Day 2 Roundtable Discussion, Wednesday, Nov 8, 10:30am to 12:30pm at Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM)
Day 2 Roundtable Discussion - Time Machine: Art in the Age of Acceleration
Wednesday, Nov 8, 10:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), No. 436 East Yonghe Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai
Host: He Jing
Cao Fei
Yuk Hui
Wang Jianwei
This new Biennale will be an unprecedented international event designed to explore the latest contemporary art practices. The new Biennale will be an unprecedented international event in new booming non-Western cities which will be inaugurated on October 18th 2017. The two-month event will focus on art and social progress, global urbanization and geopolitical challenges of our times in order to promote meaningful thinking and dialogue. In addition to a large exhibition in Paris, there will be a series of activities designed to create a platform allowing interactions with the public and better knowledge sharing globally. Part of the exhibition will travel to China during the spring of 2018.
Ahead of the actual exhibition, as a Chinese echo to the Biennale opening in Paris, the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Center Pompidou and Fu Dan University resolved to jointly organize the Cosmopolis Shanghai International Forum. During this two-day thematic event entitled "Reset the Time ", well-known philosophers and artists with a far-reaching influence in the field of aesthetic ideology will be invited to Shanghai. Together with Chinese scholars and representatives of the arts community, they will hold public lectures and seminars around the subject of" Art, Technology & Speculative Aesthetics "
In recent years, fast high-tech developments have triggered innovative changes in social conditions around the world, influencing the way the art world faces cultural and political conflicts, mutations and bringing more developments into artists' exploration of transversal fields, such as technological evolution, network and post-Internet society, environment, Anthropocene, Accelerationism and Object-oriented ontology. "Another major trend is that three decades of globalization and non-Western countries' dynamism have convinced artists to sharpen their thinking and deepen their research about" modernity's diversity ".
With such global background, the Cosmopolis forum ambitions to help us upgrade our vision - from the technical, social and economic level to the philosophical level - to better face the future. It wants to make clear that the core issue of social changes lies in "fundamental changes in time awareness", as well as in the non-linear theory about time development and in the way both impact artistic creation. The forum also hopes to further explore whether such philosophical concepts can bring new thinking patterns in non-Western modernity studies and whether it can promote interaction between philosophy, asthetics and the arts.
Organizers: Center Pompidou, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Fu Dan University
Joint-organizer & Co-organizer: Ming Contemporary Art Museum
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