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2Nd-FASIC-Australian-Studies-In-China-Conference-Thebigpicture-Sept2014 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW The Big Picture: Lives, Landscapes, Homelands in Australian and Chinese Art is designed to stimulate discussion in a field that has become increasingly important to both Australia and China, and yet has not received the kind of attention it deserves within the broader Australian Studies community in China. THE CONFERENCE WILL ADDRESS ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND EXCHANGES, THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF IDENTITY, PLACE AND BELONGING. COVER IMAGE: William Yang, Lake George #2, 2010, digital ink jet print, 34 x 50cm. Courtesy the artist RENMIN FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY FOR AUSTRALIAN OF CHINA STUDIES IN CHINA Renmin University of China (RUC), also The Foundation for Australian Studies known as People’s University of China, in China (FASIC) is a not-for-profit colloquially Renda (; réndà), is a organisation registered in Australia. major research university in Haidian FASIC supports existing and future District, Beijing. initiatives which deepen awareness of Australia in China across a range of Renmin University is one of the most disciplines and fields of study. FASIC prestigious universities in China, with a plays a significant role in the promotion distinct focus on humanities and social of Australian Studies in China and sciences. RUC has produced many looks to further expand and strengthen influential figures, and is home to many research and teaching collaboration outstanding scholars in Law, Finance, between Australian and Chinese Economics, Journalism and International universities. FASIC provides grants and Relations. The history of RUC can be scholarships to Australian and Chinese traced back to Shanbei Public School professionals. A key initiative of the in 1937. RUC was the first modern Foundation is the BHP Billiton Chair of university established by the People’s Australian Studies at Peking University. Republic of China. On 26 November 2012, two Australian The Australian Studies Centre (ASC) Ministers announced the appointment at RUC is a key teaching and research of the inaugural Chair, Professor David institution. The Centre was officially Walker from Deakin University. He took established on 19 November 1999, up his new position in February 2013. and its mission is to encourage more FASIC is supported by BHP Billiton, people to gain a better understanding of Universities Australia, the Australia-China Australia and China. The Centre’s vision Council of the Department of Foreign is to become China’s leading academic Affairs and Trade, Department of Industry, research body of Australian Studies, with Allens and Linklaters, PWC Australia and a specific focus on Australian culture Riverstone Advisory. www.fasic.org.au and society. 3 CONFERENCE CONVENOR Professor David WALKER BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University − The annual FASIC Australian Studies with Agnieszka Sobocinska of Australia’s in China conference is convened and Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century designed by Professor David Walker, (UWA Publishing, 2012). Australia’s Asia BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies has been translated into Chinese by staff at Peking University. The conference in the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing rotates on an annual basis and addresses Foreign Studies University. a different theme with new speakers A collection of his Asia-related essays each year. The first conference was held has been published under the title at Peking University in September 2013 Encountering Turbulence: Asia in the on the theme Australia’s China/China’s Australian Imaginary (Readworthy, Australia: Past, Present and Future. 2013). His recently published personal Professor Walker has written extensively history, Not Dark Yet has been translated on Australian representations of Asia. into Chinese by Professor Li Yao, with His prize-winning book, Anxious Nation: the Chinese title Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to and published by The People’s 1939 (UQP, 1999) has been translated Literature Publishing House, Beijing into Chinese and published by China (2014). Professor Walker is a Fellow of Renmin University Press (2009). An the Academy of the Social Sciences in English edition was published in India in Australia and the Australian Academy of the same year and a Hindi translation will the Humanities. be published in 2014. He is the co-editor 4 CONFERENCE FORMAT THE BIG PICTURE HAS TWO KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS AND NINE PANEL SESSIONS. DURING EACH PANEL SPEAKERS WILL GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF 15 MINUTES EACH, FOLLOWED BY TIME FOR QUESTIONS AND AUDIENCE DISCUSSION MODERATED BY THE CHAIR. THE CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON AND ENCOURAGES OPEN DEBATE AMONG THE SPEAKERS AND AUDIENCE. 