Tickets are now available for Making the New World: The Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution a two-day international conference convened by Prof. Jiehong Jiang, director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery.
When: 11-12 November 2016
Venue: Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, E1 7QX.
We invite researchers, artists, designers, curators and practitioners at all stages of their careers worldwide to reassess the significance of the arts and culture of the Cultural Revolution, the 9th CCVA Annual Conference reflects upon their impacts on everyday life in China within socio-political, cultural and global contexts.
The following set of ten ‘relationships’ are indicative of the topics that the conference will consider:
- Art, culture and politics
- Art, mass art and non-art
- Amateur and professional: artists, participants and audiences
- Art production, dissemination and reception
- Collective and private spaces: squares, streets and buildings
- The conformity and the rebellions: uniforms and the body
- Mass assemblies and parades: performative and immersive experiences
- Model operas, musicals and everyday life
- Songs, voices and the spirit
- Written words and images.
Speakers include Keynote Prof. Richard King (Uni. of Victoria); Chairs: Prof. Craig Clunas (Uni.of Oxford), Prof. Chris Berry (King’s College) and Prof. Harriet Evans (Uni.of Westminster); and presentations from Minerva Inwald, Wang Gerui, Kristine Harris, Christine Ho, Vivian Li, Zhang Li, Linda Pittwood,Yawen Ludden, Martin Mulloy, Mark Nash, Eldon Pei, Wang Rujie, Corey Schultz and Andreas Steen.
Tickets: £30/£25 conc (2 days) £17.50/£14.50 conc (1 day)
To book a place and to find out more details about the programme and speakers please visit: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/making-the-new-world-china-cultural-revolution-conference/
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design,
media and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices and theoretical studies.
Web: http://www.ccva.org.uk/
Email: CCVA@BCU.ac.uk