This interview was conducted at Gao Minglu's studio in Beijing on 10 July 2009.
Biography:
Zhou Yan (b. 1954, Hunan Province) is a scholar, art critic and curator.
He received his B.A. in Philosophy from the Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, his M.A. in Art History from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and his Ph.D. in Art History from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Zhou was one of the leading critics in the ’85 New Wave and a key organizer of the ‘China/Avant-Garde Exhibition’ at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing (1989). Zhou currently teaches the History of Chinese Art in Modern and Contemporary Times at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he is an Adjunct Professor of Art History and Curator of its Visual Resources Center. In addition to teaching, he publishes widely on topics relating to public art, urbanism and globalization.
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周彥，湖南人。學者、藝術批評家、策展人。
廣州中山大學哲學學士，中央美術學院美術史系碩士，後於美國俄亥俄州立大學獲藝術史博士學位。
’85新潮時期主要的批評家之一，1989年《中國現代藝術展》組委會成員。曾任北京中央美術學院講師，現為美國俄亥俄肯尼恩文理學院美術史系教授，教授中國美術史、中國現代及當代美術史；並任視覺資料室主任。出版多本著作，探索公共藝術範疇、地域性及全球化等主題
In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents.
As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.
AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.
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