When Past Becomes Future and History Becomes Art 高千惠//未終結的過去進行式

  • DATE : 23/09/2020
  • TIME : 14:00–15:15
  • VENUE : Online Event

Taiwan Academy Lecture

When Past Becomes Future and History Becomes Art

Lecture by Chien-Hui Kao

How to tell an art story, which has experienced modernism, colonialism and globalism since aftermath to now? Taking the exhibition “Once Upon A Time－Unfinished Progressive Past” as the case study, this talk wishes to reinvestigate the unresolved issue loaded with the following questions: Whose contemporary? Whose art? Whose history? What exactly are the life stories, daily events, social milieu and attitude towards the world that have shaped today’s art and its spirit? Focusing on the life and cultural memories of three post-war generations in East Asia, my paper will study how visual art was employed to represent taming and confusion, and how it imitated, manifested and resisted to speak of the individual and collective searches for an outlet. To further the discussion on the unclear boundaries within the writing of contemporary art history, my study wishes to reveal the consciousness of the unfinished modernity, colonial history and the mechanism in the past four decades.

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About the Speaker

Chien-Hui Kao is an independent art critic, art history scholar and curator based in Chicago. Her main researches include Chinese ink art, modern and contemporary art history and criticism in East Asia, and cultural theory. Kao was the Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Normal Kaohsiung University, visiting scholar at Montclair State University of New Jersey, visiting associate professor at the Graduate School of Tunghai University, professorial fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University, and visiting professor at the Graduate Program of Sculpture Department, National Taiwan University of Arts. Currently, she serves as the visiting professor of the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts. Kao is the recipient of “2019 Yishu Awards for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art”, Canada.

 

 

Curatorial Projects

  • 2018 Ask the Way- Keelung Harbour Biennale (September – November 2018)
  • Moving Anchor, Museum of Taiwan National University of Arts (March 2017)
  • Taiwan Pavilion at the Hong Kong Ink Art Expo (December 2016)
  • Com(ic)Media on Line, the Special Subject for the 7th Shenzhen Ink Art Biennial, Shenzhen, China (December 2012)
  • Reshaping History, CHINART from 2000-2009, Beijing, China (co-curate) (May 2010)
  • 21 Days, Hong Kong Baptist University, Academy of Visual Arts (co-curate) (October 2009)
  • The Scent of A Woman: The Collection of Female Subject in Taiwan, Taipei National Palace Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Chi Mei Museum (November 2005)
  • Trading Place: Contemporary Art Museum, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) (April 2005)
  • The Homecoming, Reviewing the Venice Experience in Taiwan for Taipei Fine Art Museum (2002)
  • Taiwan Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale: Living Cell, Venice, Italy, Taipei Fine Art Museum (2001)
  • Square and Circle: the Return of Oriental Mythetic Form in New Age, New York and Taichung, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2001)
  • The Zone of Myth: Between Tenderness and Tension, Taipei Fine Art Museum (2000)
  • Landform: The Land on the Mind, Sponsor: Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, ROC., National Museum of History, Taipei (1998)

 

Books

  • The Production Line of Contemporary Art: Cases of Creative Practice And Social Engagement, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2019)
  • Unsilent Words-Text and its Productive Context of Art Criticism 2018, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2018)
  • Beyond Interpretation－Society of Art Criticism and the Modern Avant-Garde Movement, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2017)
  • Third Wing-Art concept and Its Discontents, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2014)
  • Transpassing-Special Studies on Contemporary Asia art in the 2010s, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2013)
  • Biennale Fever-The Alternative Voice of Politics, Aesthetics and Institutes, Taipei Fine Art Museum (2011)
  • Art-In the Name of XX, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2009)
  • The Moving Horizon: The Essential Guide of Utopian Art, Taipei: Artco Publishing Company (2009)
  • Rebellion in Silhouette: The New Myth of the Contemporary Artist, Taipei: Artist Publishing (2006)
  • Nothing about Critique, Taipei: Artist Publishing (2005)
  • Seduction of Daily Life, Taipei: Artist Publishing (2005)
  • After Origin: Topic on Contemporary Chinese Art in New Age, Taipei: Artist Publishing (2004)
  • The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Han and Tang Dynasty: Weaving via the Silk Road, Taipei: National Museum of History, Taiwan (2003)
  • Between the Boundaries: A Journey to Contemporary Art, China Edition (2003)
  • Between the Boundaries: A Journey to Contemporary Art, Taiwan Edition, Taipei: Artist Publishing (2001)
  • The World Art Icons in the 100 Years, Taiwan Edition, Taipei: Artist Publishing and China Edition (2000)
  • The Public Art Movement in Chicago, Taipei: Artist Publishing (1997)
  • The Constellation of Art and Culture in the Early 1990s’, Taipei: Artist Publishing (1996)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibition Catalogues

  • Com(ic) Media on Line: The 7th Shenzhen Ink Art Biennale, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute (2010)
  • A Spectacle of the Ordinary, Reshaping History (2010)
  • The Scent of a Woman-The Collection of Female Subject in Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Artist Magazine (2005)
  • Trading Place－Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2005)
  • Living Cell, Taiwan Pavilion, Vince International Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum (2001)
  • Square and Circle, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2001)
  • The Zone of Myth: Between Tenderness and Tension, Taipei Fine Art Museum (2000)
  • Landform: The Land on the Mind, National Museum of History, Taiwan (1999)