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2018 Symposium | It Begins with a Story: Artists, Writers, and Periodicals in Asia

《設計家》封面,第四期,1967年。 Courtesy of Chiang Poshin.
《設計家》封面,第四期,1967年。 Courtesy of Chiang Poshin.
《季刊美術》封面,第一期,1976年。 Courtesy of Insoo Cho.
《季刊美術》封面,第一期,1976年。 Courtesy of Insoo Cho.
《創作與批評》封面,1978年出版。 Courtesy of Hyejong Yoo.
《創作與批評》封面,1978年出版。 Courtesy of Hyejong Yoo.
《墨美》封面,第十二期,Franz Kline的作品《Painting No. 3》特寫,1952年5月。 Courtesy of Naomi Kuromiya.
《墨美》封面,第十二期,Franz Kline的作品《Painting No. 3》特寫,1952年5月。 Courtesy of Naomi Kuromiya.
《Journal of Arts and Ideas》封面,第二期,1983年。
《Journal of Arts and Ideas》封面,第二期,1983年。
《Pakistan Quarterly》封面,1955年11月。 Courtesy of Samina Iqbal.
《Pakistan Quarterly》封面,1955年11月。 Courtesy of Samina Iqbal.
《Văn Nghệ》封面,第34期,1951年12月15日,由Bùi Xuân Phái負責插畫,河內越南國家圖書館館藏。
《Văn Nghệ》封面,第34期,1951年12月15日,由Bùi Xuân Phái負責插畫,河內越南國家圖書館館藏。
街頭熱賣《北京青年報》, 1992年3月28日。
街頭熱賣《北京青年報》, 1992年3月28日。
A panel from an undated journal by Rox Lee, later included in Cesar Asar in the Planet of the Noses (2008).  Courtesy of Rox Lee.
A panel from an undated journal by Rox Lee, later included in Cesar Asar in the Planet of the Noses (2008). Courtesy of Rox Lee.
Cover of Azerbaijani periodical Qyzyl Qalam, 1924.
Cover of Azerbaijani periodical Qyzyl Qalam, 1924.
Cover of Ekshan, 1971.  Courtesy of Spandan Bhattacharya.
Cover of Ekshan, 1971. Courtesy of Spandan Bhattacharya.
Sunday Mingpao, 2011, 2014, 2015.  Courtesy of Anthony Leung Po-shan.
Sunday Mingpao, 2011, 2014, 2015. Courtesy of Anthony Leung Po-shan.

Organised by Asia Art Archive in collaboration with The University of Hong Kong, this symposium explores how periodicals have fostered conversations around art and emergent forms of visuality in twentieth-century Asia.

 

Periodicals are exemplary for how they bring technologies of word, image, and print together with notions of aesthetics, practices of viewing, and circuits of dissemination. The adage “modernism began in the magazines” is certainly true for Asia, where print media has been instrumental in taking debates, discourses, and images of art to wide audiences.

 

Periodicals have been more than just platforms or sites for artistic experimentation and exhibition; they have themselves shaped and staged them. In so doing, periodicals have played a defining role in forming diverse publics for art in Asia.

 

The papers presented in the symposium explore periodicals in relation to  emerging practices that cut across genres, new nomenclatures and aesthetic propositions, verbal and visual manifestos, the production of alternative publics and communities for art, and other topics.

 

 

Date: 11–13 Jan 2018

Venue: The University of Hong Kong
 

 


Thu, 11 Jan 2018
Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong

5pm | Welcoming remarks
Derek COLLINS, Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong
Claire HSU, Executive Director, Asia Art Archive

 

5:10pm | Introduction
Chương-Đaì VÕ, Researcher, Asia Art Archive

 

5:30pm | Keynote | Reading the Zeitgeist
Speaker: Charles ESCHE, Director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Co-founder of Afterall journal
Moderator: Yeewan KOON, Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts at The University of Hong Kong

 



Fri, 12 Jan 2018
Venue: CPD-3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong

10:30am | War and Alternative Modernities

 

 

Transformational in Form, Socialist in Content: An Exploration of the Aesthetics and Content of Early Soviet Turkic Periodicals—Michael ERDMAN, Curator, Turkish and Turkic Collections, The British Library

Pakistan Quarterly: Art Historical Evidence—Samina IQBAL, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, Lahore School of Economics

Improvisation and Ambiguity: Visual Artists, Revolution, and Debate in the Periodical Văn Nghệ During the First Indochina War (1946–1954)—Phoebe SCOTT, Curator, National Gallery Singapore

Moderator: Chương-Đaì VÕ, Researcher, Asia Art Archive

 


12:15pm | Break


1:30pm | Underground and Overground

 

Manila, Punks, Robots: Towards an Alternative Cultural Cartography of 1970s to 1990s Manila Through Its Unofficial Publications—Mervin ESPINA, Program Director, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila

Connecting Art to Society: A Preliminary Look at Sunday Mingpao—Anthony LEUNG Po-Shan, PhD in Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Korean Dissident Journal Creation and Critique (Changjakgwa Bipyeong): Envisioning an Alternative Modernity in the 1960s–1970s—Hyejong YOO, Art Historian, Seoul

Moderator: Yeewan KOON, Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts at The University of Hong Kong

 



Sat, 13 Jan 2018
Venue: CPD-3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong

10:30am | Aesthetics and Internationalism

 

The Trespass of Non-design: The Avant-Garde Experiments ofDesigner and Its Surroundings—CHIANG Poshin, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Tainan National University of the Arts

The Sekai-sei of Circulation: The Catalytic “World Relevance” of the Avant-garde Japanese Calligraphy Periodical Bokubi (1951–1960)—Naomi KUROMIYA, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York

The Journal of Art and Ideas: A Genealogy of Transition—Sophia POWERS, PhD in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Moderator: John TAIN, Head of Research, Asia Art Archive


 

12:15pm | Break


2pm | Intersections of Art and Mass Cultures

 

Designing Prints, Documenting Cultures: Reviewing Bengali Periodical Covers and Illustrations, 1960s–1970s—Spandan BHATTACHARYA, Adjunct Faculty for Film Studies, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi


Kyegan Misool (1976–1988): The Flagship of Korean Art Journals—Insoo CHO, Professor, Art Theory Department, School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts

Mass Media as an Exhibition Site: Beijing Youth Daily and the 1994 Interior Design Art Proposals Exhibition—WU Mo, PhD Candidate, History of Chinese Art, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Sneha RAGAVAN, Researcher, Asia Art Archive


 

3:45pm | Break
 

4pm | Conversation with Li Xianting
 

 

Speaker: LI Xianting, Beijing-based Independent Critic and Curator

Moderator: Anthony YUNG, Researcher, Asia Art Archive

 

 

More information: https://aaa.org.hk/en/programmes/programmes/it-begins-with-a-story-artists-writers-and-periodicals-in-asia/period/current-upcoming

 

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