Contested Ground: Visual Culture in China after 1989
October 14- 15, 2011
University of Kentucky

                                                                             Photo by: Liu Xiaodong

Friday, October 14 - 5:00pm

Keynote Lecture
Singletary Center for the Performing Arts President's Room

" After-Shock and After-Image: A Chinese "Neorealist" Painter's Engagement with the Real in the Postmedium and Post-Earthquake Situation "
Professor Eugene Wang, Harvard University

Saturday, October 15 - 9:00am to 5:30pm

Symposium
Briggs Theater, UK Fine Arts Building
9:00am - Coffee and Registration

9:30am - Opening Remarks
Anna Brzyski, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Kentucky

10:00am- 12:00 noon Session

"798 Art Factory: Unstable Diversity of Chinese Art"
Chunchen Wang, CAFA

"Theory and Practice: The Modern Chinese Art Museums"
Gan Zhang, Tsinghua University

"Walls, Public Sphere, and Chinese Architecture: the Dafen Art Museum in Shenzen"
Delin Lai, University of Louisville

12:00 noon - 1:30pm Lunch Break

1:30pm- 3:30pm Session

"Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China "
Xuefei Ren, Michigan State Univ./ Woodrow Wilson Institute, DC

"Painting the Still Life of Socialist Ruins: The Film Art of Jia Zhangke"
Sheldon H. Lu, UC Davis

"Subject to Movement: Wu Wenguang and the Ethics of Self-Othering"
Yingjin Zhang, UC San Diego


3:30pm- 4:00pm- Coffee break

4:00pm- 5:30pm - Round table discussion: The contested ground of contemporary Chinese visual cultures

 

Presented by: UK College of Fine Arts, Art Department, UK College of Arts & Sciences, UK Confucius Institute