Global Exhibitions and Theorizing Chineseness
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Arts Languages and Cultures
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
Jane Davidson (Principal Investigator / Fellow) |
Publications
Davidson J
(2010)
Mining the Multicultural
in Art History
Davidson J
(2019)
Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017
in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas
Chin Davidson, Jane
(2019)
Dance that Searches for Beauty and Fights For it
in Hyperallergic
Chin Davidson, Jane
(2018)
A Performance in Montana Challenges How We Define Activist Art
in Hyperallergic
Davidson J
(2012)
DISPLACEMENTS OF THE DESIRING MACHINE
in Interventions
Davidson J
(2016)
The body of the archive: Chineseness at the Venice Biennale (1993-2005)
in Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
Chin Davidson, Jane
(2019)
Restaging Feminism - the Activist Retrospective
in Journal of Curatorial Studies
Chin Davidson, Jane
(2019)
Restaging Exhibitions Editorial
in Journal of Curatorial Studies
Title | Inner Space, Global Matter - Recording from the Structures Within, Geraldine Ondrizek: Works from 2008 through 2012 |
Description | Curator of three-site exhibition at NASA's Johnson Space Center, University of Houston - Clear Lake, and Florida International University showcasing Geraldine Ondrizek's artwork, engaging diverse artistic media to portray, explore and enhance images of the genetic testing of human and animal cellular tissue. The artistic expression of microbial life for NASA's historic communities of Texas and Florida proposes important questions about art and science. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2012 |
Impact | 1. Editor of exhibition catalogue: Inner Space, Global matter - Recording from the Structures Within, Geraldine Ondrizek: Works from 2008 through 2012 (Houston: University of Houston, 2013) 2. Symposium organizer and moderator: with Geraldine Ondrizek, Reed College; Kevin Phillips, Biochemistry and Biology, University of Houston; Amy Lampazzi, Mathematics, University of Houston,; Darrin Leleux, Aerospace Engineer, Johnson Space Center, November 2012 3. Author of "Chromosome Painting - Geraldine Ondrizek," Surface Design journal (Fall, 2013) |
URL | http://culturalentrepreneurs.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/inner-space-matters-to-nasa/ |
Title | Setting the Table: Preparing Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party - 30-Year Anniversary Exhibition at the University of Houston, Clear Lake |
Description | Organized and curated the "Setting the Table" commemorative exhibition of Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party," Feb. 19 - April 30 in the university's Alfred R. Neumann Library, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, Texas. The exhibit, on loan from ACA Galleries, included drawings, test plates and maquettes from the original installation. The university was one of the first three galleries to host the original "The Dinner Party" installation in 1980. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2011 |
Impact | Edited the exhibition catalogue, Setting the Table: Preparing Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party - 30-Year Anniversary Exhibition at the University of Houston, Clear Lake (2011) Curated ancillary show Margarita Cabrera, Space in Between, sewing performance by women from Mexico, and subsequently wrote article for Journal of Visual Culture about Cabrera's work, which was first presented at the Herbert Marcuse conference |
Description | I have developed research that contributes to the new model for understanding art in the era of globalization through the study of classificatory orders in global exhibitions. Also, the growth in global art, world art, and the growth of exhibitions of non-European artistic expression has led to further developments of my research subjects as reflected in my outputs. The new topics and subjects that have emerged include art as an expression of indigenous knowledges of many cultures and eco-feminist art in the global context. |
Exploitation Route | Besides the numerous articles in peer reviewed journals and chapters in anthologies, I have published an co-edited collection titled, Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum (Routledge 2017). My monograph Staging Art and Chineseness: Politics of Trans/Nationalism and Global Exposition was published by the University of Manchester Press in 2019. These are especially important modes of taking forward the findings of my research project. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Environment Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections Other |
URL | https://csusb.academia.edu/JaneChinDavidson |
Description | I have presented my findings at schools and institutes. Through my published research and presentations at conferences and lectures, the findings of my research have been cited many times by other researchers, included in the syllabi of my peers, and have initiated other forms of discourse on Chinese identity, artistic expression, and global exhibitions. My work in global art and the practice of the museum has grown and two book projects are in development. In July 2017, the book Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum published by Routledge was released. My next book Staging Art and Chineseness: Politics of Trans/Nationalism and Global Expositions, will be published by the University of Manchester Press in 2019. |
