From: Lauren Walden
Date: Oct 17, 2020
Subject: CONF: CCVA 13: The World, Two Metres Away (9-10 Nov 20)
Online, November 9 - 10, 2020
Centre for Chinese Visual Arts
The 13th Annual Conference
The World, Two Metres Away
PROGRAM
09 November, Monday
08.45-9.00 Registration and Introduction from Professor Joshua Jiang, CCVA
PANEL ONE: Chinese International Relations and Covid-19
Chair: Professor Jonathan Harris, Birmingham City University.
09.00-09.20 Yan Wu/Matt Wall (Swansea University) Maskphobia,
Orientalism and a Global Pandemic: anti-Chinese racism during Covid-19
09.20-09.40 Nixi Cura (SOAS, London) China Trade
09.40-10.00 Katie Hill (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London) One
Hundred Years of Solitude
10.00-10.20 Laura Leng (Academy of International Visual Arts,
Shanghai) The World 10,000 Miles Away: studying art overseas in a
post-Covid world 10.20-10.45 Panel discussion
- 10.45-11.00 Break -
11.00-12.00 Keynote: Professor Xiang Biao (Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology) Vertical Mediation: Why do we become more divided
when acting together?
PANEL TWO: Going Viral: Covid-19 and Virtual Performance
Chair: Dr. Jenifer Chao, De Montfort University
12.00-12.20 Gao Shiyu (University of Edinburgh) Emerging Technological
Bodies in the Covid-19 Pandemic
12.20-12.40 Ada Hao (University of Brighton) Shared absence: the
awareness of glitch and the challenge of latency in the art of networked
practice.
12.40-13.00 Ying Sun (Birmingham City University) ‘Cloud’ Square
Dancing under the Influence of Covid-19 in China
13.00-13.30 Panel discussion
- 13.30-14.50 Lunch Break -
PANEL THREE: Covid-19, Surveillance and the State
Chair: TBC
14.50-15.10 Cristina Moraru (George Enescu National University of the
Arts, Romania) Art, Life and Labour in Post-Covidism
15.10-15.30 Meiqin Wang (California State University) Pandemic,
Censorship and Grassroots Visual Mobilisation
15.30-16.00 Panel discussion
—
10 November Tuesday
08.45-09.00 Registration and Introduction (Professor Joshua Jiang, CCVA)
PANEL FOUR: Penning a Pandemic: Lockdown Diaries and Post-Coronial
Literature
Chair: Professor David Roberts, Birmingham City University
09.00-09.20 Federico Picerni (Ca’ Foscari University Venice/Heidelberg
University)
Yours the Slogans, Yours the Praise: (self-) narratives in China during
the epidemic.
09.20-09.40 Stephanie Chow (Brown University/Peking University) The
Artist’s Diary: from private diary to collective memory.
09.40-10.00 Yusi Liu (Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum) A Chinese
Covid-19 Romance: feeling and living the virus.
10.00-10.20 Claire Chambers (University of York) Covid’s
Metamorphoses and Post-Coronial Fiction
10.20-10.45 Panel discussion
- 10.45-11.00 Break -
11.00-12.00 Keynote: Dr. Zheng Bo (City University of Hong Kong) The
Soft and Weak are Companions of Life
- 12.00-13.00 Lunch Break -
PANEL FIVE: Covid-19 and Art Activisms
Chair:TBC
13.00-13.20 Xiaoyi Nie (Royal College of Art) Mourning in Demand of
Publicness: Farewell to Li Wenliang as an on-site action and its online
dissemination.
13.20-13.40 Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham) Learn German in my
Kitchen: Queer Diasporic Engagement with the pandemic discourse
13.40-14.00 Laia Anguix (Northumbria University) Street Art in Empty
Streets: The significance of urban art and culture during a pandemic
14.00-14.20 Whiskey Chow (Royal College of Art) The “Queer Blue Sky”:
WHAT CAN ART DO during and beyond the global crisis
14.20-14.50 Panel discussion
14.50-15.00 Closing Remarks and introduction to the Journal of
Contemporary Chinese Art
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Venue: Online zoom meeting with live streaming on Youtube.
- Zoom: Registration is compulsory and limited to 60 places, first come
first served. Please kindly email [email protected] with your
position and affiliation (postgraduate students, emerging and
established scholars all most welcome)
- Youtube live-streaming link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFhISVpn3_iQSeJeU7u8c4Q
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: CCVA 13: The World, Two Metres Away (9-10 Nov 20). In:
ArtHist.net, Oct 17, 2020. <https://arthist.net/archive/23738>.
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