Curate without present

Spring 2022 – CMA seminar

Week 4 -  Zhenhua Li:  Curate without present

Time: 23rd Feb 2022 4:30PM HKT

(Title in Chinese:  远程策展)

Abstract:

I would like to share my project for 2021 in Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, where I ultimately cannot be present as a live curator ...... The distance and online media involved in projects without an artist or curator should be seen as the new normal, which completely changes the notion of presence online or offline.

我想分享我2021年在北京、深圳和香港的项目，我最终不能以策展人的身份出现在那里......。没有艺术家或策展人的项目所涉及的距离和网络媒体，应被视为新常态，这完全改变了在线或离线的存在概念。

Speaker Bio:

Li Zhenhua has been active in the artistic field since 1996, his practice mainly concerning curation, art creation, and project management. Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (Switzerland), as well as for The Prix Pictet (Switzerland). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition "Digital Revolution" at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014, etc.

Since 2000 focused on curating and dialog with filmmakers and documentary filmmakers from China, since 2004 involved in CIFF. 2015 producer of JU Anqi’s film Poet on a Business trip. 2010 curated Heat: ZHANG Yuan solo show in Nanjing, China. 2007 producer of SHEN Shaomin's documentary film I am Chinese.

Since 2003 worked as a jury in the film and arts field, such as Shorti (Span 2003), Napolis Film festival (Italy 2006), Transmediale 2010 (Berlin, Germany 2009), CCAA (Beijing, China 2012), CIFF (Nanjing, China 2012), Fantoche (Switzerland 2012), Art Award China (Beijing, China 2015-2016), 2021 KCC UK X Germany Open Call (Germany & UK 2021), DAAD: Fellows of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme 2022(Germany 2021).

Li Zhenhua has edited several artists' publications, including "Yan Lei: What I Like to Do" (Documenta13, 2012), "Hu Jieming: One Hundred Years in One Minute" (2010), "Feng Mengbo: Journey to the West" (2010), and "Yang Fudong: Dawn Mist, Separation Faith" (2009). A collection of his art reviews has been published under the title "Text" in 2013.

2016 The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of contemporary art (2015), The Regional Contemporary Art Project, INNOVATION Prize, Russia. 2015 Curator of the Year, TANC Asia Prize, Shanghai. 2015 Curator of the Year (2014), Art Power 100, Beijing.

Chinese  version can  see  at : https://www.lizhenhua.work/about

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