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<nettime-ann> [event] Future Perfect @ Cornell: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Question of the Archive |
Future Perfect: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Question of the Archive Cornell University, Ithaca, New York September, 23-24, 2005. The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series at Cornell University presents an international workshop on art and curating: Future Perfect: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Question of the Archive, September, 23-24, 2005. This event will gather together renown Chinese artists and curators to inaugurate the Cornell Library's Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art, a joint holding of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia and the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art contains some 360 hours of digital video documenting the history of contemporary Chinese art, installation, and performance since 1985. Organized by Thomas Hahn, Curator of the Wason Collection, and Timothy Murray, Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive, the Wen Pulin Archive is a unique international resource of video footage of art events, art performances, installations, and artist studio tours and interviews that traces the history of Chinese culture over this consequential twenty year period. This unique collection, which, due to the sensitive nature of its materials, is restricted in use in China, will provide students and researchers with previously unseen documentation of the important developments in contemporary art in China over the past twenty years, the period of China's tremendous growth into a major venue of contemporary art and global culture. Cornell's acquisition of the Wen Archive marks the first of many planned collaborations with the new Dongtai Academy of Arts in Beijing, which is directed by its founder, Wen Pulin. In addition to providing a preview of these materials, open for the public viewing in the Wason Collection and Goldsen Archive, Kroch Library, the conference provides one of the largest North American gatherings of contemporary Chinese artists and curators who work in the emergent fields of electronic arts, new media, and mixed media performance. Their aim is to situate their past and current projects in terms of the theoretical, social, and political problems posed by new archival challenges of digital culture and historical transformation. Similarly the endeavor of archiving so-called ephemeral artistic works may require a reconsideration of the aims and imperative of the archive itself and related art historical research. To position contemporary Chinese art in the Future Perfect will require that the participants reflect on their former work in relation to future concerns: to consider "what they will have done" (and how it will have been remembered). Highlights of the weekend include the international premiere of a new performance art piece by the artist, Lin Yilin, on Saturday afternoon at 4pm, and a plenary artist presentation by the internationally celebrated artist Xu Bing, on Friday afternoon at 4:30pm. They will be joined by the artists, Feng Mengbo and Chen Lingyang from Beijing, Du Zhenjun from Paris, Xiaowen Chen from Ithaca, Lin Yan from New York as well as curators Barbara London (Museum of Modern Art), Gao Minglu (Pittsburgh), and Shin-Yi Yang (Artist Commune, Hong Kong). Organized by Timothy Murray, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, this event is hosted by The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series with institutional cosponsorship from the Cornell Library, The Society for the Humanities, East Asia Program, College of Art, Architecture and Planning, French Studies, Departments of Asian Studies, English, Comparative Literature. For further information, contact Timothy Murray, Director, The Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, tcm1@cornell.edu, 607-255-4012. _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann