Guest Lecture: Dr. Jow Jiun Gong
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When
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Address
CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021
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Hours
5.30 – 7.00PM
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Phone
+61 2 8936 0888
Dr. Jow Jiun Gong, Associate Professor and Director of the PhD program in Art Theory and Practice at Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA), takes his curatorial practice and fieldwork on contemporary art in Taiwan as starting points to discuss ethnographic positions in contemporary curation.
Gong addresses the complex issues that have shaped contemporary art in Taiwan, and how his research led to exploring the curator as ethnographer. Reflecting on recent exhibition projects including Kao-Puêin the Near Future: International Contemporary Art Festival (2017) and Wild Rhizome: 2018 Taiwan Biennale (2018), Gong disusses socio-political issues, working conditions in the arts, national identity, and emergent definitions of art.
Following the lecture, a discussion and audience Q&A is led by Dr. Yu-Chieh Li, Judith Neilson Postdoctoral Fellow of Contemporary Art, UNSW Art & Design.
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Presented by UNSW Art & Design Research Forum. Organised by Yu-Chieh Li, Miranda Samuels, Veronica Tello, and supported by the Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Chinese Art and UNSW Galleries.
Dr. Jow Jiun Gong is Associate Professor and Director of Ph. D. program in Art Theory and Practice at Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA). He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from National Taiwan University and specializes in the theory of Nietzsche, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty. His book Dispositif of the Body: Merleau-Ponty and the Limits of Phenomenology (2006) won the Young Scholar Writing Prize of Academia Sinica in 2007. He has translated Gaston Bachelard’s La poétique de l'espace and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s L'Oeil et l'Esprit into Chinese. Gong serves as the convener of the editorial board of Art Critique in Taiwan (ACT), an art criticism quarterly which won the National Publishing Prize in 2011. He has published widely on and curated contemporary Taiwanese art. Exhibitions he has curated include Are We Working too Much (Eslite Gallery, Taipei, 2013), The 4th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition: The Return of Ghosts (Hongah Fine Art Museum, 2014, with Nobuo Takamori); Kao-Puêin the Near Future: International Contemporary Art Festival at Siaolong (Cultural Park in Tainan City, 2017) which was awarded the First Place of Tai-Shin Art Prize in 2018; Wild Rhizome: 2018 Taiwan Biennale (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2018, cocurated with Yu-Ling Chou).
Banner: Jun-Hon KAO, 'Apparatus of Topa', 2018. Image courtesy: the artist