London – April/May – Thursday Night Salons: Contemporary Chinese Art and Culture

A new series of events (sorry, I’m a bit late plugging the first one) in London – Thursday Night Salons: Contemporary Chinese Art and Culture – look interesting. Not least because there’s a good dose of Taiwanese culture to counter the tsunami of PRC-related stuff around (good and, very often, bad). Anything that raises awareness of Taiwan is all right with me. Anyway, these sessions are aimed at aca’s and wanna-be aca’s but I think anyone can go along and I’m sure that they accept that some of us who aren’t academics do know the odd thing or two.

so here’s what they got:

April 4 – Chen Pin-Chuan on a critical history of Taiwanese documentary and some stuff on the Taiwanese avant garde in the 1980s/90s

April 18th – Chou Yu-ling on the films of Chen Chieh-Jen (Taiwanese) and Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwanese too)

May 2nd – Emily Williams on the 1976 Huxian Peasant Painting Exhibition and the influence of Mexican Modernism on Chinese art (admittedly that’s a bit out there, but interesting)

May 16th – Ros Holmes on the Pillars of Fat stuff and Rachel Marsden on the changing nature of Chinese contemporary art

To find to more send an email to thursdaynightsalon@gmail.com