Centre for Chinese Visual Arts

The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts will be participating in this event tomorrow at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Please do check out the programme and circulate among those who may be interested.

CHINESE WOMEN AND CONTEMPORARY ART: ROUND TABLE | Ashmolean Museum Celebrate International Women's Day with a round table discussion exploring aspects of contemporary Chinese womens' art.

The 12th CCVA annual conference is now bookable on Tate's website. This year's conference will be a collaboration between CCVA and Tate Liverpool.

Call for papers: For Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China – Conference at Tate Liverpool | Tate Join us for this two-day event exploring the signifance of the urban transformations in China

CFP for the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 7.1: Biennials, Triennials in China.

Timeline

1 June 2019, abstracts due (300 words)
30 September 2019, full manuscripts due (6–7,000 words)
Publication in Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 2020

Looking forward to receiving your abstracts.

Intellect Books Journal of Contemporary Chinese ArtVolume 7, Issue 1, Spring 2020Special Issue: Biennials, Triennials in ChinaToday, biennials and triennials have become one of the most significant phenomena in globalised art world. In 1996, the Shanghai Biennale appeared as the very first art biennial in Mainland....

Call for papers: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Special Issue: Biennials, Triennials in China

1 June 2019, abstracts due (300 words)

More info >>http://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/39973/1/JCCA_CFP_jan19_Biennials_Triennials_in_China.pdf

AHRC International Placement Scheme 2019

This year will provide the largest number of opportunities to date, with the inclusion of a 8th Host there are now 71 placements available across the eight world-leading, international institutions. Including Shanghai Theatre Academy.

The annual scheme, now in its 15th year, provides funded research fellowships at world-leading international research institutions for early career researchers, doctoral-level research assistants and AHRC/ESRC* funded doctoral students.

For the first time, this year the scheme will include placements at the National Museum Institute in New Delhi, alongside institutions from the USA, Japan and China. Placements to the National Museum Institute are available for 2019-2020 as a one year pilot in the first instance.

Deadlines coming next week, for more information:

https://ahrc.ukri.org/…/international-placement-scheme-2019/

During her time as post-doctoral researcher with Tate Research Centre: Asia in 2013–14, CCVA's Research Associate, Dr Monica Merlin conducted a series of interviews with Chinese women artists. Building on her extensive background in Chinese art history, Monica’s current research focuses on contemporary Chinese art and visual culture, with a special interest in the practice of women artists in mainland China, and gender as a method for art history. We are proud to publish a number of these interviews here, and will be adding further interviews over the coming weeks.

Women Artists in Contemporary China | Tate Series of interviews with Chinese women artists conducted by Monica Merlin, post-doctoral researcher at Tate Research Centre: Asia 2013–14

Few more days left to submit your abstracts to our annual conference.
This year, our conference will be held at Tate Liverpool.
Looking forward to hearing from you. - CCVA team.

Call for Papers: Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China 2019 - Everyday Legend Call for Papers Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool Date: 11-12 November 2019 Venue: Auditorium, Tate …

For your information.

The deadline for a full manuscript submission for Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 6.2&3 (Autumn 2019) 'Everyday Legend: Reinventing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art' is fast approaching!

1 February 2019 is the final submission date.

(Apologies to anyone who received our January Visual Arts Newsletter this week as the date that appears on that for this CFP is incorrect).

Please click on this link for the full CFPhttps://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/cfp_chinese%20art_6_2&3(Feb18).pdf

Recently students from MA Contemporary Arts China visited Liverpool. Here is a coverage of their visit. Tate Liverpool is a partner of the School of Art, Birmingham City University, as well as our MA course Contemporary Arts China, where students enjoy an opportunity to have an internship and hands on experience with the leading contemporary art organisation.

Trips to Tate - Birmingham School of Art | Birmingham City University Students across undergraduate and postgraduate courses have the opportunity to visit Tate Liverpool to gain a first-hand insight in the exhibitions and the institution.

Call for Papers.

Call for Papers:
THE 12TH CCVA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China
Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool

Date: 11-12 November 2019
Venue: Auditorium, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool L3 4BB
Abstract Submission deadline: 1 February 2019

The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices and theoretical studies.

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Shanghai-Liverpool twinning cities in 2019, we are now convening the 12th CCVA Annual Conference in collaboration with Tate Liverpool. This two-day event invites researchers, curators, artists, designers and architects in the fields of art, design, visual culture and urban studies at all stages of their careers worldwide to reassess the significance of the urban transformations in China, and to reflect upon their impacts on everyday experience and artistic and curatorial practices in the globalised world.

In the recent decades, China has experienced a revolutionary urban development. The incessant changes have shaped a moving reality, almost illusive, beyond the normal and tangible environment of daily life. The rapidity of today’s urbanisation is a global issue, and yet the example of contemporary cities in China is singular, filled with excitement and anxiety. Histories have been destroyed, and heritage and memories are being reinvented for the future. How do we re-examine the triumph of the economic achievement and the urban development, or the loss, through sociological, anthropological, cultural and artistic perspectives? For those insiders – artists who are living through the accelerated development and its disturbance, how to capture and interpret the transient, to respond critically to such an urban existence, and to imagine a unique or almost surreal experience in China?

We encourage papers from a variety of subject areas to develop interdisciplinary perspectives and new understandings on the development of Chinese contemporary art in the context of social, cultural and urban transformations. The following set of areas is indicative, as examples, but not limited to the discussions:

· Art and urban transformations
· Art and its ecology in urbanised China
· Art production, dissemination, participation and reception in public realm
· Collective and private spaces: squares, streets and residences
· Artists and lives at the edge of cities
· Art districts: audience and tourists
· Art and migration
· Urban development and cultural identities
· Biennials and art fairs

Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words, a 100-word biography, contact information and any institutional affiliations, by 1 February 2019 to [email protected], with a subject titled ‘12th CCVA Annual Conference’. Any general queries should also be directed to [email protected]. Conference presentations should last no more than 20 minutes. Successful proposals for conference contributions will be notified by the end of February 2019. Invited full papers should be submitted by 31 January 2020, to be featured in Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect) as a special issue in autumn of the year.

Are you interested in doing a funded PhD with CCVA? Here is an opportunity to apply for M4Cities scholarship, funded by the ARHC. You will be able to undertake a research project on "Making art part of everyday life: The influence of Asian art on UK curatorial practice” in partnership with Birmingham's Ikon gallery.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/doctoral-routes/doctoral-routes.aspx

or email [email protected]

Doctoral routes The routes to study for M4C students.

Read about our recent curatorial project, the first Thailand Biennale here: http://www.biennialfoundation.org/2018/11/the-first-thailand-biennale-edge-of-the-wonderland/ | CCVA director has been appointed as the lead curator for the Biennale.

The First Thailand Biennale 'Edge of the Wonderland' - Biennial Foundation Opening Ceremony November 2, 2018 Professional private view December 20-21, 2018 Catalogue launch December 22, 2018 This year, as the foremost international event of contemporary art for the county, Office ... Read More