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2019 年是上海与利物浦建交成为姐妹城市的 20 周年。
伯明翰城市大学中国视觉艺术中心第 12 届年会将与利物浦泰特美术馆联手举办。
本届学术年会的主题为：
“中国城市化变迁与当代艺术”
近几十年来，中国经历了革命性的城市化变迁。不断的变化塑造了一种移动的现实，几乎是虚幻的，超越了常规的生活日常。当今城市化的快速发展是一个全球性的问题，然而中国城市发展仅是一个独特的例子，充满了激情与兴奋的同时也带来了某种焦虑。历史已成为历史，记忆正在不断被重造。我们如何通过社会学、人类学、文化研究和艺术视角重新审视经济成就和城市发展的利与弊？艺术家又是如何捕捉、思考和阐释这个主题，进行批判性的回应，并想象在中国独有的近乎超现实的日常体验？
本次研讨会希望围绕此主题邀请来自世界各地的学者和艺术家作出学术或策展实践上的回应与分享他们的研究成果。
以下为年会的英文征稿启事原文：
Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China
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 toccva@bcu.ac.uk, with a subject titled ‘12th CCVA Annual Conference’. Any general queries should also be directed to ccva@bcu.ac.uk. 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.
请有兴趣参加年会发言的学者或艺术家在 2019 年 2 月 1 日前提交 300 字的摘要以及 100 字的个人简介到本中心的邮箱：ccva@bcu.ac.uk。
