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DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines how contemporary Chinese artists tra
 nsform the traditional handscroll format into a site of remediation within
  global art institutions. It analyzes specific works: Wang Qingsong’s Th
 e Night Revels of Lao Li (2000) transforms the handscroll into a monumenta
 l public spectacle\, subverting its private viewing ritual. Hong Lei’s v
 itrine-displayed scroll\, I dreamt of being killed by my father…(2000)\,
  fuses Daoist symbolism with psychoanalysis to process memory. Chen Chieh-
 jen’s mechanized Star Chart (2017) employs automated scrolling to critiq
 ue capitalist discipline and technological surveillance. Drawing on media 
 theory’s concept of remediation\, I argue that these practices not only 
 revive the handscroll’s narrative temporality but also expose the tensio
 ns between Chinese aesthetic traditions and Western institutional framewor
 ks. By turning the handscroll into a site of cross-cultural translation\, 
 these artists reveal how visual media negotiate between tradition and mode
 rnity\, intimacy and spectacle\, and local and global systems of meaning. 
 This project illuminates how Chinese contemporary art challenges Western-c
 entric paradigms and offers new ways to understand cultural exchange and r
 epresentation in an age of global visual circulation.\n\nAbout the speaker
 : Kexin Lyu is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History of
  Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuse
 s on contemporary Chinese photography in post-2000 art. Before joining Pit
 t\, she earned her MFA in Photography from Tsinghua University and her BA 
 in Art History from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
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LOCATION:Frick Fine Arts Building\, 202
SUMMARY:Remediated Handscrolls: Chinese Photography as Institutional Critiq
 ue (HAA Colloquium)
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/remediated-handscrolls-chines
 e-photography-as-institutional-critique
CATEGORIES:Lectures\, Symposia\, Etc.
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