On 2nd November a China / UK Arts meeting will take place in London, hosted by Birkbeck College, London. This will be a day-long event in which artists from different disciplines, academics, arts producers and representatives of institutions will come together and look at artistic exchange between the two countries and their diasporas. This will be the first meeting of what is planned as an ongoing network and the focus will be upon artistic residencies. This can be viewed from both directions as British artists working in China and Chinese artists working in the UK.
There is still some limited space for presenters to talk about and or present the results of residencies (20 minutes max). Presentations in Mandarin or Cantonese are possible as translation will be available. Topics to be addressed can include but are not restricted to:
How are residencies set up?
What are the challenges and opportunities that are encountered when working in the other culture's context?
What sort of work is made and how is it received?
What effect does the residency have upon the long-term artistic practice?
How can artistic exchange be encouraged and practically enabled?
Please send proposals (500 words max) to Bill Aitchison email info@billaitchison.co.uk by September 06th.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer a fee but all presenters will gain free entrance to the full day which will be ticketed for all others.
Note: China is here considered as both the broad Chinese speaking world (so as to include Singapore for instance) and the nation state so as to include all ethnicities and languages within PRC.
This will be the first of a series of meetings designed to stimulate ideas and discussion and consolidate UK and Chinese arts networks. Further events will take place in 2014.
