and Chang’an of Tang China (618-907 CE)\, Watermoon Avalokiteshvara as a subject matter of depiction had spread to different polities of East Asia in the following centuries. Polities such as Wuyue (907-978 CE) and Song (960-1279 CE) in China continued to produce Watermoon Avalokiteshvara images\, making stylistic and iconographic innovations that reflect the different preferences of the day. This image was also spread to Japan and Korea. By the 14th century\, both Kamakura Japan (1192-1333 CE) and the Koryo Kingdom (918-1392 CE) in Korea had become important centres for consuming and producing images of Watermoon Avalokiteshvara. \nIn this presentation\, I first argue how one should view Watermoon Avalokiteshvara paintings in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-979 CE) and Song periods alongside contemporaneous art historical development. Most relevant to this discussion is landscape painting’s development as genre. I then revisit the Koryo examples and argue for a multi-identities perspective of viewing them both as representative of Koryo national style and within the context of the larger Yuan imperium (1271-1368 CE). This transnational perspective can also garner better understandings of what I termed Sino-Japanese examples found in 14th century Kamakura Japan. This presentation concludes with a close reading of two enigmatic examples of Watermoon Avalokiteshvara in the Nara National Museum and the Rijksmuseum collections in Japan and the Netherlands. I shall argue how these works are results of transnational exchanges. \nSpeaker\nMr. Konstance Chuntung Li is a final year doctoral student at the Department of Art History\, University of Hong Kong. He holds a M.St. in Archaeology from the University of Oxford. His current research has received generous support from the Japan Foundation and is a comprehensive study that examines Watermoon Avalokiteshvara paintings in East Asia from the 9th to the 14th centuries. At present\, Mr. Li is also a member of the National Gallery Singapore’s Language Panel.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/watermoon-avalokiteshvara-paintings-and-their-viewers-and-producers-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201125T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201125T183000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20201028T071954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T025444Z
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SUMMARY:“On the Museum's Ruins” An introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)
DESCRIPTION:Art History Lecture Series:\n“On the Museum’s Ruins”\nAn introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)\nDate: 4\, 11\, 25 November 2020 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-6:30pm \nVenue: CPD-2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nRegistration required. Please email maah@hku.hk. \nOn the occasion of this year’s translation to Chinese of Douglas Crimp’s seminal book On The Museum’s Ruins (1993)\, the Department of Art History offers an introductory course the discursive field of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019)\, the art historian\, critic\, curator and AIDS activist\, who generated some of the most enduring\, foundational texts on postmodern art\, queer theory\, and institutional critique. \nGuest Lecturer Professor: Inti Guerrero (Hong Kong) \nInti Guerrero is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator at Tate Modern (since 2016). He has curated exhibitions and symposia in institutions globally\, and has published in journals including Afterall (Central Saint Martins). In Hong Kong\, he has curated and co-curated exhibitions at Para Site and Asia Art Archive. \n  \nSeminar Readings \nDAY 1: 4 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[Chinese] Crimp\, Douglas. “On the Museum’s Ruins.” In On the Museum’s Ruins\, trans. Y. Tang\, 33-50. Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing Ltd\, 2020.\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “On the Museum’s Ruins.” In On the Museum’s Ruins\, 44-60. Cambridge: MIT Press\, 1993. \nDAY 2: 11 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “Pictures.” October 8 (Spring 1979): 75-88. \nDAY 3: 25 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “The Boys in my Bedroom.” In Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics\, 151-163. Cambridge: MIT Press\, 2002.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/on-the-museums-ruins-an-introduction-to-douglas-crimp-1944-2019/
LOCATION:CPD-2.16\, CPD 2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201117T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201117T193000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20201111T180023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T094726Z
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SUMMARY:HKUFAAA: Knowing Botticelli
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association (HKUFAAA).\n\nKnowing Botticelli\n\n\nDate: 17 November 2020 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Online (Zoom) \nSpeaker: Dr. Sim Hinman WAN\nMedium: English \nCost: Free\nRegistration: required\, before 17 November noon (register now)\nZoom Meeting ID: 964 4575 6433\n(URL and password will be sent in an email confirmation) \nWelcoming all alumni and friends\, this online talk aims to complement the current exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Botticelli and His Times– Masterworks from the Uffizi” (open until 24 Feb 2021) at Hong Kong Museum of Art. It will provide a historical context for audience to further understand and appreciate those masterpieces on display. It will also cover some other paintings by this extraordinary Florentine artist and comparisons will be drawn among them. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/knowing-botticelli/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201028T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201028T153000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20201017T055840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T060534Z
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SUMMARY:Applying to Graduate School
DESCRIPTION:Art History Workshop:\nApplying to Graduate School\nDate: 28 October 2020\nTime: 2:30-3:30pm (Hong Kong time)\nZoom Meeting ID: 951 89537541 (URL) \nPassword: Refer to department email (for majors and minors\, no prior registration required) \nEach fall\, the department holds a workshop to provide information and advice about applying to graduate schools in art history. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA. We’ll discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We’ll also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/applying-to-graduate-school-2020/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200909T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200909T193000
DTSTAMP:20260712T115847
CREATED:20200825T081852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T084051Z
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SUMMARY:An Unexpected Masterpiece
DESCRIPTION:Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture\nAn Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll\nDate:  9 September 2020 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30-7:30pm\nRegistration: Click here to join the Free Facebook Live Webinar \nThis lecture introduces one of the most unusual iconic works in Chinese art history. It is a painting that by all counts should not be a “masterpiece.” It is a painting of ghosts (rather than a landscape)\, it is a handscroll of smaller paintings in uneven sizes mounted together (therefore somewhat ad hoc)\, and it was made by an artist seeking patrons after years of being under his charismatic teacher’s shadow. It also collected over 160 admiring colophons. So why did this painting garner such attention? Why is Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll important? This lecture given by HKU’s Dr. Yeewan Koon in conversation with Orientations Magazine publisher Yifawn Lee looks at how Chinese paintings are mediators of intimate relationships\, whether between painters and their audiences or between masters and disciples\, and why the strange world of ghosts captured the imagination of an eighteenth-century Chinese art world. \nArt and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture is a series of public lectures organized by the Art History Department\, The University of Hong Kong and presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art\, and the University of Hong Kong Museum Society. The programs aim to deliver current art-historical thinking in an accessible manner presented by specialists in the field. The series is part of the Art History Department’s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  \nDr. Yeewan Koon is Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. Her primary research is on Chinese painting and she is currently completing a study on the “self-knowing” copy in the sixteenth century. Koon’s academic interest also expands into contemporary art in Asia with a recent monograph of Yoshitomo Nara\, and curatorial work at the Gwangju Biennale (2018) and a forthcoming exhibition on Hong Kong art in Helsinki (2021). She is the recipient of numerous awards including from the American Council of Learned Scholar\, and as Fulbright Senior Fellow. \nYifawn Lee is the publisher and editor of Orientations\, a scholarly magazine for collectors and connoisseurs of East and Southeast Asia\, the Himalayas and South Asia founded in 1969. After finishing her studies\, she worked in finance and later joined Orientations in 2008. In 2014\, she founded Asian Art Hong Kong as a platform to provide art-related lectures and events. In 2018\, she helped organize ‘The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia’ at Liang Yi Museum and ‘From Two Arises Three: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney’ at The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong. She currently sits on the advisory board of Liang Yi Museum and on the executive committee of the Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art. \nCo-presented by: \n                  
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/an-unexpected-masterpiece/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Lecture Series
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