I joined the panel with Cole Roskam, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, and presented a paper on art in the post-Occupy spaces in Hong Kong.
How do artifacts, performances, and institutions arising within the context of the art world migrate into the public sphere and effect actual change? The workshop addresses the concrete material culture and micro-history of cities ranging from Istanbul to Hong Kong, but also connections to urban planning and infrastructure, as well as the theorization of interdisciplinary practices at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. We are particularly fascinated by the imaginative and methodological challenges of trying to chart the course of development from the rapidly shifting present into the future—a field more commonly inhabited by planners and financial interests, but of critical important to the arts, humanities and the general public.
Organized by:
Andrei Pop, Associate Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College of The University of Chicago
Mechtild Widrich, Assistant Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Speakers:
Sonia Cheng, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Özge Ersoy, Asia Art Archive
Andrei Pop, Associate Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College of The University of Chicago
Cole Roskam, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture , University of Hong Kong
Eric Schuldenfrei, Associate Dean, Faculty of Architecture , University of Hong Kong
Ellie Tse, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mechtild Widrich, Assistant Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sampson Wong, Department of Liberal Arts Studies, The Hong Kong Academic for Performing Arts
Wen Yau, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Ying Zhou, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
presented by: UChicago Center in Hong Kong
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