Symposium

Activity and Repose: Place, Memory, and Sociality in Chinese and
Japanese Gardens

Friday, December 3, 2004
The Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium

Saturday, December 4, 2004
The Huntington, Friends' Hall

Reservations:
skrasnoohuntington.org
or (626) 405-3432

Schedule

A collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and the Huntington
Library, Art Collections and Gardens, this symposium focuses on how the
garden in China and Japan functions as a nexus of creative individual and
social energy. A garden site is a combination of inherent natural features
and the obligations of culture, and memory plays a crucial role in the
garden experience. Of interest to symposium participants will be how the
garden serves as a site of cultural production (poetry, painting, the
erotic, etc.), and the extent to which social relations, from the intimate
to the commercial, are key to understanding both physical layout and
habits of use.

DAY ONE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

The Getty Center
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
www.getty.edu <http://www.getty.edu>

8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee

9:15 a.m.

Welcome by Gail Feigenbaum, Associate Director, Getty Research Institute

Remarks by Stephen H. West, Arizona State University

9:30 a.m. Session 1: Movement and Memory in Traditional Gardens

Moderator: Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks

Movement and Perception in Ming Gardens
Stanislaus Fung, University of New South Wales

The Changing Self in the Shifting Landscape
Peter Bol, Harvard University

Discussion

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30 p.m. Session 2: Cultural Memory in the Modern Garden

Moderator: Erik de Jong, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the
Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

The Eight Scenes of the Yuelu Academy: The Living Embodiment of a
Collective Memory in Gardens and Landscapes
Xin Wu, Dumbarton Oaks

The Ryoaniji Stone Garden: Constructing an Icon
Kendall Brown, California State University, Long Beach

Discussion

3:30 p.m. Session 3: Enduring Memory and Sociality: Public Gardens

Moderator: Stephen H. West

Public and Private: Chinese Temples as Gardens
Susan Naquin, Princeton University

The "Public" Garden in Early Modern Japan: The Sources and Costs of
"Enduring Meanings"
Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley

Discussion

DAY TWO: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4

Friends' Hall, The Huntington

8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee

9:30 a.m.

Welcome by Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington

Remarks by Stephen H. West, Arizona State University

9:45 a.m. Session 4: Productive Space: Gardens and the Arts

Moderator: Erik de Jong

Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion: From Poetry and Calligraphy to a
Landscape of Cultural Memory
Philip Hu, Macalester College

Tonna's Trees: The Poetics of Garden Space in Medieval Japan
Steven Carter, Stanford University

Discussion

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. Session 5: Social Activity and the Construction of Memory

Moderator: Michel Conan

Japan Contemplates the Dry Landscape, Socializes while Having Tea
Christian Tschumi, Dumbarton Oaks

The Suburban Retreat and the Globalization of the Chinese Garden
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University

Discussion

3:00 p.m. Session 6: Ephemeral and Enduring: The Paradox of Collecting

Moderator: Richard Strassberg, University of California, Los Angeles

Louis XIV and the Kangsi Emperor: Collecting and Gardening
Haun Saussy, Stanford University

Remembering Li Deyu Remembering His Pingquan Garden
Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame

Discussion

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Admission to this symposium is free, but separate reservations are
required for each day.

Make your Getty reservation online
<http://www.getty.edu/visit/calendar/reservations/5664.html> or call
(310) 440-7300. Parking at the Getty is $7.00 per car.

For Huntington reservations, email skrasnoohuntington.org
<mailto:skrasnoohuntington.org> or call (626) 405-3432.

<http://www.getty.edu>

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Symposium Organizers

The Getty Research Institute
Thomas Crow
Gail Feigenbaum
Charles Salas
Karen Stokes
Donna Beckage

The Huntington
Robert Ritchie
Stephen West
Carolyn Powell
Susi Krasnoo

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