First Year Of Impact | 2009 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Journal Peer Review for Communication, Culture and Critique |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Qualitative review of research by peers in the visual studies field |
Description | Journal Peer Review for Journal of Gender Studies |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Qualitative review of submission for research journal on gender issues |
Description | Journal Peer Review for M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Qualitative review of research submitted by colleagues in the field |
Description | Dean's Grant Professional Development |
Amount | $3,250 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University, San Bernardino |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 09/2016 |
End | 09/2017 |
Description | Evans Professional Development Award |
Amount | $500 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 03/2015 |
End | 07/2016 |
Description | Exceptional Service Grant |
Amount | $4,902 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University, San Bernardino |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 12/2016 |
End | 06/2017 |
Description | Faculty Research Grant |
Amount | $4,000 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University, San Bernardino |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 04/2016 |
End | 12/2017 |
Description | Faculty Research Grant |
Amount | $6,000 (USD) |
Organisation | University of Houston |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 11/2010 |
End | 10/2011 |
Description | Faculty Research Grant |
Amount | $626 (USD) |
Organisation | University of Houston |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 11/2012 |
End | 10/2013 |
Description | Faculty Research Grant |
Amount | $3,500 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 08/2013 |
End | 05/2014 |
Description | Faculty Research Grant |
Amount | $4,866 (USD) |
Organisation | University of Houston |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 11/2011 |
End | 10/2012 |
Description | Marilyn Mieszkuc Professorship in Women's Studies |
Amount | $5,000 (USD) |
Organisation | University of Houston |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 05/2010 |
End | 09/2011 |
Description | Professors Across Borders Grant |
Amount | $2,500 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University, San Bernardino |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 04/2016 |
End | 12/2017 |
Description | Summer Research Fellowship |
Amount | $3,000 (USD) |
Organisation | California State University, San Bernardino |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 05/2016 |
End | 12/2016 |
Description | Seeing Differently |
Organisation | Reed College |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Panel Discussion Jane Chin Davidson with Amelia Jones and Alpesh Patel: "Seeing Differently" Friday, September 20, 2013, 1:00-3:00 p.m. Reed College Free and open to the public. Contemporary art professors Jane Chin Davidson (Reed class of 2001) and Alpesh Kantilal Patel will lead a discussion of their work with comments by Amelia Jones on queer, feminist, South Asian, and Chinese visualities, which draws upon Jones? phenomenological approach to identity. |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaborated on presentation of research around Amelia Jones's project Seeing Differently |
Impact | Videorecording of event in archives of Reed College library |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | "A Critical Embodiment of Queer Substitutes," Queer Caucus for Art: Flagging: Aesthetic Tactics and Queer Signification (CAA, Los Angeles) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper published in 2015 in N.Paradoxa "A Critical Embodiment of Queer Substitutes," Queer Caucus for Art: Flagging: Aesthetic Tactics and Queer Signification, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, February 21- 25, 2012 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | "Art for Labor's Sake: Appropriating the Corporate Entity," Critical Refusals, Fourth Biennial Conference, International Herbert Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Led to publication for Journal Visual Culture (2013) "Art for Labor's Sake: Appropriating the Corporate Entity," Critical Refusals, Fourth Biennial Conference, International Herbert Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania, October 27-29, 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | "Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care," invited webinar workshop participant, October 16-17; October 23-24; October 30-31; and November 6-7,2020. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research {CAD+SR) in partnership with the Associazone Culturale Matilde Pianciani, Spoleto, Italy. Over four successive Fridays and Saturdays in October-November 2020, a globally diverse group of activists, artists, agronomists, farmers and scholars will meet online to engage a range of concepts related to agroecological practices, including soil and land, care pedagogies, and herb and seed heritages. We will discuss community initiatives informed by transdisciplinary agricultural thinking, including a wide-range of Indigenous knowledge and other structures of social cooperation and production . These conversations will redefine gardens, growing, and growth through broadly sustainable processes that involve both human and non-human entities . We will consider racial and environmental justice as ontological and political projects. Cosmological Gardens is led by curator, artist and architecture theorist, Pelin Tan {Mardin, Turkey), CAD+SR Senior Researcher, with CAD+SR's research staff, Chris Bratton, Dr. Dalida Marfa Benfield, and Mary Ellen Strom . Confirmed speakers include Maria Puig-de-la-Bellacassa, Elizabeth Hoover, Vivien Sansour, Otobong Nkanga, Luigi Coppola, and Ou Ning. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://padlet.com/CenterforArtsDesign/CosmologicalGardens |
