In this online symposium, the speakers will reflect on questions of art and social media and the Hong Kong "art diaspora", before and after 2019. The discussion will revolve around Hong Kong’s art history since the 19th Century, the contemporary situation of Hong Kong art and artists abroad, and, in particular, artist Justin Wong's Daily Wish series and Hong Kong Book series.
This event is organized and hosted by Global Hong Kong Studies at the University of California.
About the Event
Comic Artist, Former Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University
Justin Wong is a London-based comics artist with more than ten years of experience in the industry. He started his illustrious career as a political cartoonist and editorial illustrator in 2007 and gained recognition for his daily political cartoon column, Gei Gei Gaak Gaak, which was first published in the popular Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao.
Wong has authored several graphic novels, including Lonely Planet, Hello World, That City, New Hong Kong, Big Time, and Je préfèrerais ne, which have been published in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and France. In addition to his contributions to the world of comics, Wong served also as an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include generative comics and the political cartoon movement in Hong Kong.
Images: Courtesy of Justin Wong. Instagram:@littlepinkman
Abby’s other curatorial ventures include Moment For Ink, challenging nationalism and sexism in traditional Chinese painting. The exhibition opened in various sites including Asian Art Museum, San Francisco State University, and traveled to Zhejiang Art Museum in China. She curated and loaned her exhibition to Yerba Buena Center For the Arts and Museum of Chinese in America in New York.
Abby was the National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Summer Scholar. She holds a Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies.
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[Symposium] Daily Wish: Hong Kong Artists in the World
About the Speakers
Justin Chiu-tat Wong
Abby Chen
Head of Contemporary Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
In December 2019, Abby Chen was appointed the Head of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum. Chen manages the museum’s contemporary art team, oversees an expanding contemporary art program, and forges partnerships with local and international artists. Prior to this, Chen was the Curator and Artistic Director at the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco where she transforms the organization into an open and process-driven platform for contemporary art practice. She initiated the Xian Rui/Fresharp Artist Excellence Series since 2008, the first of its kind supporting mid-career artists of Chinese descent in US. In 2010, she organized the Gender Identity Symposium, a multi-city forum in Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai, followed by the 2011 exhibition WOMEN我們 (Shanghai, San Francisco, and Miami). Her most recent project is social-practice based experiments with artists including Lam Tung-pang, Summer Meiling Lee, and Xu Tan.
About the Host
Winnie Wong
Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Winnie Wong is a historian of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, frauds, copies, counterfeits, and other non-art challenges to authorship and originality. Her research is based in the southern Chinese cities of Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and her writing engages with Chinese and Western aesthetics, anthropology, intellectual property law, and popular culture.
She is the author of Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade (University of Chicago Press, 2014), which was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize in 2015. Her articles have appeared in positions: asia critiques, the Journal of Visual Culture, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and she has written for Omagiu, Third Text Asia, and Artforum. Her work has been translated into Portuguese, Romanian, and Japanese. Her research has been supported with grants from the ACLS, SSRC, CLIR, Harvard Milton Fund, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
As Senior Fellow at Dartmouth College, Winnie wrote an undergraduate thesis on public space and public protest in Hong Kong. She received her SMArchS and PhD in History, Theory and Criticism from MIT. She was elected a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows (2010-2013). She is currently an associate professor of Rhetoric and History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Speakers:
Justin Wong Chiu-tat, Comic Artist, Former Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University
Abby Chen, Head of Contemporary Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Discussant & Host:
Winnie Wong, Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Art History, University of California, Berkeley