Toward A New Age of Asian Art

Association of Art Historians 33rd Annual Conference:

CONTESTATIONS

12-14 April 2007
University of Ulster, Belfast

CALL FOR PAPERS

Having been dominant in the global economy in the twenty-first century, the
Asia Pacific region has attracted the world’s attention on its contemporary
artistic presentation. In the past twenty years, many cities in the Asia
Pacific region have been at the centre of both economic growth and cultural
re-examination. Globalisation has brought the Asian metropolis to
deconstruct its own cultural heritage and urbanisation has created an urgent
question to its people to re-consider development, competition, modernised
cultures and values.

In recent years, there have been several biennales and triennials held in
the Asia Pacific region, including the Busan Biennale, Fukuoka Triennial,
Guangzhou Triennial, Gwangju Biennale, Hong Kong Art Biennale, Shanghai
Biennale, Singapore Biennale, Taipei Biennale, Triennial of Chinese
Contemporary Art etc, which have created kinds of phenomena which
specifically appeared in this region. During these exhibitions, the artists
have often combined their own cultural languages with high technology,
re-interpreted their traditional aesthetics and re-defined their traditional
materials, by which they have declared their national identity and
represented their post-colonial discourse.

This session encourages papers that focus on, but are not limited to, the
questions: How have the curators’ strategies helped contemporary Asian art
to be understood and which concepts have been revealed and discussed? How
do the artists hybridise their artistic language within a modern ideology?
How have the appearances of new contemporary Asian art been created? How do
the artists and curators find the balance between nationalism and
globalisation?

This session invites art historians, artists, theorists, cultural and media
analysts to submit an abstract in English (250 words maximum) with your
name, organisation affiliation (if any), contact details, and a short CV by
10th Nov 2006.

Email materials or enquiries to Session Organiser: Ming-Hui Chen,
Loughborough University School of Art and Design, UK m.chen3lboro.ac.uk

More details about the conference can be found at: http://www.aah.org.uk/