Conference: “Making the New World: the Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution”, 11-12 Nov 2016, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
September 19, 2016
Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, Making the New World: the Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution, is a two-day international conference programmed by the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery. Inviting researchers, artists, designers, curators and practitioners at all stages of their careers worldwide to reassess …
Conference “Ecologies of Art”, 23-24 Sept. 2016, SOAS, London, UK
‘Ecologies of Art’ is a two-day conference intended to accelerate multi-vocal discussions on developments in modern and contemporary art in China in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. It is held in conjunction with Hong Ling: A Retrospective in the Brunei Gallery at SOAS (14th July–24th September 2016; admission free), an exhibition occasioned by the retirement …
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 kick-off symposium “(In-)direct speech. ‘Chineseness’ in contemporary art discourse and practice”
The International Research Network for Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art was launched March 19, 2015 in connection with 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, organized and conceptualized by Franziska Koch (Heidelberg University) …
Welcome to the International Research Network for Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art (ReNet MoCoCA)
July 18, 2016
About the network The International Research Network for Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art (ReNet MoCoCA) – launched in March 2015 – is conceived to address the needs of the growing, divers, and globally scattered academic community in this field. It helps to bridge communicational and informational gaps that result from local institutional confines of projects, …
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