RAS ART FOCUS
“Degeneration” at OCAT
January 12, 2014
2:00 - 3:30pm
OCT* Art Terminal
(1016 Beisuzhou Lu, near Wen’an Lu. Due to ongoing construction please access from 30 Wen’an Lu – 北苏州路1016号，近文安路 )
(Chen Wei - The Stars in the Night Sky are Innumerable)
With the advent of the New Year, we continue our series “Insights into Chinese Contemporary Art” to understand the phenomenon behind the hype and the mystic surrounding the state of current art in China.
This month, a special private event has been scheduled just for RAS at OCT Art Terminal. We will explore the current exhibition “Degeneration” which highlights the practices and production of ten artists born 1980 and thereafter. They are the arbiters of works of art that is defining China today. Let’s see and hear what they have to say about their “undefined generation.”
OCT is the acronym for Overseas Chinese Town that originated in Shenzhen to foster the practice and research of contemporary art in China and abroad. Expanded to several locations, the not-for-profit museum opened in Shanghai in 2012 with Yang Fudong solo show “Quote Out of Context.”
http://www.ocat.org.cn
About the Speaker
The talk and walk-through of the exhibition will be led by Mariagrazia Constantino, the museum director of OCAT Shanghai. Mariagrazia is a sinologist, curator and film critic.
She holds a Bachelor degree in Chinese Studies (University of Rome La Sapienza), a Master degree in Media and Film (SOAS, University of London) and a Ph.D. in Film Studies (Roma Tre University and SOAS). Her Ph.D. dissertation concerns the ideological representation of urban spaces in film and video from East Asia.
Since 2000 she has been conducting researches on Chinese visual culture and multimedia art and curated several exhibitions of Chinese video artists. She has published reviews and essays about Film from East Asia and is co-author of "Arte Cinese Contemporanea" (Electa), the first monograph about Chinese contemporary art published in Italy.
PRICE: 20 RMB (members), 50 RMB (non-members) plus gallery ticket entry price
RSVP: Julie Chun artgroup@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
(Please note, this event is limited to 25 maximum and preference will be given to RAS members first. Thank you for understanding.)