Para Site is pleased to present a series of summer public programmes comprising of gallery tours, a film screening, and an artist talk taking place alongside That Has Been, and May Be Again, our current exhibition curated by Leo Li Chen and Wu Mo.
The public tours, taking place over 3 Saturdays and hosted by the co-curators Leo Li Chen and Wu Mo, will provide insight behind the research of the exhibition and selection of artworks and artists.
PUBLIC TOURS
Saturday, July 23, 3pm
Hosted by Wu Mo
(Mandarin)
Saturday, August 6, 3pm
Hosted by Leo Li Chen and Wu Mo
(English)
Sunday, August 21, 3pm
Hosted by Leo Li Chen
(Mandarin)
About That Has Been, and May Be Again
The exhibition draws the attention to the collective anxiety and unease in China of the 1990s, following the failure of the student movement in 1989. This period in China appears on the surface to be “fractured”, with previous experiences, political, economic, and everyday, gradually losing their significance. Contemporary artists, who had rapidly accomplished their modernistic transformation in the 1980s, had to seek or create brand new experiences. In the process, the forces of globalization and the internal discussions around “modernism/post-modernism” shaped the tensions connected to the production, mobilization, and institutionalization of art.
