Dear all
Please see the list of seminars below, organised by Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific for our researchers and Visiting Fellows.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Why Performance in Authoritarian Korea?
Joan Kee
Visiting Fellow at Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific
Joint Seminar organised by the SOAS East Asian Art Research Seminar, SOAS Contemporary Art Research Seminar, and the Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific, London. Supported by the Korean Cultural Centre and the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies.
Room B111, SOAS (First Floor Brunei Building)
Friday 5th December, 3.15-5pm
There is no need to book for the above event at SOAS, it works on a first come first serve basis. However, please do book for the following two events, by sending an email to trc.asiapacific@tate.org.uk.
Close to Nature? Japanese Artists and the Environment, from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Majella Munro
Researcher at Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific, London.
McAulay Seminar Room, Tate Modern
Tuesday 9th December 2014, 4-5.30 pm
With its dramatic and unprecedented history of environmental pollution – including now four serious nuclear incidents – Japanese artists hold a particular stake in questioning and raising awareness of environmental threats. The tsunami, earthquake and nuclear disaster of 2011 facilitated the re-emergence in Japan of a politically dissident and socially-engaged visual culture, eschewing the prolonged focus on aesthetic concerns that had previously dominated. My research analyses this shift in the priorities of the Japanese art world through the work of artists Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Koki Tanaka, and the ChimPom collective; photographer Naoya Hatakeyama; and architects Toyo Ito and Katsuhiro Miyamoto. This seminar explores issues of methodology in the scholarly discussion of contemporary art, the affects of exhibition strategies on artists and audiences, and the impact of the triple disaster on the image of Japan at home and abroad.
Reclaiming Women Artists in Contemporary China
Monica Merlin
Researcher at Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific, London.
McAulay Seminar Room, Tate Modern
Tuesday 16th December 2014, 4-5.30 pm
Women artists from the People’s Republic of China have often been marginalised in debates, studies and exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art. The seminar, as part of a larger research on the topic, will map and revaluate the presence and practice of women artists in contemporary China from the 1970s until today. The talk will aim at exploring the complex intersections between women artists’ production, women’s art (nüxing yishu), the politics of gender, body and feminism in Mainland China.
Please also note the following Visiting Fellows at TRC: AP. For anyone who may be interested in meeting with them, please email trc.asiapacific@tate.org.uk.
Visiting Fellows
Mid Jan – mid Feb 2015
Wang Chunchen, Head of the Department of Curatorial Research of CAFA Art Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts China
2013 – 2014
Martina Koeppel-Yang, independent scholar based in Paris
Sep 2014- Dec 2015
Dana Arnold, Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Middlesex University London
Sep- Dec 2014
Joan Kee, Associate Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Spring 2015 (TBC, possibly based in Hong Kong)
Jung-Ah Woo, Assistant Professor at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in Postech (Pohang University of Science and Technology), South Korea
Thank you
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