Arthub Weekly Favorite: RAM Panel Discussion
Following the opening of Heman Chong’s solo show Ifs, Ands or Buts at Rockbund Art Museum this Friday, the museum will be hosting a forum to discuss the exhibition Saturday, January 23rd from 2:30 – 4:30 pm.
Congratulations Heman on your latest project! Arthub has had the opportunity to work with the artist in the past, both in and beyond Asia: first, for a commissioned project at SH Contemporary in 2011, later that year in New York at Commercial Break for the Nuit Blanche Festival and finally in Taiwan at The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Contemporary Visions on China (2012).
Venue: 2F, Rockbund Art Museum (20 Huqiu Road, Shanghai)
Speakers: Heman Chong, Li Qi, Pauline J. Yao, Travis Jeppesen
About the Exhibition
Ifs, Ands or Buts is Singaporean artist Heman Chong’s first solo exhibition in mainland China. The exhibition’s panel discussion will be hosted by curator Li Qi, who will be joined by artist Heman Chong, curator Pauline J. Yao and writer and artist Travis Jeppesen to discuss the new works Heman created for the exhibition. They will talk about Heman Chong’s creation process and methods, the way he combined texts with images, and his conceptually-charged research and explorations.
About the Speakers
Heman Chong was born in Malaysia in 1977 and grew up in Singapore. He received his M.A. in Communication Art & Design from The Royal College of Art, London in 2002. As an artist, curator and writer, he has been travelling frequently between Europe, the United States and Asia. His works broke through the limit of regional culture. He has participated in numerous international biennales and represented Singapore in the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). He has exhibited internationally at numerous important art institutions including Tate Modern, New Museum, Museum fur Gewerbe und Kunst Hamburg and The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
Travis Jeppesen is an American writer and artist based in Berlin and London. His books include Victims, Poems I Wrote While Watching TV, Dicklung & Others, All Fall, and Wolf at the Door. His first major object-oriented writing project, 16 Sculptures, was published in book format by Publication Studio, featured in the Whitney Biennial as an audio installation, and was the subject of a solo exhibition at Wilkinson Gallery in London in the summer of 2014. He has taught as a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, Leeds Beckett University, and the Royal College of Art, where he is a PhD candidate in Critical Writing in Art and Design. His writings on art have appeared in numerous monographs and exhibition catalogues, as well as in Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America, among other publications.
Li Qi is Senior Curator at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai. He was Opinions Editor at The Art Newspaper China and Senior Editor at LEAP, where he currently serves as a contributing editor. He was a jury member of the 2015 Hugo Boss Asia Art Award for Emerging Asian Artists. In 2014, Li Qi curated CONDITIONS: An Exhibition of Queer Art, at club Destination, Beijing. Li Qi graduated from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), and from London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design. He has worked at institutions such as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing and the British Film Institute (BFI) in London.
Pauline J. Yao is a curator, writer, and co-founder of the nonprofit art space Arrow Factory in Beijing. A co-curator of the 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and recipient of the CCAA (Contemporary Chinese Art Award) Art Critic Award, she is a regular contributor to Artforum, e-flux Journal, and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. She is the author of In Production Mode: Contemporary Art in China (2008), and co-edited 3 Years: Arrow Factory (Sternberg Press, 2011). Yao served previously as Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and holds an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. She joined M+ as Curator in November 2012.
English with Chinese translation.
Free admission, reservation required – register here now!