Guest Lecture by Carol Yinghua Lu: the 8th Yokohama Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives” next Monday night
shuxia chen
I am thrilled to announce that we are hosting co-Artistic Director of the 8th Yokohama Triennale Dr Carol Yinghua Lu’s guest lecture on the curatorial strategy and experience of this Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives” in Japan, for my Visual and Museum Cultures in the Asia Pacific course at UNSW Art&Design. She is very generous and is happy to share this with colleagues and students at AN4AA.
When: 5pm (AEST), Monday 16th September
Where: zoom lecture
https://unsw.zoom.us/j/82326748381?pwd=vWbHMWhvKT6KuGsgmf1UGctf4sD4Oh.1
(meeting ID: 823 2674 8381; password: 758389)
The 8th Yokohama Triennale: “Wild Grass: Our Lives”
Resonating with acclaimed Chinese writer Lu Xun’s early works Wild Grass written between 1924 and 1926, co-curators Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu’s 8th Yokohama Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives” seek out kernels of wisdom for surviving the present in both the minutiae of individual endeavour and the grand turning points of history. In this guest lecture, Carol Yinghua Lu will share their curatorial strategy in this Triennale, to use the symbol of wild grass, a fragile and humble existence, to celebrate a life force that’s unregulated, irrepressible, defiant, self-motivated, and prepared to fight alone at all times.
Carol Yinghua LU
Lu is an art historian, curator, and currently Director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. She holds a Doctorate in art history from University of Melbourne. She was artistic director and senior curator of OCAT, Shenzhen (2012-2015), guest curator at Museion, Bolzano (2013) and China researcher for Asia Art Archive (2005-2007).
She was recipient of ARIAH (Association of Research Institute in Art History) East Asia Fellowship (2017) and visiting fellow in Asia-Pacific Fellowship Program at Tate Research Centre (2013). She was co-artistic director of Gwangju Biennale (2012) and co-directed the 8th Yokohama Triennale (2024) with Liu Ding.
She has acted as a jury member for many art awards, including Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (2022-2019), Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2019), Hugo Boss Asia (2019), Golden Lion Award at Venice Biennale (2011).
Hope see some of you there next Monday night online.
Warm regards
Shuxia
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Dr Shuxia Chen
Lecturer, Curating and Cultural Leadership
Art & Design
Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture
UNSW
Curator, China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney
Humanities Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy of Humanities (2020 postponed to 2024)
Editorial committee, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art
Management committee, The Asian Arts Society of Australia
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Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature (co-editor and primary author, Power Publications, 2024)
A Home for Photography Learning: The Friday Salon, 1977-1980 (editor and primary author, Shanghai Fine Art Publishing House, 2024)
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