UCCA Beijing

An Era without Memory: the Chinese Photobook and Urban Transformation

2015.5.14
14:00-16:00

对话
Location:  UCCA Auditorium
Language:  Chinese only

Continuing until the end of May, “The Chinese Photobook” includes rare photobooks made abroad and domestically. Through the pictures we can see the contradictions, changes, developments, and innovations in the history of modern China.

Many artists/photographers featured in this exhibition are responding to the extensive urban reconstruction and population explosion that have resulted in the destruction of historical sections of Beijing. In this discussion we will hear from some of the artists whose efforts have preserved at least a vague memory of Beijing’s past.

Ticketing & Participation: Free。

Note

*Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins.

* Please no late entry.

Speakers

Zhuang Hui

Zhuang Hui is currently based in Beijing. His solo exhibitions include “Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition Project” (OCAT, Xi’An, 2015) and “Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition (Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, 2014).

Wang Chuan

A native of Beijing born in 1967, Wang Chuan’s significant exhibitions include “Fleeting Time—Solo Exhibition” (Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, 2014) and the group show “Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China“ (Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2014).

Muchen

A graduate of Renmin University, Muchen (b. 1970, Dandong) is currently based in Beijing. His exhibitions include “A Splendid Web from Heaven to Earth: Shao Yinong & Muchen”, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, 2014.

Moderator

Jiang Jiehong

Dr. Jiang Jiehong is Professor of Chinese Art at Birmingham City University. His recent curatorial projects include “Harmonious Society: Third Asia Triennial Manchester” (2014); “The Unseen: Fourth Guangzhou Triennial” (2012); “Guanxi” (Guangdong Art Museum and Today Art Museum, 2011); and “A Decade Long Exposure: Contemporary Photography in China” (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2010). He is the editor of Burden or Legacy: from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Contemporary Art (Hong Kong University Press, 2007) and has penned several of his own works, including The Revolution Continues: New Art from China (Saatchi Gallery and Random House, 2008); Red: China’s Cultural Revolution (Random House, Jonathan Cape, 2010); and An Era without Memory: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban Transformation (Thames and Hudson, 2015).

Partner

Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson was founded in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath. Their passion and mission for T&H was that its books should reveal the world of art to the general public, to create a “museum without walls” and to make accessible to a broad, non-specialist reading public, at prices it could afford, the research and the findings of top scholars and academics. To capture the essence of this international concept, the name for the company linked the rivers flowing through London and New York (although Walter later admitted he could have chosen at least six other rivers for the name!).