AAA Talk for the Friends of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Since the mid-1980s, the body of work known as 'contemporary Asian art' has emerged at a considerable pace. Large-scale exhibitions have been held in almost every major metropolis of the art world map. Yet 'contemporary Asian art' is a somewhat misleading term for it obscures the vast number of complex approaches and positions that inform the works of many Asian artists today. Among these approaches include the critical stance of many artists confronting the often violent histories of their resident lands, globalization and perhaps most significantly, the emergence of the diaspora, or a more expansive 'Asia' that may be found all over the world. The focus of this talk will be to introduce the field of contemporary Asian art as it has come to be known over the past ten years, some of its leading artists and the dominant approaches from which contemporary Asian art is made and discussed.
About the speaker
Joan Kee is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Hong Kong and an academic adviser for the Asia Art Archive. She has written extensively on contemporary Asian visual art and is presently editing the first scholarly anthology of theoretical writing on contemporary Asian art for Duke University Press. Ms. Kee received her training in art history from Yale and subsequently at Harvard. Her most recent show, 'Housewarming', an international group show of Asian artists, was held at Para/Site Art Space from17 January to19 February 2003.
