About this Event
The 2nd CCVA PhD Student Forum will be held on July 5, 2024, at the School of Art, Birmingham City University. PhD students and recent graduates from several universities in the UK, Europe, and Asia will share their research on contemporary Chinese art, design, and visual culture.
The 2nd CCVA PhD Forum Programme
Date: 5th July 2024
Venue: Lecture Theatre, School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BX, UK
09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Welcome Speech (Professor Jiang Jiehong)
Panel One: Representation and Narratives in Chinese Media and Art
10:15-10:30 Shuyuan ZHANG (University of Bristol)
Noir and "documentary": Mainland China Television Crime Dramas from the late 1990s to early 2000s
10:30-10:45 Yizhi CHEN (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David)
Artist’s Self-representation through Avatars in the Social Media Age: An Exploration of the Chinese Millennial Artist Artwork
10:45-11:00 Yanxi WU (University of Salford)
An Investigation of Online Exhibition for Contemporary Art: A case study of works from China in Northwest England
11:00-11:30 Panel Discussion
Panel Two: Visual Narratives in Chinese Contemporary Photography and Art
11:30-11:45 Ziyi REN (University of the Arts London)
The Implicit Representation of Death in Contemporary Chinese Photography
11:45-12:00 Rachel SEAH (Birmingham City University)
The Eroticised Image of the Chinese Female Body in 21st Century Private Photography in China
12:00-12:15 Yang ZHOU (Birmingham City University)
Reimagining Garden Space: Understanding Hidden Narratives of Chinese Literati Gardens through Contemporary Art
12:15-12:45 Panel Discussion
12:45-13:30 Lunch Break
Panel Three： Posthuman and Digital Representations in Chinese Contemporary Art
13:30-13:45 Tian YANG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hong Kong Posthuman Art: On the Transversal Media of Screens of Post-Human Narratives
13:45-14:00 Yishun LI (King’s College London)
A Posthuman Rhapsody: The Queer Corporeality and Subjectivity in Lu Yang’s The Great Adventure of Material World – Game Film
14:00-14:15 Yiyang CHEN (The Glasgow School of Art)
Image as Data: Investigating Pleasure as a Feminist Intervention in Painting Practice
14:15-14:45 Panel Discussion
Panel Four: Historical and Cultural Transitions in Chinese Contemporary Art
14:45-15:00 Funa YE (University College London)
Chinese Folk Art in Transition: Cultural Symbolism, Academization, and Resistance from 1949
15:00-15:15 Huiyu ZHAO (Durham University)
Learning Art from the Soviet Union: the transmission and adaption of Soviet art style in China in the early 1950
15:15-15:30 Nanke NING (University of Salford)
Understanding Cultural employment and work in the Chinese Art Sector
15:00-15:30 Panel Discussion
15:30-15:45 Break
Panel 5: Contemporary Chinese Art and Diaspora
15:30-15:45 Chenchen ZHU (University of Amsterdam)
Mobility, precarity, cross-border network-building, and artworks of young diasporic Chinese artists in Amsterdam and Paris
15:45- 16:00 Charlotte YAO (University of the Arts London)
Speaking the Unspeakable: Chinese diasporic feminist narration in resistance to the patriarchal home/homeland
16:00-16:15 Chang LIU (University of Birmingham)
Xinzhuang: Everyday and Extraordinary Experiences in Beijing's Migrant Art Community
16:15-16:45 Panel Discussion
16:45-17:00 Closing Remarks
17:00 Exhibition Tour
About the Event
In response to the increase of doctoral projects in the field of Chinese arts, design, media, and visual culture, the CCVA PhD Forum is designed as a UK-wide platform to support PhD students further, enhance intellectual exchanges of ideas and critical debates, expand the participation of young generation scholars, and celebrate our achievement of up-to-date doctoral research. As a summer event to complement our winter conference, the CCVA PhD Forum aims to provide a unique space for all students within and beyond the UK, who are conducting doctoral research, new PhDs (awarded within 12 months), as well as for supervisors, advisors, and examiners, and those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the future, to share, debate and innovate.
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices and theoretical studies. Following the 15-year success of our CCVA Annual Conference, which invites researchers, curators, artists, designers, and practitioners at all stages of their careers to share the latest research development on the theme proposed each year, we launch the First CCVA PhD Forum.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
B3 3BX, Lecture Theatre, School of Art, Birmingham, United Kingdom
GBP 40.00
