MCLC: Tate events, Feb. 2015

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Tate events, Feb. 2015
TATE Research Centre: Asia-Pacific
Upcoming Events
‘When Anxiety Becomes Attitude–What Constitutes Contemporary Chinese Art?
The Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Thursday 5 February, 2015, 17:30-19:00 pm
Tate Visiting Fellow Dr Wang Chunchen, Head of the Department of Curatorial Research of CAFA Art Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts China, in conversation with: Dr Shane McCausland, Reader in the History of Art of China at SOAS, University of London
The Courtauld Institute of Art in collaboration with the Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific. The event is also generously supported by The Cass Sculpture Foundation.
As space is limited, advance booking is necessary, please email trc.asiapacific at tate.org.uk to reserve a place.
‘Advance through Retreat’
Tuesday 17 February, 2015, 17:30-19:30
Main Lecture Theatre
Chelsea College of Art
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU
For nearly two decades, traditional Chinese culture and traditional media has been a subject within the field of contemporary Chinese art. Numerous biennials and exhibitions on the topic—for example, the project for the first Chinese Pavilion at the ‘Venice Biennial in 2003′, and most recently ‘Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dec. 2013)— indicate the existence of a tendency that is gaining ever greater importance, a tendency which shows the apparent need to rediscover and revaluate Chinese traditional culture. Up to the present day, the subject is mostly discussed under aspects of technique, media, aesthetics and values associated with traditional Chinese literati culture. The subject is tackled either to reaffirm a Chinese cultural identity or to revisit the East/West dichotomy, a spectre haunting Chinese cultural theory and critique since the mid-19th century. Yet, there are other crucial facets to traditional Chinese culture that have been vital for contemporary Chinese culture since its emergence in the late 1970s. These artistic positions use tradition to develop autonomous languages uttering positions of resistance to overall assimilating tendencies. Here the retreat into tradition is employed as an efficient strategy facing a specific historical moment.
As space is limited, advance booking is necessary, please email trc.asiapacific at tate.org.uk to reserve a place. Please note individual responses will not be sent, however, there will be an automated one as update.
Visiting Fellows in 2014 and 2015
Martina Koeppel-Yang, Independent scholar based in Paris, 2013 – 2015
Joan Kee, Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , Sep- Dec 2014
Dana Arnold, Professor Dana Arnold, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Middlesex University London, Sep 2014- Dec 2015
Wang Chunchen, Head of the Department of Curatorial Research of CAFA Art Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts China, Mid Jan – mid Feb 2015
Jung-Ah Woo, Assistant Professor at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in Postech (Pohang University of Science and Technology), South Korea, Spring 2015 (TBC, possibly based in Hong Kong)
Voon Pow Bartlett 
by denton.2 at osu.edu on February 4, 2015
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