Description
Studies of Chinese art history, which primarily focus on stylistic analysis, increasingly draw influence from other disciplines, thus creating new perspectives, including exhibition history. This presentation will start with a summary of the edited volume, Exhibiting Chinese Art in Asia: Histories, Politics, and Practices (2025). This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex of Chinese art in early twentieth-century China and, from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Asia, and the curatorial practices amidst the advance of media technology and heritage engagement in the twenty-first century. Situated within global art history, the study is inclusive of multiple geo-cultural perspectives, and the dynamic practices that relate Chinese art heritage to more universal spatiotemporal art experiences and engagement. It extends the understanding of exhibitions of Chinese art not only as multiple historical processes culturally and politically negotiated and contested by contending forces and diverse actors in the region but also as creative interventions to engage people around the globe in the present. In discussion with creative intervention, Prof. Ho will explain the conceptual framework of "creative heritage" and how it contributes to the curatorial engagement of traditional Chinese art in Hong Kong.| Period | 10 Apr 2026 |
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| Held at | Centre for Film and Creative Industries |
| Degree of Recognition | International |