Date: 1 March 2016 (Tue)
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Venue: G24, Fung King Hei Building, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Helen Grace (University of Sydney)
Online Registration: https://goo.gl/mBxM6O

Abstract:

Harry Harootunian (2004) suggests that the everyday appears as ‘a spectral precinct of time/space’ in which the shadows of other possible lives and other temporalities are lived. This presentation will focus on a cycle of recent creative works that explore everyday experience as source of transformative potential. I want to speculate on the particular viral form of the image that has the capacity to generate a more radical future, its seeds always lying dormant within the everyday.

About Speaker:

Helen GRACE obtained her BA & PhD at the University of Sydney. She established the Theoretical Studies Dept (later the Art History Department) and Postgraduate Studies Unit at University of Western Sydney, and was part of the planning team that established the Centre for Cultural Research at UWS in the late 1990s. She moved to Hong Kong in 2006, where she established the MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She moved to National Central University in Taiwan in early 2012 as Visiting Professor. She is the author of Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image (Routledge, 2014) and co-editor of Technovisuality: Cultural Reenchantment and the Experience of Technology (IB Tauris, 2015). She is an award winning filmmaker and new media producer and her most recent project is Map of Spirits, a five-channel new media work commissioned by Gallery 4A in Sydney.

Enquiry: 3943 3725 / winniechanht@cuhk.edu.hk

Conducted in English.
Registration is required by 26 February 2016. First-come, first-served.