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 Beyond Chineseness: Graduate Symposium

 

             With the recent exhibition of Xu Bing’s works in the Smithsonian, with the twenty-one years participation of Chinese artists in the Venice Biennialle and various other high profile exposures of contemporary Chinese art, the contemporary art world is no longer complete if China is left out. As Chinese artists struggle between tradition and modernity or concepts of east and west, cultural individuality and diversity are constantly articulated in their works as well as in their forming identity.

As a part of graduate training, students and professors in the Department of Art, University of Hawaii, have organized the First Graduate Symposium “Beyond Chineseness,” in which papers and discussions are centered on various issues of China’s new art.

The symposium will take place at the Auditorium, Art Building

University of Hawaii, Manoa

November 5, 2001

6:30 p. m. to 10: 00 p. m.

Program

6:30--7:00    

Registration and Refreshment

7:00--7:10

Introducing China’s New Art and the Symposium

Hsingyuan Tsao, Professor of Chinese Art History

7:10--7:20

Opening Remarks

Professor John Wisnosky, Chair, Department of Art

Professor Nancy Dowling, Graduate Adviser

7:20--7:50

Panel Chair: Hsingyuan Tsao

Speaker: Ka Wang

“Diaspora and Diversity: Three Chinese Women Artists in America”

Discussant: Jessica Jones

7:50--8:40

Panel Chair: Edward Davis, Professor of Chinese History

7:50--8:15

Speaker: Lynn Mayegawa

“Displayed Identities: Visual Links to China’s Past”

Discussant: Megan Callan

8:15--8:40                                                                             

Speaker: Dan Donahue

“Chinese and Brazilians--Into the Postmodern World”

Discussant: Angela Padayhay                           

8:40--9:30

Panel Chair: Ming-Bao Yue, Professor of East Asian Languages & Literature

8:40--9:05

Speaker: Karen Lee

“Girls vs. Boys: the Preferred Choice of Representing Boys from China’s Past to Present”

Discussant: Jessica Ichinose

9:05--9:30

Speaker: Kazuko Madar

“Chinese Faces, Japanese Faces, Today and Yesterday"

Discussant: Leah Cladeira

9:30--9:45

General Discussion

9:45--10:00

Refreshment

 

   

     Guan Xue Sleep

 

   

    Dongbianmen Gallery

 

  

   Cai Guoqiang  Rent Collecting House Installation, Venice Biennialle

 

   

      Jiang Jie Fragile Objects, Mixed media      installation 

  

   

    Fang Lijun Untitled

 

     

      Liu Wei Parents

   

Zhan Wang onstructions