Description | "Live Artist Live" featuring Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom, invited co-moderator with Patty Chang for Webinar Discussion for performance art festival at USC-Roski School of Art and Design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | "Live Artist Live" featuring Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom, invited co-moderator with Patty Chang for Webinar Discussion for performance art festival at USC-Roski School of Art and Design, November 7, 2020. 2 p.m.: Performance by Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom - Lincoln Gave Us a Beach, followed by a discussion and Q&A with CSUSB professor and curator Jane Chin Davidson and Patty Chang |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-artists-live-iii-despairrepair-registration-124352751427# |
Description | "Microscopic Visions: Geraldine Ondrizek: Recording from the Structures Within," Somaesthetics: Images of the Body, Images of the Mind |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Microscopic Visions: Geraldine Ondrizek: Recording from the Structures Within," Somaesthetics:Images of the Body, Images of the Mind, 2012 Annual Symposium Art Historians of Southern California, Chapman University, Orange, CA, October 27, 2012 School reported increase in interest in science and aesthetic body subject. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | "Non-Speech Acts and the Performance of Silence" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited as special guest lecturer for the Art + Art History's Social Justice Artist Lecture series, Florida International University, Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS), October 20, 2017. Brought dialogue on the subject of ethics, social justice, and activism among artists and visual art practitioners. University reported extended dialogue after the lecture. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://carta.fiu.edu/mbus/events/lecture-jane-chin-davidson/ |
Description | "Patty Chang - Transnational Border Crossings and the Cinematic Subject" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation for panel Transnational Belonging and Subjectivity-In-Process: Contemporary Women Artists' Encounters with Space, Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts, Christie's Education, New York, June 26- 27, 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.christies.com/exhibitions/christies-education-conference-celebrating-female-agency-arts |
Description | "Seeing Differently" invited panelist and keynote participant |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Seeing Differently" invited panelist and keynote participant in inaugural events for opening the new performing arts building at Reed College, September 19 -21, 2013 with Amelia Jones, McGill University, Alpesh Patel, Florida International University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | "Staging Art and Chineseness and Above Sea," invited speaker for Talk wit Jenny Lin, hosted by John Tain, Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive and University of Manchester Press, with Series Editors Amelia Jones and Marsha Meskimmon, September 10, 2020. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | "Staging Art and Chineseness and Above Sea," invited speaker for Talk with Jenny Lin, hosted by John Tain, Hong Kong, Asia Art Archive and University of Manchester Press, with Series Editors Amelia Jones and Marsha Meskimmon, September 10, 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kjSxkvZBk |
Description | "Staging Art and Chineseness," invited speaker, Global Studies Seminar, University of California, Riverside, April 24, 2020, Zoom Seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | "Staging Art and Chineseness," invited speaker, Global Studies Seminar, University of California, Riverside, April 24, 2020, Zoom Seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | "The 'Play' of the Psychic Event and Self-Inflicted Violence," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper developed for publication from: "The 'Play' of the Psychic Event and Self-Inflicted Violence," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, March 26-29, 2009, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | "The Art Object as Text in the Practice of Comparative Visuality," American Comparative Literature Association conference in New Orleans |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Led to publication of chapter in 2013 book, World Cinema and the Visual Arts. Ed. David Gallagher, London: Anthem Press (2012) "The Art Object as Text in the Practice of Comparative Visuality," American Comparative Literature Association conference in New Orleans, April 1-4, 2010 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | "The Erotic Filial Instinct," Glocal Imaginaries, Lancaster University Conference, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Publication of 2012 article in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies "The Erotic Filial Instinct," Glocal Imaginaries, Lancaster University Conference, UK, September 9-12, 2009 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | "The Trans of the Intellectual's Fetish," Colour Me Queer panel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "The Trans of the Intellectual's Fetish," Colour Me Queer panel, Association of Art Historians 40th Anniversary conference, Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, April 10-12, 2014 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | "Toward a Decolonial Art History" panel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of project for "Toward a Decolonial Art History" panel ASAP12 The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference, October 27-30, 2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | "Transnational, Transcultural, Transversal: On the Decolonial Discourse of Art" College Art Assn Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, March 4, 2022, Chicago, IL • "Transnational, Transcultural, Transversal: On the Decolonial Discourse of Art," Co-chair with Dr. Marsha Meskimmon of session with participants Drs. Monica Juneja, Ceren Ozpinar, Agostinho Pinnock, Wenny Teo for conference attendees College Art Association Panel Proposal, Chicago Illinois, February 16-19, 2022 Abstract The recent emphasis on the term transcultural in the discourse of art and art history raises pressing questions about the deployment of a range of terms expressing geographical, political and social forms of crossing and exchange such as transnational, trans-regional/local and transversal. None of these terms are innocent, each brings complex historical baggage; with the "national", for example, links with nation-building, transnational capital and today's version of white nationalism, and with the "cultural", historical entanglements with "racial science" and anthropological fictions of "dying cultures." And yet, the most progressive, decolonizing work in art and art's histories today explores the transformative potential through the rewriting of linear narratives and Eurocentric universals, narrating worlds created by art's complex and multi-directional transits and transpositions. This work includes trans*, feminist and queer explorations of materiality and language that undermine the patriarchal structure of institutional racism and the coloniality of gender and sexuality. This panel asks questions such as, how and why are researchers adopting the transcultural, transnational and transversal; how do these terms speak for them with relevancy and significance? Can the "trans" reference be both progressive and nefarious, maintaining the possibilities of both historical contradiction and dissent? In artistic globalization, can art researchers transcend the inevitable antagonisms of terminology, such as supplanting transnational with transcultural in the same way that transnational has tended to supplant diaspora? In destabilizing the Eurocentric language for art/art history, the ongoing resistance to patriarchal power is integral to the decolonizing processes for a globalized art discourse. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://caa.confex.com/caa/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/9103 |
Description | (Asian)(American) Interviews + Conversations with Asian American Artists Over Skype |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview with Lucia Liu, Virginia Commonwealth University, discussing Chineseness in postcolonialism, Asian authenticity, People of Color in the institution, performance art and generational identity politics, anthropology and art. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://asaminterviews.tumblr.com/post/154363544957/jane-chin-davidson |
Description | Affirmative Precarity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2015 NWSA Annual Conference: "Precarity," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 12-15, 2015 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.nwsa.org/files/NWSA%202015-Annual-Conf-Prgrm-Interactive.pdf |
Description | Cherry River, Where the Rivers Mix |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interviewer for media event focused on environmental and Native American advocacy with up to 300 people in attendance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://hyperallergic.com/458956/a-performance-in-montana-challenges-how-we-define-activist-art/ |
Description | China, EcoFeminist and Queer |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 14, 2020 Paper presentation for Transcultural Chinese Art: Queer & Feminist Perspectives panel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/6688 |
Description | Co-Chair of CAA Panel: "Re-staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?" Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Chair with co-chair Nicola Foster of College Art Association panel, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging with Margaret Winslow, April Baca, Magdalena Moskalewicz, and Dore Bowen. Part II: Methodologies, Theories, Conceptual Practice with Nicola Foster, Riva Symko, Kathryn M. Floyd, and Jane Chin Davidson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://conference.collegeart.org/programs/restaging-exhibitions-past-present-futures-part-i-curator... |
