Yishu‘s Editor-in-Chief Keith Wallace is going to host “Writing Across Cultures,” a meeting which is part of Asia Art Archive’s community programme, entitled “Open Platform.” It is going to take place at Art Basel Hong Kong, on May 23rd, Thursday, 4-5:30pm.
Writing Across Cultures
A discussion about some of the differences and challenges that writers and publishers are facing when working with different languages, readers, discourses, and distribution targets.
Moderator:
Keith Wallace, Editor-in-Chief, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Participants:
Chia Chi Jason Wang, Taiwan, Juror of the 2012 Yishu Award
Yu-Ling Chou, 2012 Yishu Award recipient
Carol Yinghua Lu, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Yishu (Chinese Version)
Christina Yu Yu, Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
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About Open Platform
Open Platform is an extension of Asia Art Archive’s endeavour to enable new thinking in the field. Following an open call, selected cultural practitioners will use the Archive’s network to host meetings in AAA’s booth at Art Basel in Hong Kong. These “meetings without doors” will be a place for the hosts to further their ongoing projects, catalyse new ones, or simply be an opportunity to make connections.
Meetings (and their hosts) include:
A Generation: Cross-Cultural Connections | Zoë Marden & Julia Marchand
Art Ecology and Education | Ting Wing Yan Vivian & Emma Watts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Artistic Research in the Economies of “Post-“ | Elaine W Ho
Asian Art Worlds/Western Gatekeepers | Jonathan Harris, University of Southampton
Collaboration as Method | Jane DeBevoise, Asia Art Archive
Comparative Contemporaries | Lee Weng Choy
Contemporary Reframing of Ink | Britta Erickson
Institutional Change in Post-2000 Asia | Menene Gras, Casa Asia
Mapping Asia | Claire Hsu & Chantal Wong, Asia Art Archive
Meet the Parents | Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng, C&G Artpartment
The Gallerist Programme | Ann Demeester, De Appel Arts Centre
Vernacular Art Education in Asia | Sophia McKinnon
Writing Across Cultures | Keith Wallace, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
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When May 23 – 26, 2013
Where Booth P1, Hong Kong edition of Art Basel, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
In conjunction with the Hong Kong edition of Art Basel.
Booth supported by Elaine and Anto Marden
Design Partners: Art Lab x Milkxhake
Mapping Asia supported by Mondriaan Foundation
For more info, visit: http://www.aaa.org.hk/Programme/Details/421
