For the third talk in a series related to “Second Assembly: Exhibition-Making Practice in China and Southeast Asia in the 1990s”, a curatorial project jointly curated by Biljana Ciric and the museum, RAM is delighted to invite Kuala Lumpur-based curator and writer Eric Goh to discuss the 1995 exhibition Skin Trilogy by the Malaysian arts collective Five Arts Centre.
Philippines Macho Academy and Princess Studies, the works of Eisa Jocson's, mirror the entwined relations between dancing, physical labor and desire consumption. Physical sensation and structural contradiction will be the two main topics of this talk, during which the following questions will be discussed: How does a body present or become a performance of desire? How does such desire change the trading and power relations between the audience and the performer?
How have educators and artists specializing in glass art gradually developed their understandings on glass? We are honored to invite Zheng Wenqing, a glass artist and professional educator teaching glass art, to this talk to share with the audience how she has formed her own understandings on glass and what challenges and interesting stories she has experienced during her teaching. We also invite Liao Fei to join the talk.
We will look at the Jinuo Eco-Museum in Baka Village, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture as a case study, and further consider the parallel booms in ethnic nationality museums and tourism in Yunnan.
We are honored to invite the art critic Pi Li to introduce the background to the development of Chinese female art and further interpret Lin’s art languages in her artworks in this talk, with a view to inspiring the audience to explore and understand Lin’s creations from diverse angles. Pi will also talk about how the artist challenges the hierarchy of materials and other widely-accepted notions in the contemporary art community through use of “technical materials” which are considered inferior
We invite educators from educational institutions and parents to a guided tour of the exhibition followed by a discussion about how to bring children into the exhibition. Please see RAM WeChat public account for details and to sign up. Reservation and tickets are required.
In Chinese bird and flower markets, totally different plants may have an identical name, such as “Golden Fortune”. Different from botanists’ scientific classification of plants, people use these auspicious names to convey their wishes for better life and beautiful imaginations about nature. This has inspired the artist Lin Tianmiao to create My Garden, an artwork that is included in her exhibition “Systems” and now displayed on the fourth floor of the Rockbund Art Museum.
