Date: 9 December 2016
Time: 7pm-9pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 8, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Speakers:
Dr. Janet Marstine, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Prof. Oscar Ho, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University Hong Kong
Prof. Wang Shou Zhi, Professor, Art Centre College of Design, Pasadena, USA and Dean, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University, Guangdong, China
Abstract
As political and market pressures challenge the autonomy of the fast-growing sector of museums, galleries, artists and arts organisations in both Hong Kong and Guangdong, stakeholders have developed creative strategies to deal effectively with the twin phenomena of censorship/self-censorship. In this participatory workshop, we will collaboratively identify and analyse some of these strategies. After a brief introduction to the research Dr. Marstine and Prof. Ho have been conducting on this subject, we will work in small groups to unpack case studies and then come together to share our insights. The workshop aims to introduce an ethics framework for advocacy, guidance and decision-making in encountering challenges to freedom of expression.
About speakers
Janet Marstine is lecturer and academic director in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester where she researches new approaches to museum ethics. She is editor of the Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics (2011) and co-editor of New Directions in Museum Ethics (2012). Her monograph Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics will be published by Routledge in the fall of 2016. She currently holds a British Academy grant, in partnership with Oscar Ho at Chinese University Hong Kong, to study censorship and self-censorship in Hong Kong and Guangdong exhibition spaces. Dr. Marstine sits on the Ethics Committee of the Museums Association. From 2007-2010 she was Founding Director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University.
Oscar Ho Hing Kay specializes in the practice and critical studies of cultural management, particularly in the area of visual arts, museum management and curatorship. He was formerly Exhibition Director at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Senior Research Officer at the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, and Founding Director of Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai. He is currently Programme Director of the MA programme in Cultural Management. He has been actively engaging in curatorial practice for over two decades and have curated many exhibitions locally and internationally in Asia, Europe and North America. He has also been actively engaged in community cultural projects and is one of the pioneers in the promotion of community art. He was a member of the Museum Advisory Group for the West Kowloon Cultural District, responsible for preparing the proposal for the new museum ‘M+’, and was a member of the Consultation Panel of the West Kowloon Authority.
As a professor and scholar, Wang Shouzhi focuses his research on design history and theory. His field covers architecture, product design, graphic design, fashion, city planning, illustration and entertainment design. He published books in Chinese such as A History of Modern Architecture, A History of Modern Design, A History of Fashion, A History of Graphic Design, A History of American Illustration, Nordic White Night – A Tour of Scandinavian Design, Chinese Complex of Heart, etc. His books were widely taken as the guiding reference of Chinese different design institutions. Wang Shouzhi also works as chief design director and chief advisor of different estate companies.
Conducted in English.
All are welcome. Registration is required by 7 December 2016.
Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk
The workshop is funded by the British Academy and by the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK