By Professor Paul Gladston

Conference Presentations

Gladston P, 2010, '‘Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Western and Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism’', presented at Invited Speaker, The 2nd Beijing International Forum on Chinese Contemporary Art (Contemporary Chinese Art Criticism) at the University of Beijing/Wall Art Museum (organised by Prof. James Elkins of the University of Chicago):

Gladston P, 2010, '‘Towards a Polylogue of Chinese and Western Art Criticism’', presented at Guest Speaker, The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, The University of Westminster

Gladston P, 2010, '‘Transnational Chinese Cultural Networks and the Interpretation of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at Regionalism and Social Mobilities, Shanghai (part of the Australian Research Council Project ‘Culture in Transition’)

Gladston P; Quadrio D, 2010, 'Invited Panel Member, Double Infinity: The Last Two Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited at the Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai', presented at Double Infinity: The Last Two Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art Revisited (organised by the Van Abbe Museum and ArtHub)

Gladston P, 2009, '‘Contemporary Chinese art as “Diaspora”’', presented at ‘Translating Regions: Aesthetic Movements, Labour Regimes, Cultural Geographies’, Inter-Asia cultural Typhoon, Inter-Asia cultural Typhoon at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Gladston P, 2009, '‘Curatorial Discourse and the Limits of Speech: Critical Reflections on the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism’', presented at nvited Speaker, Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Gladston P, 2008, '‘“Elusive and Vague as It Is”: The Aesthetic Hybridity of Yang Fudong’s No Snow on the Broken Bridge’', presented at Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin America, Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla, Mexico

Gladston P, 2008, '‘(W)Est – [by] Non-(W)Est: A Series of (Dislocated) Critical Reflections on the Staging of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, “Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society?"'', presented at Keynote Speaker, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society?: 7th Station of Forums in Motion of the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial at the Guandong Museum of Art, Guangzhou China

Gladston P, 2008, '‘Bloody Animals! – Violence against Animals in Contemporary Chinese Art and the Persistence of Chinese Sacrificial Culture’', presented at Invited Speaker, the Department of History of Art and Architecture; the University of Pittsburgh

Gladston P, 2008, '‘Chan-Da-da(o)-De-construction or, The Cultural (il)Logic of Contemporary Chinese “Avant-Garde” Art’', presented at Keynote Speaker, Under Construction: Strategies-Models-Links at the Zendai Museum of Art, Shanghai China

Gladston P, 2008, '‘China’s Cultural Diaspora and the Uncertain Boundaries of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at Diasporas: Cultural Transfer, University of Hong Kong

Gladston P, 2008, '‘Contemporary Chinese Visual/Urban Culture as a Site of Complex Cultural Translation’', presented at Keynote Speaker, Urban Culture and Visual Production at the China Academy of Art Hangzhou, China

Gladston P, 2007, '‘Bloody Animals! - Justifiable Criticism of Transgressive Western Art by the Chinese ‘Avant-Garde’’', presented at Crossing Cultural Boundaries, Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Gladston P, 2007, '‘Overcoming the Anxiety of Displacement Song Tao and B6’s Video Installation Yard’', presented at Invited Lecture, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China

Gladston P, 2007, '‘Representing the ‘Monster City’: the Unbearable Blandness of Song Tao and B6’s Yard’', presented at The Association of Art Historians 33rd Annual Conference, University of Belfast

Gladston P, 2007, '‘Yang Fudong and the Use(lessnes)s of Contemporary Chinese Art’', presented at The Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China; Research Seminar Series 2007-08, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Gladston P, 2006, '‘‘Three Days Ago’: Artistic Representation of the City as a Site of Population Dispersal in Contemporary China’', presented at Diasporas Workshop, Jointly held by University of Queensland, Australia/Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham:, University of Queensland, Australia

Gladston P, 2006, '‘(Un)holy Communion: Eucharistic Performativity as (An)Aesthetic Strategy in the Work of Masaccio and Duchamp’', presented at Invited Lecture, The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China

Gladston P, 2006, '‘(Un)holy Communion: Eucharistic Performativity as (An)Aesthetic Strategy in the work of Masaccio and Duchamp’', presented at Invited Lecture, Ningbo Museum of Art Ningbo, China

Gladston P, 2005, '‘(Un)holy Communion: Eucharistic Performativity as (An)Aesthetic Strategy in the work of Masaccio and Duchamp’', presented at Invited Lecture, MA in Fine Art, The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design

Gladston P, 2005, '‘Hiding in Plain Sight: The Photography of Erasmus Schroeter’', presented at Invited Speaker, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery

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