China Transformed: Artscape / Cityscape

China is the epicenter of rapid urbanization, provoking responses from artists, photographers, and filmmakers whose focus ranges from optimistic expansiveness to radical dislocation. In this two-day international symposium, leading curators, critics and scholars will look at artists working in different mediums as they react to the new Chinese megacity.

The keynote speaker will be the international authority on classical and contemporary Chinese art Wu Hung. Other participants include Julia Andrews, Hou Hanru, Wendy Larson, William Schaefer, Kuiyi Shen, Jerome Silbergeld, Pauline J. Yao, Deng Kunyan, Bérénice Reynaud, and Zheng Shengtian.

Organized by Department of History of Art, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Division of the Arts and the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Keynote speaker: Wu Hung
Contemporary Chinese Art and China's Urban Transformation
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