Description | Co-Chair of CAA Panel: "Re-staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?" Part II, Methodologies, Theories, Conceptual Practices |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Chair with co-chair Nicola Foster of College Art Association panels, Part II: Methodologies, Theories, Conceptual Practice with Nicola Foster, Riva Symko, Kathryn M. Floyd, and Jane Chin Davidson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://conference.collegeart.org/programs/re-staging-exhibitions-past-present-futures-part-ii-metho... |
Description | Co-Chair of CAA Panel: • "From the Globe to the Cosmos: Entangled Perspectives on the Question of Global Art and World Art" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Panel discussion at College Art Association Conference, February 2018 with Co-Chair Marsha Meskimmon and participants: Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago, Michelle Antoinette, Anne Ring Peterson, Alpesh Kantilal Patel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://conference.collegeart.org/programs/from-the-globe-to-the-cosmos-entangled-perspectives-on-th... |
Description | Convener for National Women's Studies Association Conference, "Decoloniality", Two Panels |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Convener for the NWSA panel: Performance Art and the Body: Censorship, Decolonial Practices, and Deviant Tactics, under Subtheme Five: World making and Resistant Imaginaries. The presenters for this panel are focusing on some of the most important feminist performers of the past and the present. First up is Lauren Kuryioski from Northeastern University, her paper is titled "Ana Mendieta's Self Portraits: Using Embodied Deviance to Reconfigure the Colonizing Gaze." The Cuban American, Mendieta, was a major feminist body artist working during the 1970s. Next Ayanna Dozier from McGill University explores"Remixing History and Making Worlds in the Cinematic Performance of Juliana Huxtable's There are Certain . . ." Huxtable emerges today as a leading embodiment of the black, transgendered subject in performance. And last but not least we have Maria Murphy from the University of Pennsylvania, who presents "Sounding Censorship, Censoring Sound: Karen Finley and Laurie Anderson During the Feminist Sex Wars" Finley was at the forefront of the culture wars fought during the 1980s in the domain of public funding for the arts and along with Laurie Anderson, these were the feminist models for many artists to this day. Convener for the NWSA panel Restoring Women's Place: Gender, The Land and The Environment under Subtheme One: Unsettling Settler Logics: The paper examines the role of Indigenous women in settler-colonial states in defending their Nations' waters for future generations and their fight to create new institutions for transboundary water governance informed by Indigenous ways of knowing Kelsey Leonard, McMaster University, "Water Warriors: Gendered Frontiers of Indigenous Water Security": Claudia Murphy, Independent Scholar, "Ignorance, Colonialism and the Environment--Why It Starts with Me": One of the central tenets of the environmental justice movement is that degradation of the land and its resources is simultaneously social injustice against its peoples-these two go hand in hand. Sinith Sittirak, Thammasat University, "Resisting Postcolonial Hegemonies: A Grassroots' Story of Writing and Fighting for Land rights in Thailand (1963-2004)": This research critiques politics of knowledge in the Thai women's movement through the study of a land-rights activist's archival materials. The analysis applies the frameworks of postcolonial and feminist research practice with a focus on women's life narratives in order to deconstruct the dominant knowledge production process in Thai context. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.nwsa.org/Files/Program%20PDFs/2016-NWSA-Conference-Program-Web.pdf |
Description | Cultural Differences - Staging Global Art |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | invited lecturer for Institut Castell d'Estela, Amer, Spain, October 2, 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://faberllull.cat/en/cultural-differences-staging-global-contemporary-art/ |
Description | Curatorial Impacts - the Futures of Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 12-15, 2020 Co-chair with Alpesh Kantilal Patel of session with participants Nana Adusei-Poku, Monique Fowler-Paul Kerman, Amarildo Valeriano Ajasses, Mary Ellen Strom, Amelia G. Jones |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://caa.confex.com/caa/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/5110 |
Description | Global exhibitions and theorizing Chineseness |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Invited to present a workshop as the ESRC fellow cultural theory specialist - visiting professor. Information was circulated to students based on the ESRC title. The seminar was only open to masters students. MA students requested further information. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
