CCVA姜节泓教授新书《万众一体》将于2024年7月8日在伦敦 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre 举办发布会，活动现场姜教授将与Chris Berry 教授（伦敦国王学院）和张温惠博士（考陶德艺术学院）进行对谈，并由杨槃槃博士（伦敦大学亚非学院）主持讨论。本次活动属于伦敦大学亚非学院东亚研究研讨会的一部分，免费向公众开放。
作者从“一致化的身体”这一视角出发，检视在中国日常生活中的大众集会和身体规训中艺术的角色，以及这些场景对人们的观念感知和集体记忆有何种影响。本书选取了相关艺术作品，通过批判性反思重新解读这些艺术表达，并探索了20世纪80年代以来中国艺术创作的一个关键源头。作者以策展叙述的写作方式，分别从五个角度（五个章节）来讨论和剖析当代中国社会中的“一致化的身体”：单位与集体、制服与面具、纪律与规训、操练与表演、以及压制与禁闭。书中包含200张彩色插图，来自30多位重要的中国当代艺术家，包括丁乙、耿建翌、何云昌、厉槟源、宋冬、孙原和彭禹、岳敏君、王光乐、徐冰、杨振中、姚清妹、张培力、张晓刚、赵赵、周啸虎等。
《万众一体》封面
The Conformed Body book cover
姜节泓教授新书《万众一体》发布会
时间：2024年7月8日 伦敦时间17:00开始
地点：伦敦 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre （Russell Square London WC1B 5DQ）
主持：杨槃槃
嘉宾：姜节泓、Chris Berry、张温惠
活动免费，请通过以下链接或扫描二维码提前预约：https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-the-conformed-body-contemporary-art-in-china-tickets-912744161357?aff=oddtdtcreator
讲者介绍：
姜节泓现为英国伯明翰城市大学艺术学院教授，中国视觉艺术中心主任，英国学术刊物《中国当代艺术研究》（Intellect）主编。他曾担任重要国际当代艺术展的主策展人，其中包括第四届广州三年展主题展《 见所未见》（2012），第三届曼彻斯特亚洲三年展主题展《 天下无事》（2014），首届泰国双年展《仙境的边缘》（2018–19）。他的英文书著包括《没有记忆的时代：城市变迁中的中国当代摄影》（2015），《当代中国的艺术》（2021）、以及《日常有别：疫情间来自中国艺术世界的十二场对话》（2021）。
Chris Berry，伦敦国王学院电影研究教授，20世纪80年代，他曾为中国电影进出口公司工作，他的学术研究专注于华语世界的视听媒介，出版著作包括《电影和国家：银幕上的中国》、《中国电影节：翻译的场所》、《中国新纪录片运动：为了公众的记录》等。
张温惠的研究关注现当代艺术，尤其是中国和海外华人在转型时期和全球化语境中的创作。她目前是伦敦大学科陶德艺术学院现当代艺术副教授，她的论文在许多学术期刊、展览图录和艺术杂志上发表。
杨槃槃是伦敦大学亚非学院现代中国艺术与视觉文化助理教授，2023至2025年，她是英国国家人文艺术研究会 “中国当代艺术和新兴媒体中的书法想象”科研项目首席研究员。目前，她作为客座编辑正在与姜节泓教授合作编辑《中国当代艺术期刊》移动影像特辑。同时，她还是北伦敦实验艺术空间斯磨画廊联合创办人。
张培力，“必由之路”，2018
Zhang Peili, 'The Only Access', 2018
政治纯形式办公室，“图书馆”，2008
PSFO, 'Library' (Installation), 2008
The book launch for Professor Jiang Jiehong's The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China, published by Brill, will include a presentation by Professor Jiang Jiehong (Birmingham City University), remarks by Professor Chris Berry (King's College London) and Dr Wenny Teo (The Courtauld Institute of Art), and a panel conversation moderated by Dr Panpan Yang (SOAS University of London).
Sample books will also be available.
The event is part of SOAS East Asian Research Seminar (EARS). It is free and open to all. But booking is essential.
Through the perspective of the ‘conformed body’, this groundbreaking book examines the role in art of everyday conformist practices in the People’s Republic of China, such as mass assemblies and bodily trainings and exercises, as well as their impact on people’s perceptions and collective memories. It identifies related artworks, reassesses artistic interpretations with critical reflections, and explores a key origin of artistic productions in post-Mao China. Featuring 200 colour illustrations, the book discusses works by more than 30 internationally acclaimed Chinese contemporary artists, including Ai Weiwei, Geng Jianyi, Song Dong, Xu Bing, Zhang Peili and Zhang Xiaogang.
王冬龄，“万众一体”，2022
Wang Dongling, 'Wanzhong yiti' (Ten Thousand Bodies Conformed to One), 2022.
Book Launch
The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China
Chair: Panpan Yang
Speakers: Jiang Jiehong, Chris Berry, Wenny Teo
Time: 8th July 2024, 17:00
Event Location: The event will take place at Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT) within the SOAS Brunei Gallery.
Address: Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ
(The SOAS Brunei Gallery is located between Malet Street and Thornhaugh Street, in the north-west corner of Russell Square. The Gallery is a five minute walk from the British Museum.)
Book a spot for the event using this link of the QR code above:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-the-conformed-body-contemporary-art-in-china-tickets-912744161357?aff=oddtdtcreator
(The event is free and open to all. But booking is essential)
耿建翌，“第二个八拍”，1991
Geng Jianyi, 'The Second Series of Eight Steps', 1991
赵赵，“伟像”，2011
Zhao Zhao, 'Officer' (Sculpture), 2011
About the speakers:
Professor Jiang Jiehong is Professor of Chinese Art, Director of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, and Principal Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect). Jiang has been Lead Curator for many international exhibitions including the Guangzhou Triennial: The Unseen (2012), the Asia Triennial Manchester: Harmonious Society (2014), and the First Thailand Biennale: Edge of the Wonderland (Krabi, 2018-19). Jiang’s recent book publications include An Era without Memory: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban Transformation (2015), The Art of Contemporary China (2021) and The Otherness of the Everyday: 12 Conversations from the Chinese Art World during the Covid-19 Pandemic (2021).
Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London. In the 1980s, he worked for China Film Import and Export Corporation in Beijing, and his academic research is grounded in work on audio-visual media of the Sinosphere. Books include: Cinema and the National: China on Screen; Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution; Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation; Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture; Public Space, Media Space; The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record; and Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and Social Space.
Wenny Teo is a specialist in modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on China and Chinese diasporas in transnational and global contexts. She is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Modern and Contemporary Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art. Her writing has been published in numerous academic journals, exhibition catalogues and art magazines.
Panpan Yang is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the arts and visual cultures of modern China at SOAS University of London. From 2023 to 2025, she is the Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project on calligraphic imagination in contemporary art and emerging media. With Jiang Jiehong, she is co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art on the moving image. She is also the co-founder of Small Gallery, an experimental art space in North London.
杨振中，“伪装”，2015
Yang Zhenzhong, 'Disguise', 2015
周啸虎，“临时雕塑：创可贴”，2014
Zhou Xiaohu, 'Temporary Sculpture: Band-Aid', 2014
孙原和彭禹，“难自禁”，2016
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, 'Cannot Help Myself', 2016
Acknowledgement
The book event is part of SOAS East Asian Research Seminar (EARS). We gratefully acknowlege the support from the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA), Birmingham City University, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), SOAS School of Arts, the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, and SOAS China Institute.
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