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NSE #655 | Yanhua Zhou, Jiao Xingtao, and Paul Gladston, with Jen Soong
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Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China and the Legacies of Socialist Realism
Art historian Yanhua Zhou and sculptor Jiao Xingtao join Rail contributor Paul Gladston for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Jen Soong.
the-new-social-environment #655
Recorded on Monday, September 26, 2022 at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. Pacific
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In this talk:
🚩 Jiao Xingtao —— Contemporary artist Jiao Xingtao is also the professor and vice-president of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing. Since 2018 he has been leading various socially engaged rural art projects in Southwest China, including Qitang Experimental Field and Lotus Hole: Chongqing Village Art Festival. His most recent work as an artist is conceptual, a comment on the consumerist excesses of today’s society. He transforms objects—often packaging, such as a discarded Hermès box—with scale and fibre glass to make pieces of statement art.
🚩 Paul Gladston —— Award-winning critical theorist and cultural historian Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales and a distinguished affiliate of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University. He is an inaugural co-editor of the book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, est. 2019) and was founding principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect, est. 2014). He recently co-edited the collected edition Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and is author of the monograph, Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and on this day we were fortunate to have Jen Soong:
🚩 Jen Soong —— The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Jen Soong grew up in New Jersey and now resides in northern California. An alum of Tin House and VONA, her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Audacity, Jellyfish Review, Cosmonauts Avenue and Waxwing. She received her MFA in creative writing from UC Davis. Her memoir-in-progress is a reckoning of myth, migration and memory.
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We'd like to thank the The Terra Foundation for making our daily conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive.
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This conversation was produced by THE BROOKLYN RAIL:
Art historian Yanhua Zhou and sculptor Jiao Xingtao join Rail contributor Paul Gladston for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Jen Soong.
the-new-social-environment #655
Recorded on Monday, September 26, 2022 at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. Pacific
〰️〰️〰️〰️
In this talk:
🚩 Jiao Xingtao —— Contemporary artist Jiao Xingtao is also the professor and vice-president of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing. Since 2018 he has been leading various socially engaged rural art projects in Southwest China, including Qitang Experimental Field and Lotus Hole: Chongqing Village Art Festival. His most recent work as an artist is conceptual, a comment on the consumerist excesses of today’s society. He transforms objects—often packaging, such as a discarded Hermès box—with scale and fibre glass to make pieces of statement art.
🚩 Paul Gladston —— Award-winning critical theorist and cultural historian Paul Gladston is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales and a distinguished affiliate of the UK-China Humanities Alliance, Tsinghua University. He is an inaugural co-editor of the book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, est. 2019) and was founding principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect, est. 2014). He recently co-edited the collected edition Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and is author of the monograph, Contemporary Chinese Art, Aesthetic Modernity and Zhang Peili: Towards a Critical Contemporaneity (Bloomsbury, 2019).
〰️〰️〰️〰️
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and on this day we were fortunate to have Jen Soong:
🚩 Jen Soong —— The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Jen Soong grew up in New Jersey and now resides in northern California. An alum of Tin House and VONA, her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Audacity, Jellyfish Review, Cosmonauts Avenue and Waxwing. She received her MFA in creative writing from UC Davis. Her memoir-in-progress is a reckoning of myth, migration and memory.
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We'd like to thank the The Terra Foundation for making our daily conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive.
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This conversation was produced by THE BROOKLYN RAIL:
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