Description | Guest Speaker, (Asian) (American): Conversations Across the Diaspora |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | (Asian) (American): Conversations Across the Diaspora is the first iteration of a series of group conversations featuring artists and art administrators whose experiences are influenced by Asian diasporic origins. It is a branch project based on the Asian American (AsAm) interview series that I have been working on since September 2015. Topics covered will include (but are not limited to): what it means to be AsAm in the art world and in society now, AsAm assimilation-as-colonization and anti-blackness, the intersection of various 'categories' of AsAm (East, Southeast, and (lack of) South Asian) in these conversations and in art spaces, and the intersection of AsAm identity with gender, sexuality, class, able-bodiedness, etc. and how these characteristics all affect the experience of being AsAm. Sunday, February 7th, 5-7pm EST: Jane Chin Davidson Thinh Nguyen Takahiro Yamamoto |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Nadja in Asian American Studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Contemporary Art, Embodied Mediations, and Queer Transnational Flâneurie panel, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Evanston, Illinois, April 23-25, 2015 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://aaastudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-Complete-Exhibitor-Form.pdf |
Description | National Women's Studies Association, Women of Color Leadership Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The National Women's Studies Association's Women of Color Leadership Project provides mentorship and training for women's studies faculty. The WoCLP is designed to increase the number of women of color students and faculty within the field of women's studies and women's centers and, consequently, to have an impact on the levels of participation and power by women of color in the field of women's studies and women's centers, in NWSA, and in the Program Administration and Development and Women's Center Committees - women of color in women's studies, ethnic studies, or related fields may apply if they aspire to leadership within women's studies or NWSA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.nwsa.org/woclp |
Description | Panel Discussion: Inner Space, Global Matter: Recording From the Structures Within : Geraldine Ondrizek |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A compelling cross-disciplinary panel discussion, Intersections of Art, Science and Technology, to launch this exhibition. Panelists included: Geraldine Ondrizek, Amy Lampazzi, Mathematics lecturer at UHCL; Darrin Leleux, Engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center; and Kevin Phillips, Assistant Professor in the Genomic Medicine and Diabetes Research Programs at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute. Outcome was a recording of panel discussion made available online. Also published in a blog |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psbIUUwKryc&feature=youtu.be |
Description | Panel discussion on photographing Asian dance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Colloquium convened by Alessandra Lopez who also curated the accompanying exhibition "Asian dance theatre: performance through the lens", Brunei Gallery and Khalili Lecture Theatre Foyer, 21st Jan - 21 March 2009 The website broadcast of the panel discussants enabled worldwide attendance to the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
URL | http://www.soas.ac.uk/media-studies/events/28feb2009-panel-discussion-on-photographing-asian-dance-t... |
Description | Research Network for Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art (ReNet MoCoCA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | The International Research Network for Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art (ReNet MoCoCA) - launched in March 2015 - is conceived to address the needs of the growing, divers, and globally scattered academic community in this field. It helps to bridge communicational and informational gaps that result from local institutional confines of projects, departments, and universities as well as culturally diverging schools of thoughts. It provides a means to overcome existent disciplinary, ideological, and epistemologically grounded boundaries that mark the global community of academics researching modern and contemporary Chinese art. A particular concern of the network is to encourage and facilitate a shared dialogue between scholars who are educated and active in the People's Republic of China and scholars from other regions of the world. Important to the networks self-understanding is that members are interested in a broad heuristic definition of "Chinese", "China" or "Chinesness", one that encourages a critical, cross-disciplinary and broad scope of research on art(istic) and aesthetic practices, objects, concepts, agents and their (entangled) histories. These were and are often strongly affected by national, cultural and geo-political boundaries - as those constituted by the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, to name just the most common. But art works, practices and concepts as well as the agents who are related with what is called modern and contemporary Chinese art at specific places and moments in time did and do transgress governmental units more often than not. Consequently, the research activities, publications and discussions by network members deliberately include the study of socio-cultural units - such as various Chinese speaking communities and diasporas - and engage with China-related discourses of various kinds. In short, members are interested in contextualizing prevalent notions of Chinese modern and contemporary art and visual practices with a critical look into (art) historical, cultural, socio-political, economical and other relevant genealogies and do not exclude research that relates to or compares these issues with other regions, cultures, communities, and time frames. The Network presents an informal international association of junior and senior