5 CONFERENCE 9.45 am SCHEDULE − SESSION 1: OPENING KEYNOTE: UNDERSTANDING AND DEFINING AUSTRALIA THROUGH ART DAY 1 Edmund Capon, AM, OBE, with introduction by Professor David Walker: The Liberation of Australian Art… from the shackles of identity THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 10.30 am 8.30 am − − MORNING TEA BREAK ATTENDEE ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION AT RENMIN UNIVERSITY Digital Hall Foyer, 8F, Block C, Huixian Building (see full address in 11 am Conference Addresses section.) − SESSION 2: FRAMING THE NATION: HISTORIES OF AUSTRALIAN ART Professor Sasha Grishin, AM, FAHA, Art 9 am Historian, Art Critic and Curator (Chair): − The positioning of Indigenous art in WELCOME AND OFFICIAL REMARKS: Australian art practice Professor Zhang Yongxian, Director, Djon Mundine, AM, Independent Curator: Australian Studies Centre, Renmin Approaches to land and landscape in University of China Indigenous art Professor David Walker, BHP Billiton Chair Professor Bill Gammage, Humanities of Australian Studies at Peking University Research Centre, Australian National University: The Future Makers Official opening by HE Ms Frances Adamson, Australian Ambassador to China 12.15 pm 9.30 am − − LUNCH CONFERENCE PHOTO Open to all conference attendees 6 1.15 pm − SESSION 3: MAKING LINKS Lesley Alway, Director, Asialink Arts (Chair) Alison Carroll, AM, Art Critic, Writer and 4.15 pm Curator: The West and the Rest: some − synergies between Australian and Chinese art SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: THE STORY Li Zhe, Art Historian and Curator: Transnational Approach to Visual Art and ONLY I CAN TELL BY AUSTRALIAN Cultural Landscape CONTEMPORARY ARTIST WILLIAM YANG Stephanie Britton, AM, Founding Executive William Yang’s practice is based in Editor, Artlink Australia: Independent photography. He is well known for his visual art publishing within the ecology of performance works, using the spoken word creativity, invention and ideas-based art and image projection, which have toured the world. He is currently making his stage performances into films. 2.30 pm − AFTERNOON TEA 5 pm − CONCLUSION CONFERENCE DAY 1 3 pm − SESSION 4: NEXT GENERATION: FUTURE 6.15 pm MODELS OF AUSTRALIA-CHINA ARTISTIC − EXCHANGE (INTERVIEW) BANQUET DINNER Toby Chapman, Assistant Curator, 4A Open to all registered conference Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney attendees (Chair) Dinner will feature announcement of Claudia Nicholson, Australian artist in the winners of the 2014 BFSU-PKU- residence, 4A Beijing Studio Program BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies James Nguyen, Australian artist in Program Translation Competition, and residence, 4A Beijing Studio Program entertainment. Liu Lifen, Founder/Director, Address: Beijing Friendship Hotel (see full Tai Project, Kunming address in Conference Addresses section.) 7 CONFERENCE 9.45 am SCHEDULE − SESSION 6: IMAGE MAKING AND THE POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP Kevin Hobgood-Brown, Managing Director, Foundation for Australian Studies in DAY 2 China, and Managing Director, Riverstone Advisory (Chair) Dr Richard Bullen, Art Historian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand: Selling New FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER China to New Zealanders: the Rewi Alley Collection at the Canterbury Museum Wu Di, PhD candidate, Australian Studies Centre, Remnin University of China: Engaging with the Asia-Pacific: Australian Public Diplomacy in China in the 21st Century Dr Geoff Raby, former Australian Ambassador to China 11 am − MORNING TEA BREAK 8.30 am − ATTENDEE REGISTRATION 11.30 am Digital Hall Foyer, 8F, Block C, Huixian Building (see full address in − Conference Addresses section.) SESSION 7: THE FACE OF THE NATION Dr Li Youwen, Associate Professor, Australian Studies Centre, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Chair) 9 am Dr Sophie Couchman, Curator, Chinese Museum, Melbourne: Chinese-Australian − brides, Photography and the White SESSION 5: OPENING KEYNOTE: THE Wedding USES OF CULTURE Dr Claire Roberts, Art Historian and Professor Julianne Schultz, AM, FAHA Curator: Exposed: China, photography Founding Editor, Griffith REVIEW, with and the art of Hedda Hammer Morrison introduction by Chinese novelist Zhang Lijia 1933-46 8 3.30 pm − SESSION 9: WORKING CROSS- CULTURALLY (INTERVIEW) Jiawei Shen, Chinese-Australian Artist working in Australia Michael Downs, Australian Artist working in Beijing Ah Xian, Chinese-Australian Artist working 12.30 pm between Australia and China − Jayne Dyer, Australian Artist working across LUNCH Sydney, Taipei, Hong Kong, Istanbul Open to all conference attendees Interview by Richard Fidler, Broadcaster, ABC Radio 1.45 pm − 4.45 pm − SESSION 8: VISUAL LITERACY IN THE CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE DAY 2 ASIAN CENTURY Aaron Seeto - Director, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (Chair) Suhanya Raffel, Director of Collections, 5 pm Art Gallery of NSW, and Australia-China − Council Board Director: The China Project: OPEN EXHIBITION VISIT
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