Guest: Shen Xin, Zhang Ga
Date: 2015-03-29 14:00 ~ 2015-03-29 15:30
Address: Chronus Art Center (Bldg 18, No.50 Moganshan Rd., Shanghai)
Language: Chinese(with English subtitles)
This event is free of charge. Reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org(please send your full name, contact information, and the number of places to reserve).
About The Event:
As the recipient of CAC fellowship for Chinese artist 2015, Shen Xin will be giving a talk on her research and proposed project, and will take part in a conversation with Zhang Ga on the coming residency that is to commence at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and Centre for Chinese Visual Arts.
Shen’s proposal and research focus on her interests in immaterial labour in relation to animation and the productivity of digitalization in set ups like symposiums, conferences, which she would organize and invite practitioners in the field of theory, art, politics, etc. to partake. This talk will serve as an introduction both in its form and content, to various points of interests of Shen’s project “Flattened Metaphysics (working title)”, laying out aspects of the forthcoming working process and conceptual concerns. She will focus on the position of public intellectuals, and will attempt to draw out her blueprints in the structures situated within the gaps of speech and action, thinking and battling, critiquing and receiving, concerning meta-political environments.
She will also give an introduction to her practice in relation to this residency, which is foregrounded by moving image, and also encompasses virtual realities and figures, public proposal, communication interfaces, self-publication, and tourist attraction.
About the Speakers:
Shen Xin (1990, CN) lives and works in UK and China. Having completed her MFA in Slade School of Fine Arts in 2014, Shen was selected for the touring exhibitions of Bloomberg New Contemporaries at World Museum in Liverpool, ICA in London, and Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall. Shen has curated the Artists’ Film Club program Unorthodox Hosts at ICA, London in 2014, as well as been selected as MAstar for Axis Web by Kirsty Ogg. Selected group shows include 18th Japanese Media Art Festival, Tokyo; Does Not Equal at W139, Amsterdam, Bloomberg New Contemporaries at World Museum, Liverpool Biennial, and at ICA, London; 21st Century Screening at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Chinese Visual Festival at King’s College, London.
ZHANG Ga is a media art curator, professor at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University and Artistic Director/Curator of International Triennial of New Media Art 2008, 2011, 2014 (National Art Musuem of China); He is also on the editorial board of The Leonardo Books (MIT Press).
About CAC Fellowship for Chinese Artist:
This Fellowship has been created by the School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), Birmingham City University in conjunction with the Chronus Art Center (CAC) in Shanghai. The Fellowship offers an exciting opportunity for an artist at the commencement of or at a critical point in their professional career, to further develop his or her practice particularly in relation to Chinese art and culture. The Fellowship will be based in the School of Art. The successful applicant will be expected to become a full and active member of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) and research community within the School.
This Fellowship is designed particularly for Chinese national students and graduates based either in China or in the UK. The successful applicant is to hold a postgraduate degree in Fine Art or a related subject and able to communicate in fluent English orally as well as in writing. The duration is normally, for 6 calendar months commencing in April 2015 .The Fellowship will normally conclude with an exhibition of work produced during the Fellowship as a CAC Fellowship section within the BIAD MA Fine Art show.
