Job opportunity: interim Curator of Asian Art, The Smart Museum, University of Chicago, USA
August 25, 2016
Interim Curator of Asian Art The Smart Museum is currently conducting an international search for a new Director. This full-time interim curatorial position has been created for approximately twelve months beginning as soon as possible and continuing through Fall 2017. The Interim Curator of Asian Art will serve as a coordinating curator for previously planned …
Job opportunity: research curator, Asian collection, GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, Deadline: 25 August 2016
August 10, 2016
The Museum GRASSI – funded by the city of Leipzig (Germany) – has recently announced an open position that might be of interest for German speaking network members. Position: research curator for the Asian collections of its “Angewandte Kunst” (applied arts) museum Deadline for application: 25 August 2016 The employee will receive an income in …
Job opportunity: Research Assistant (full-time), Birmingham, closing date 29 August 2016
August 4, 2016
Network Member Joshua Jiang is looking for a Research Assistant at Birmingham City University, UK: We are looking to appoint an experienced and bilingual (English and Chinese) Research Assistant in the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University. You will join the CCVA to: – Assist the development of research activities at …
Explore useful (bibliographical) resources – other suggestions welcome!
July 19, 2016
Network members have helped to compile a list of bibliographical resources that support research on modern and contemporary Chinese art and are accessible online and can be used with long distance loan services. Please help to enlarge the list by sending your suggestions to the webmaster. To be up-dated continuously: Arts of China Consortium (Columbia …
Explore interesting book series and publishing houses
Members of the network have already published in the following book series and publishing houses which have a pronounced profile in research of modern and contemporary Chinese art. The webmaster welcomes further entries in this open list of resources. To be up-dated continuously: Brill Publishers, Leiden (see the “Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture” series …
Publications and journal resources
The networks members frequently publish across a wide range of media and formats. Academic journals that are of particular interest to the growing field and its various discussions are: The Journal for Contemporary Chinese Art (current editor-in-chief: Joshua Jiang) Yishu. Journal for Contemporary Chinese Art (current editor-in-chief: Keith Wallace) Members can announce their monographs and …
The network’s themes and working groups
The initiators of the network envisioned it as an informal, but active umbrella organisation that will trigger smaller collaborative research initiatives hopefully based on various European or other international funding schemes. For this purpose the network encourages the formation of working groups based on shared thematic and institutional aims. News about such themes and working …
Relations with other relevant networks and projects
Members of the network take an interest or are actively participating in the following other networks and projects (to be up-dated continuously) that you can easily explore following the posted links: UKChinaArts, Birkbeck College London Chinese Contemporary Research Network Manchester Culture, Capital and Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century, Manchester School of Art …
Institutional affiliations
The network is informally related to a broad range of academic institutions and (online) academic platforms around the world through the institutional affiliation of its members. These vary in accordance with the stage of the scholarly career of each member – from graduate student to chair of department or director of a museum/collection. Consequently, the …
The network’s founding committee and members
The following scholars constitute the founding committee which supported the launch of the network (chaired by Franziska Koch) and discussed its initial set-up at the international symposium “(In-)direct speech. ‘Chineseness’ in contemporary art discourse and practice. Art market, curatorial practices and creative processes” at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal, March 19, …
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