Admission Arrangement for Symposium
Limited Seats First-come-first-served
The symposium is free of charge and admitted by tickets. Each person is entitled to ONE ticket only. One symposium ticket is valid for the whole-day symposium. Tickets will be distributed from 9:45am onwards on the event date (17 May 2013) at the Enquiry Counter, G/F, the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Important: Ticket holders should enter the Lecture Hall no later than 10 minutes after each session commences, otherwise the tickets will be invalid and the seats will be released to those non-ticket-holders waiting for admission. Live feed is also available at the Museum Lobby*, 1/F. For enquiry, please contact 2734 2099.
*Simultaneous interpretation service is not available at the Museum Lobby
"Another Modernity or Contemporaneity?: Traditional Chinese Media in the Context of Contemporary Art" International Symposium
To coincide with the exhibition "Hong Kong Art: Open Dialogue" Exhibition Series V "The Origin of Dao: New Dimensions in Chinese Contemporary Art", the Hong Kong Museum of Art with the sponsorship from The Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, will organise an international symposium, titled "Another Modernity or Contemporaneity?: Traditional Chinese Media in the Context of Contemporary Art". Convened by the guest curator of the exhibition, Prof Pi Daojian, together with over 10 guest speakers from overseas, mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, this symposium will give an in-depth discussion on the new dimensions in Chinese contemporary art.
Date: 2013.5.17 (Fri)
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Venue: Lecture Hall (B/F), Hong Kong Museum of Art
Moderator: Prof Pi Daojian
Guest Speakers include:
Prof Bai Qianshen, Mr Johnson Chang Tsong-Zung, Dr Christina Chu,
Prof Manray Hsu, Prof Kao Chienhui, Dr Martina Koppel-Yang,
Prof LaoZhu (Zhu Qingsheng), Dr Lu Mingjun, Prof Qiu Zhijie, Prof Shen Kuiyi, Ms Eve Tam,
Prof Wang Min'an, Prof Zhang Zhiyang
* Name arranged alphabetically according to the surname
| Session 1 10:10 – 11:45am Abstraction, Concept and Medium: Tradition and the Contemporary |
| Moderator and Commentator: | Prof Johnson Chang
Tsong-Zung | Guest Professor of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and Independent Curator |
| Speaker: | Prof LaoZhu (Zhu Qingsheng) | Professor of Peking University |
| | Prof Manray Hsu | Visiting Professor of the National Taiwan University of the Arts in Taiwan, Independent Curator and Art Critic |
| | Dr Martina Köppel-Yang | Independent Curator, Art Critic and Historian |
| | Prof Pi Daojian | Professor of College of Fine Arts, South China Normal University, Guangzhou |
| 11:45am – 12:00nn | Break |
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| Session 2 12:00nn – 12:45pm Calligraphy and the Contemporary |
| Moderator and Commentator: | Prof Shen Kuiyi | Professor of Asian Art History and Director of Chinese Studies Program at University of California, San Diego |
| Speaker: | Prof Bai Qianshen | Associate Professor of the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Boston University |
| | Prof Qiu Zhijie | Professor of School of Inter-media Art, China Art Academy |
| 12:45 – 2:15pm | Lunch |
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| Session 3 2:15 – 4:00pm Ink Art and the Contemporary |
| Moderator and Commentator: | Prof Bai Qianshen | Associate Professor of the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Boston University |
| Speaker: | Prof Kao Chien-hui | Advisor of Asia Art Archive, Art Educator, Art Critic and Independent Curator |
| | Prof Shen Kuiyi | Professor of Asian Art History and Director of Chinese Studies Program at University of California, San Diego |
| | Dr Christina Chu Kam-leun | Independent Researcher, Former Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Museum of Art |
| | Dr Lu Mingjun | Lecturer of College of Art, Sichuan University |
| | Ms Eve Tam Mei-yee | Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Museum of Art |
| 4:00 – 4:15pm | Break |
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| Session 4 4:15 – 5:30pm Another Modernity or Contemporaneity? |
| Moderator and Commentator: | Prof Qiu Zhijie | Professor of School of Inter-media Art, China Art Academy |
| Speaker: | Prof Wang Min'an | Professor of the Foreign Literature Research Institute, Beijing Foreign Studies University |
| | Prof Zhang Zhiyang | Professor of the Centre of Social Science, Hainan University |
| | Prof Johnson Chang Tsong-Zung | Guest Professor of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and Independent Curator |
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| Session 5 5:30 – 6:00pm Epilogue |
| Moderator and Commentator: | Prof Pi Daojian | Professor of College of Fine Arts, South China Normal University, Guangzhou |
The Storyteller (Cantonese)
Storyteller: Mr Tam Seir-kim
2013.5.18 (Sat)
2:00 – 3:00pm / 3:30 – 4:30pm
Historical Pictures Gallery (3/F)
Storyteller: Mr Li Tak-po
2013.5.19 (Sun)
2:00 – 3:00pm / 3:30 – 4:30pm
Chinese Fine Art Gallery (4/F)
40 quotas per session
No registration needed. Visitors are free to join the activity at the gallery.
Chinese Painting Demonstration (Cantonese)
Mr Chan Wan-yiu (Experienced Chinese Painting Instructor)
2013.4.7 (Sun)
Dr Ho Fung-lin (Lingnan Artist)
2013.5.26 / 6.2 (Sun)
Mr Lam Ting-xian (Contemporary Ink Colour Painter)
2013.6.23 / 6.30 (Sun)
2:30 – 4:30pm
4/F Lobby
40 quotas per session, valid admission ticket required.
Admission label to this activity is available at 1/F Audio Guide Counter from 12:00 noon on the day of the activity. Limit of one label per person.
Show Time
2013.3.23 – 5.19
Every Wed & Sun, 4:45pm
Lecture Hall (B/F), 150 seats
★ Repeatedly shown within the period
Note: Lecture Hall is in refurbishment, "Show Time" will be suspended until further notice.
| Wed | Sun | Video Programme | Language | mins |
| Exploring Museum Series |
| | 3.24 | New Beginning — Introduction to the
Hong Kong Museum of Art ★ | Cantonese | 13 |
| 3.27 | 3.31 | Museum Conservation ★ | Cantonese with English subtitles | 21 |
| Artistic Themes Through the Ages Series |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | The Painter's Studio ★ | English | 27 |
| 4.10 | 4.14 | The Cityscape ★ |
| 4.17 | 4.21 | Illuminating the Night ★ |
| 4.24 | 4.28 | Women Bathing ★ |
| 5.1 | 5.5 | The Window ★ |
| Art at Perspectives Series |
| 5.8 | 5.12 | Heavens Above | English with Chinese subtitles | 50 |
| 5.15 | 5.19 | A Day to Remember — Building a Monument to the Few | 52 |
