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New Moves: Chinese Arts Conference
Language, Identity and New Technologies
Place*Body*Script: Contemporary Views on Henry Moore
Modern Iran and the Castles of the Assassins
Religion, the Arts and Spirituality
Mutualities: Britain and Islam
UNESCO Mediterranean Forum meets in Sicily
New Moves: Chinese Arts Conference
A conference exploring the issues related to the work of Chinese artists based in the West will take place on Saturday, 18 December 1999, at the Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum London, 10.30 am to 5 pm.
Speakers announced so far include Hou Hanru (as the keynote speaker), Mee Ling Ng (chair); actor David Yip; artist Erika Tan; Paul Courtneay Hyu, from the Mulan Theatre; dancer Tina Chen; artist Kwong Lee; designer Jimmy Choo; Andy Gunn from the British Chinese Artists Association; Susie Wong from the Chinese Cultural Centre; Graham Chan, editor of Brushstrokes magazine, Liverpool; Christine Chin from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Huttson Lo from the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester.
In a panel on Creating Partnerships and New Opportunities, the speakers will include Naseem Khan, from the Arts Council of England; Gilane Tawadros, from inIVA; Paula Brown from the London Arts Board; Bryan Biggs from the Bluecoat Arts Centre; Bill Gee from the Canary Wharf Arts and Events; and Michelle Brown from the Bath Museum of East Asian Art.
Admisstion to the conference at the V&A is free but those wishing to take part should contact, as soon as possible, artist Grace Lau on telephone 0171 435 8308 or email or the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, on telephone 0161 832 7271 or email .
Related links
- 101 Diasporas: Artists of Chinese Descent in Britain , an Eastern Art Report project.
- Distances, Dissonance and Diversity--The Art of Chinese Artists in Britain by Sajid Rizvi
- A Bridge of Vermilion--Chinese Art in Tradition, Transition and Diaspora by Sajid Rizvi
- Cities on the Move: Urban Chaos and Global Change
- Accessibility and Relevance--The Art of Ye Yong Qing by Juillia Kuo and Sharon Cheah
- Index to Back Issues
Language, Identity and New Technologies
A conference exploring the issues of Language, Identity and New Technologies was held at the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1, on Saturday 7 November 1998. For details, click here for ArtByte. Top of the Page
PDF Study Days
The Percival David Foundation held a two-day study course on its collections, organised in association with Christie's and scheduled for 18 -19 November 1998.
The PDF says in a notice sent to EAR the course represents "a unique opportunity to study the collection at first hand." The course was taught by Rosemary Scott, Senior Academic Consultant, and Stacey Pierson, Curator of the Foundation.
The foundation's collection includes important examples from various dynasty periods, including Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing ceramics, Ding and Jun wares, celadons, blue and white porcelain and Qing enamelled wares.
Proceeds from the course, which costs 250.00 pounds per day, go towards refurbishing the Lady David Gallery at the foundation premises. Contact for further information: Stacey Pierson, PDF Curator, on +44-[0]171-387 3909 (voice) or +44-[0]171-383 5163 (facsimile). Top of the Page
Place * Body * Script
Place * Body * Script: Contemporary Views on Henry Moore was the title of a symposium which took place at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of Anglia, Norwich, from 4 to 6 December, 1998.
Organised as a contribution to Moore's centenary year, the symposium brought together specialists on Moore with artists, curators, scholars and students of visual culture from other disciplines to put Moore in a broad historical and interpretative context. Details from Dr Jonathan Meuli, School of World Art, telephone 01603 295593.
Modern Iran and the Castles of the Assassins
The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers held a lecture by Peter Willey, Modern Iran and the Castles of the Assassins, on 20 January 1999, at the Salisbury Museum Lecture Hall, the King's House, The Close, Salibury.
The lecture drew on Peter Willey's experience over three decades locating and describing the castles built by the 'Assassins' in the 11th to 13th centuries in Iran. Further information can be obtained through the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, telephone +44-[0]171-591 3000.
Religion, the Arts and Spirituality
Breton Hall College of the University of Leeds was the venue for a two-day conference on Religion, the Arts and Spirituality held on 9-10 April 1999.
The panellists included Rt Reverend Dr D E Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham, Ayyub Malik, architect, Reverend Bill Denning, Methodist minister who works with a British-based organisation, Creative Art Network, and artists Steve Simpson, Edward Robinson, Mary Stevens and Gurminder Sikand.
The conference offered a forum for dialogue between visual artists, architects, critics, theorists and theologians on issues related to the function of the visual language in relation to belief.
Conference details can be requested from John Holt on telephone +44-[0]1484-686521 or Richard Sharples +44-[0]1484-862338. Both are also contactable at the college address.Top of the Page
Mutualities: Britain and Islam
The British Council held a conference in London in April 1999 to explore "the mutualities of the relationship between Britain and Islam."
Visiting Arts, a joint venture in Britain of the Arts Councils of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the British Council, the Scottish Arts Council, the Crafts Council and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, conducted an extensive programme of cultural and art events related to Islam or Islamic countries.
The Mutualities: Britain and Islam cultural and arts programme ran from from February to July 1999.Top of the Page
UNESCO Mediterranean Forum meets in Sicily
UNESCO's International Mediterranean Forum Multaqa, part of the UN organisation's programme of creating "an area of hope" in a region known for its tensions and contradictions, opened in September at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Agrigento, Italy.
UNESCO's Mediterranean Programme centres around two major poles: the establishment of a culture of peace and the promotion of the Mediterranean as an eco-cultural sphere.
"The Mediterranean might appear an area prey to all the contradictions, and tensions of our time, from the degradation of the environment to nationalistic and fundamentalist violence, (but) UNESCO prefers to see it as an area of hope where a real communality of destiny can be forged, mindful of the diversity of its peoples," said the Paris-based organisation.
The discussions opened in the presence of Federico Mayor, UNESCO director-general; Mohamed Brahimi El-Mili, director-general of the Arab League Educational Cultural Scientific Organisation (ALECSO); Vincenzo Fontana, president of the regional province of Agrigento; Calogero Sodano, mayor of Agrigento; and Giuseppe Drago, president of the Region of Sicily.
UNESCO says that the will to associate civil society and its actors -- towns, institutions, universities, NGOs, etc. -- and take into account the complexity of the societies involved has made the Mediterranean Programme adopt flexible structures. Functioning as a networks' network, it already works with more than 600 organisations, cultural centres, universities, institutes and municipalities in the 22 Mediterranean countries.
The Multaqa Forum, which takes its name from the Arabic word for 'assembly' or 'forum,' allows these different networks to meet and, in the words of UNESCO, "signal a new phase by launching several concrete and lasting actions." The establishment of a Mediterranean Council of Culture and of an Intervention Group against Violence in the Mediterranean -- to be composed of prominent figures from the sciences, arts, letters, cinema and journalism -- are expected to result from the initiative. Top of the Page
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