scholars (about 30 members when starting in 2015/16 and since growing steadily) who are dedicated to the research and mediation of modern and contemporary Chinese art including scholars working in institutions that are related with academic research such as museums, collections, cultural associations and centers or art magazines. The network's key concern is to facilitate international, cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional horizontal communication of early career researchers when gathering, discussing, and sharing information as well as publishing their research. The network is also dedicated to enable vertical academic exchanges particularly supported by senior members, who foster a greater institutional openness for research on Chinese modern and contemporary art and help creating career opportunities for members in the growing field. The interdisciplinary set-up of the network, which is guaranteed by the various scholarly and institutional backgrounds as well as multi-fold thematic projects of the network's members, constitutes a collective platform of diverse voices that are united in their research focus. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
URL | https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/renetmococa/2016/07/18/hello-world/ |
Description | Roundtable: Feminist Processes in Women's Studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | Dialogues: Mary Ross Taylor and Margarita Cabrera, Symposiums for Setting the Table: Preparing Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party: 30 year Anniversary Exhibition at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, March 8 and April 8, 2011 Convened members of the feminist community, leading to a series of other events |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Staging Art and Chineseness: the Politics of Transnationalism and Global Expositions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | invited speaker, College of Arts & Letters Colloquium, Robert & Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, February 18, 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Staging Chineseness: Global Exhibitions and the Avant-Garde |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | (In)Direct Speech. "Chineseness" in Contemporary Art Discourse and Practice. Art Market, Curatorial Practices and Creative Processes conference, Artistic Studies Research Centre, Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Lisbon (CIEBA/FBAUL), March 16-19, 2015 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The Art Academy: The Museum, Art History and the Art Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Panel of scholars evaluating the status of anthropology museums in the shift to global art. Panel compelled significant dialogue. Impact includes discussion of plans for publishing conference proceedings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The Coalition of the Art Association: California Public Education and the Promise of the Humanities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Panel discussion initiated platform for political action College Art Association decided to explore a task force to address questions about the coalescing force of the art association |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The Future of Cultural Institutions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | KNOWLEDGE AND DISSEMINATION Cultural institutions around the world see how the circumstances and spaces that created them and that make sense of them change. Culture changes and the world changes, the audiences and the knowledge they want to transmit change and the distances between spectators and producers change. Everything changes, as does the legitimacy and authority of those who can decide how knowledge is shared because the identity of those who can say it changes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://faberllull.cat/en/project/jane-chin-davidson/ |
Description | The Trans of Gender and Race in Visuality |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked many questions and significant discussion afterwards After the talk, positive feedback expressed on twitter as well as by audience members. Invitation was extended to collaborate with Gender and Sexuality department at California State University, San Bernardino |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The Transnational Artistic Process |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Live Art and Performance in History and the Politics of Inclusion, invited panelist with Amelia Jones, McGill University, Alpesh Patel, Florida International University, Meiling Cheng, University of Southern California, Jacek Kolasinski, Florida International University, Sanaz Razi, University of Leeds, Marin Blaževic (Croatia). 2012 Performance Studies International (PSi) Conference, University of Leeds, UK, June 27- July 1, 2012 Presentation initiated dialogue after and beyond After the presentation, developed the research for publication |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | What Can Contemporary Art Do to Push Acceptance Along Culture and Gender Spectrums? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker presenting my contribution and relationship to contemporary art and my thoughts on what today's art can do to express heterogeneity and plural realities of our times, especially in regard to gender issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.occca.org/2016-05-Panel.html |