Session 1:
10:00 Opening remarks by curator Fan Di＊an (Director National Art Museum of China)
10:10-10:20 Remarks by co-curator Huang Du
10:20 每 10:50 Presentation 1: Zhu Qingsheng
10:50 每 11:20 Presentation 2: Lisa Corrin
11:20 每 12:45 Roundtable and open discussion
Session 2:
14:30 每 15:00 Presentation 3: Lu Peng
15:00 每 15:30 Presentation 4: Chia Chi Wang
15:30 每 17:00 Roundtable and open discussion
17:00 每 17:30 Closing remarks and summary
1. About Presentations:
The conference is composed of four presenters who will speak for 30 minutes. Their presentations will serve as a basis for the discussion during the round table discussions.
2. Round Table Discussion:
The moderators of the conference have invited curators and scholars for the round table discussion to respond to and draw out particular discussion topics from the presentations. The discussions are moderated and will open up the discussion to general audiences as well.
3. Open Discussion:
Participants will be invited by the moderator to give different views and perspectives regarding the presentations.
※Sculptural§ Intervention Conference Text
Contemporary art has increasingly opened up the divisions between different mediums of artistic production, as well as art and reality, creating meaningful interactions across disciplines. The processes of conflict and merging between the multiplicities of cultural forms in a globalized context express a mutual intervention across layers.
The artistic practice of Zhan Wang, from his early work as a sculptor, to his investigations of technique and concept and experimentation with installation, performance, video and other mediums have contributed to the formulation of a languge of ※conceptual sculpture§, finding its most recognizable expression in his stainless steel series of ※Artificial Rocks.§ These works continually challenged and subverted the traditional concept of sculpture, straddling the language between sculpture and installation art. Zhan Wang has built upon the series of stainless steel works, including a series of projects such as ※Inlay the Great Wall§, ※12 Nautical Miles§, ※Mt. Everest§, and ※New Plan to Fill the Sky§, the expansion into a greater material space also extending the concept of public space. Different from contemporary artists who either completely reject tradition or draw upon and appropriate tradition, Zhan Wang has intervened and inverted the possibilities for tradition to act as a system of reference, thereby also intervening and affecting the future through the transformation of the contemporary.
On the occasion of Zhan Wang＊s solo exhibition ※Garden Utopia§ at the National Art Museum of China, artists, curators, critics and practitioners will engage in an open discussion on the relationship between traditional sculpture and contemporary art; ※sculpture§, installation and conceptual art; and questions of the public and social nature of contemporary art raised by Buey＊s ※social sculpture§ and the idea of ※intervention§, to articulate new possibilities and definitions for ※sculpture§ as a medium that informs and engages other material explorations of the social condition.
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