The international symposium “Archival Turn: East Asian Contemporary Art and Taiwan (1960-1989),” will be held from April 8 to 9, 2017, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Spring Foundation. The seminar will take place in the museum’s auditorium. Over 20 scholars will engage in discussion and dialogue on the theme of “the Archival Turn: East Asian art history and contemporaneity.”
In the context of globalization, countries throughout East Asia have established art archives in recent years, to promote the establishment, translation and curation of the basic textual and audio-visual information about their own countries and Asia as a whole. At the same time, thanks to the Internet, contemporary artists are now better able to access and apply audio-visual archives, furthering this trend of re-exploring history. Archives are the habitation of memory. The re-archiving of history in contemporary art suggests that modernity in East Asian art history is not simply a singular narrative of progress toward enlightenment, but the ghosts of history reverberating along the island chain, driven by the force of archives. Here, archives no longer serve as mere empirical data used to construct linear history; they are redrawing the mental map of our collective memory. The establishment and recalibration of archives herald an overturning of the genealogy of East Asian art in its historical imagination and its writing. This is the active meaning of an “archival turn.”
2017 International Symposium
Archival Turn: East Asian Contemporary Art and Taiwan (1960-1989)
Organized by｜Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Spring Foundation
Venue｜Auditorium, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Date｜April 8 (Sat.) – April 9 (Sun.), 2017
* Free entry for this event. No ticket or reservations required.
Speakers
Julia F. ANDREWS
Professor, Department of History of Art, Ohio State University
Po-Shin CHIANG
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Institute of Art History and Art Criticism, Tainan National University of the Arts
John CLARK
Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of Sydney
Jane DEBEVOISE
Chair of the Board of Directors, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong and New York
FEI Dawei
Rotating Director of Academic Committee, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Patrick D. FLORES
Professor, Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines
Yuk HUI
Research Associate, Leuphana University, Germany
INABA (Fujimura) Mai
Assistant Professor, Kwangwoon University, Korea
Hee-Young KIM
Professor, Department of Fine Art, College of Arts, Kookmin University, Korea
Sunjung KIM
Director, Art Sonje Center.
Artistic Director, ACC Archive & Research in Asian Culture Center, Gwangju (2014-15)
KURODA Raiji
Chief Curator, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Yi-ting LEI
Assistant Researcher, Curator, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Lesley MA
Curator, Ink Art, M+, Hong Kong
Yu Jin SENG
Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore
Kuiyi SHEN
Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Song-Yong SING
Professor, the Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art, Tainan National University of the Arts
Simon SOON
Art Historian and Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya
SUZUKI Katsuo
Curator, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Clare VEAL
Lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
WU Mali
Associate Professor of Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University
Anthony YUNG
Senior researcher, Asia Art Archive
Moderators
Catherine Tsai-yun CHAN
Senior Researcher, Chief of Research Department, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Hsiangling LAI
Board Director, Spring Foundation
Dean-E MEI
Professor, Graduate School of Printmaking, National Taiwan University of Arts
