Chinese Visual Arts and Film: Interventions, Comparisons and Chaos

A Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) Public Lecture

A talk by Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of Lincoln)

In this lecture, Stephanie Donald considers different projects that she has undertaken over the last several years in order to understand the continuities and insights that working in Chinese visual arts and film afford to Humanities scholarship.

In particular, she returns to earlier work that she has undertaken with Liu Dahong and Xu Weixin, two artists of the same generation with very different approaches to remediating the past and acknowledging its continuing impact in the present and possibly the future of the PRC and its territories. While one produces monumental statements about complicity and repetition, the other creates sketches of heaven and hell that are nonetheless magically grounded in the urbanity of modern China.

Finally, and really in exploratory mode, she speaks about the notion of strength as a core ideal in Chinese political art and visual discourse.

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Stephanie (Stephi) Hemelryk Donald FASSA FRSA is Distinguished Professor (Film) in the College of Arts at The University of Lincoln, and Interim Head of the School of History and Heritage.

She has served as Chair of the Australian Research Council HCA (Humanities and Creative Arts) panel. She was Deputy Convenor of Humanities for the Hong Kong RAE Committee in 2014, and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds (2012 and 2013), a KNAW Fellow au UvA Amsterdam (2011), and an ARC Future Fellow at UNSW (2014-2018).

Her latest books are: There’s No Place Like Home: the Migrant Child in World Cinema (2018) and Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema: Borders and Encounters (2017).

This is an inaugural event to mark the relaunch of the CEACS.

This event takes place 5:6:30pm, Wednesday 24 October, at A41, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park.

Free event. All welcome!

For more information, visit the CEACS website.

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