Nick Land, Jeff Wasserstrom
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Language: English with Chinese Translation
Admission Free. Reservation is required.
Shanghai Studies Symposium, Rockbund Art Museum and NYU Shanghai present a series of conversations exploring urban creativity in Shanghai.
This month the series focuses on Shanghai futurism in both its contemporary and historicalforms. It asks how the city can draw on its past to help it create the Metropolis of Tomorrow, today.
Conversations over the coming monthswill explorenew media, visual arts, cinema, Buddhism and modernity,creative clusters, intellectual property, architecture, urbanism, and low-tech innovations. Invited guests include: Dr. Justin O’Connor (QUT), visual artist QiuZhijie, Dr. Wei Wei (ECNU), Dr. James Farrer (Sophia University, Tokyo), Dr. Sun Shaoyi (NYU/Shanghai University), curator Leo Xu.
Dr. Anna Greenspan and Dr. Francesca Tarocco of NYU Shanghai, founders of the research initiative Shanghai Studies Symposium, will host the series. “As China’s largest, richest and most cosmopolitan city”, they say, “Shanghai envisions itself as the next great global cultural hub, a key site of China’s ‘soft power’.”
All Tomorrow’s Parties explores contemporary Shanghai’s intellectual and cultural currents in order to investigate questions such as: Can artistic creativity and technological innovation be programmed or planned? Is the current ‘cargo-cult’ approach to the creative sphere effective or is it destined to ultimately fail? What forms might Shanghai’s particular inventiveness take? Will it make manifest the city’s unique imprint? In which ways might it root itself in the locale so that it can become the singular product of this time and place? Do novel theories and practices engage with earlier cultural traditions? Can a neo-traditionalism emerge that is also avant-garde and modern (the ‘shock of the new’)?
About the Speakers
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He specializes in the study of Shanghai. Jeff is the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (1991);Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2009) and China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010). He has also worked as co-editor onChina in 2008: A Year of Great Significance and most recently Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-ChangingLand(2012). Jeff is a regular contributor to academic journals, and has also written for a variety of general interest periodicals. He is currently working as Asia Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Nick Land works as an editor at Urbanatomy, where he has authored numerous books on Shanghai (including 3 comprehensive guide-books to the city; a guide to Expo 2010 and a family guide). Before moving to Asia, Nick was a professor of philosophy at the Universityof Warwick, where he was the faculty co-founder, of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU). He is the author of The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992) and Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (2011) along with various articles on art, design and cybernetic culture . Nick keeps a blog on Urban Futures at http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/news-features/urban-future-blog
Contact details:
www.shanghaistudies.net
info@shanghaistudies.net
尼克·兰德，杰夫•瓦瑟斯壮
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语言：英文，中文翻译
本活动免费，凭预约参加。
上海研究讲堂联合上海外滩美术馆与上海纽约大学主办系列主题对话专场，共同探索上海的都市创意。该系列主题对话专场作为2012-2013年度上海外滩美术馆“艺术夜生活”的组成部分，将于每周五晚7点至9点间和/或每周六下午3点至6点间在圆明园路169号协进大楼一楼举行，免费向公众开放。
2012年10月19日，加州大学欧文分校教授兼上海研究专家Jeff Wasserstrom、《精彩上海》编辑Nick Land博士将共论“上海的未来主义”。2012年11月2日，人气美食作家Fuchsia Dunlop和名厨Austin Hu将探讨当代饮食文化的主题。
在有关未来主义与饮食文化的主题对话专场之后，该系列活动将继续深入地探索新媒体、视觉艺术、电影、创意集群、知识产权、性、建筑、都市化、低科技创新、佛教和现代性等主题。应邀出席活动的嘉宾将包括：Justin O’Connor博士（昆士兰科技大学）、视觉艺术家邱志杰、孙绍谊博士（纽约大学/上海大学）、策展人许宇（Leo Xu）等。
作为上海研究讲堂研究计划的共同创始人，上海纽约大学的Anna Greenspan博士和Francesca Tarocco博士将担纲该系列活动的主持。“作为中国最大、最繁华和最具国际性的城市”，她们评论道，“上海将自身定位为下一个伟大的全球文化枢纽和构建中国软实力的重要基地。”
“已全面迈入创意产业蓬勃发展期的上海，正忙碌于将城市中的老建筑改造成办公楼、精品店和咖啡屋；上海现有近200个所谓的“创意集群”。这些经过改造的旧仓库和老厂房既向城市的工业化历史致意，同时又揭示了工业化的局限。她们认为，“中国希望能突破自身作为世界工厂的局限。在过去的十年间，建成了数量惊人的服务于文化产业的基础设施。随着创意集群的蜂拥而至，上海还在建设一大批新的博物馆、音乐厅和画廊。”“然而，上海正深陷一种“创意焦虑”的状态中，许多人都发现这座城市的创意内涵仍无法与其一流的基础设施相提并论。”Greenspan和Tarocco认为，对于上海而言，正可谓“硬件到位，软件不行。”
“会聚未来”意在探索当代上海的知识与文化潮流，力图深究如下问题：艺术创意和技术创新可否被编排或规划？当前流行于创意领域的“货物崇拜”模式是否有效，或是否终将失败？具有上海特点的创意可采用何种形式？它能否彰显这座城市的独特印记？它如何植根于当地，成为此时此地独树一帜的产品？新的理论与实践是否会与过去的文化传统相角力？是否会出现一种既前卫又现代的新传统主义（“新生事物的震撼”）？