Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium
By Oxford University
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Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium, 24th October 2019 at the Ashmolean Museum Celebrating the opening of the Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum a symposium with experts from the Ashmolean, the University of Oxford, eminent art historians, as well as the artist himself was held on the 24th of October 2019. Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) is, is an internationally established artist who has lived, worked and exhibited around the world. He is best known as the Director of Visual and Special Effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he treated awestruck viewers to possibly the greatest fireworks show in history. His practice ranges over painting and drawing, video, installation and performance. Please Note: Not all talks in the conference were filmed.
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Conference Programme (Other Resource) | Conference Programme for the conference. | 17 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoArt History and Museum as Medium | Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist, gives the eighth and final presentation in the symposium. Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) is, quite literally, one of the world’s most ground-breaking artists. He is best known as the Director of Visual and Special Effe | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoIn the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii | Jerome Neutres, Independent Curator, gives the seventh talk in the symposium. Jerome Neutres is an independent curator, who earlier in 2019 curated the exhibition In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. H | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoCai Guo-Qiang: In Search of El Greco | Saul Nelson, Ruskin School of Art, DPhil Candidate, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium. The talk will be considering Cai's work of that title in the exhibition in the light of affinities between his work and El Greco's, arguing that both arti | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoYi 羿 - Myth: Shooting the Suns | Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium. Arrows, fire, and gunpowder were all central to the art of war in pre-modern China and aspects concerning these will be briefly introduc | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoTwo Gunpowder Drawings and Cai Guo-Qiang in Japan | Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, gives the fourth presentation in the symposium. Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum, working on exhibitions, displays and acquisitions | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoCai Guo-Qiang and the Depths of Spectacle | David Taylor, University of Oxford, Associate Professor of English, gives the third presentation in the symposium. In this paper I'll suggest some of the ways in which Cai's art, and his explosion events especially, counters a tradition of critical and | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoContext and Influence in Cai Guo-Qiang's Work | David Eliott, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Vice Director and Senior Curator, gives the second talk for the symposium. Abstract: Beginning with the context of Shanghai in the late 1970s- early '80s where Cai Guo-Qiang studied, I will c | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoWelcome and Introduction | Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art and Exhibition Curator, gives the first talk in the symposium. | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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