Temporal Shifts
Time Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices
Friday, Feb 1, 2013 | 3:00 pm
Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Free and open to the public.
Temporal Shifts, in February 2013, was organized in conjunction with a residency at the Arts Research Center by renowned Taiwanese playwright/director/filmmaker Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-Chuan), who was on campus for two weeks as an Avenali Resident Fellow in January and February of this same year. This daylong symposium brought together scholars such as Guo-Juin Hong (Duke), artists such as choreographer nunu kong (China), and curators such as Hou Hanru (SFAI, Rome) to discuss questions of temporality as they are articulated in time-based art forms such as cinema, sound, dance, and theater across China and Taiwan. Timed to anticipate Shih Chieh Huang’s opening at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as well as BAM/PFA curator, Philippe Pirotte’s exhibition of the video art of Yan Fudong, speakers considered how different art forms respond to changing political and economic conditions in China.