MCLC: AAS Urban Space and Visual Culture panel

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Xavier Ortells <ortells.xavier at gmail.com>
Subject: AAS Urban Space and Visual Culture panel
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Dear members of MCLC,

We would like to invite those of you attending AAS meeting to our panel on
the relationship of urban space and contemporary visual media and art in
China.

We have put together a group of diverse and stimulating papers covering
contemporary video, photography and film representations of the urban
experience, and would benefit from your contribution to our discussion.

Very best,

Xavier Ortells-Nicolau

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Panel title: "Shooting, Building, Dwelling: Urban Space and Contemporary
Visual Culture in China"

Saturday, March 28, 2014
From 10:45 to 12:45pm
Room 413

Discussant: Weihong Bao (University of California, Berkeley)

Participants:

Angela Becher (SOAS, University of London)
"Between Lure and Repudiation: Mapping the Visual Discourse on Monumental
Architecture in Contemporary Chinese Film and Art"

Xavier Ortells-Nicolau (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
"Roaming through Rubble: Aesthetic Experimentalism in Photographs of the
Demolition Site"

Lu Pan (University of Hong Kong)
"Abandoned Negatives and Themeless Parks: Ways of Seeing Contemporary
China in Two Photographic Projects"

Benny Shaffer (Harvard University)
"City Limits: Surrealist Impulses in Contemporary Independent Documentary
and Video Art in China"