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.
Marking the first of a series of events related to “Second Assembly: Exhibiton-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 Phnom Penh-based curator and writer Erin Gleeson to discuss and present excerpts from the 1992 documentary film ‘Between Shadow and Light’.
In 2018 the Rockbund Art Museum launches a research program entitled “Curatorial Practices in Asia”, the main objective of which is to develop a strong network in Asia with artists, academics, art organizations, independent curators and researchers—with people engaged in innovative research and artistic projects that support a better understanding of contemporary artistic practices in Asia.
Catherine Wagner’s lecture entitled Place History and the Archive covers a 40-year trajectory of her work including her public practice where she has constructed art installations in the public domain. Wagner’s incisive conceptually driven photography moves seamlessly between different strategies and content following her interest in deconstructing the ways in which knowledge is transferred.
This talk will focus on the relationships between avant-garde artists, the modern art world and economic factors, to discover how the capital flows and allocation in art markets help to establish art networks and influence the development of the art world which is mostly self-developed and presented in front of the public in the pattern of communities.
This talk will analyze the building process, projects, and different context-based roles of the chi K11 Art Museum, the Rockbund Art Museum and the art museum complex under construction in the West Bund area, and discover the dynamic variables behind the staggering art museum boom, as well as the complicated relations between these variables, in hope of offering a new perspective to understand the current art museum frenzy in Shanghai.
As one of Europe’s most prosperous and vibrant economic bright spot, the region along the Rhine River in Germany has nurtured its own culture of art institutions since the mid-20th century. How has art been evolving in this region?
The Documenta 14, the Venice Biennale 2017 and the Sculpture Project Münster 2017 have evoked heated debates in the Western art community this summer.
Unlike the start of secular society in China enabled by scholar-bureaucrats from the former military aristocracy class, the leading groups contributing to the secularization of the Western world were from clerical authorities and the emerging well-educated Humanist intellectuals. During the primary period of the formulation of modern community, when the new religious community cooperated and competed with humanists as well as the later Enlightenment supporters, spiritual construction played the
The Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) and the Public Art Cooperation Center (PACC) are jointly presenting a series of academic talks on “the publicness of the community” (die Öffentlichkeit der Gemeinschaft) from August to December, 2017.As the first lecture of this series, this talk will introduce you to the world of laws and communities. How have communities been shaping our rules and laws that are being changed over time? And how should our law systems respond to the influence of today’s communities?
