Why photography matters as contemporary art? A post conceptual point of view
Lecturer : Chi-Ming Lin︱Prof and Chair, NTUE
Time : August 30, 2014, Saturday, 14: 30-17: 00
Venue : TFAM Auditorium
The lecture is conducted in Chinese.
Synopsis
1. Starting with Sugimoto
2. Cindy Sherman and the photography-cinema
3. The development of Jeff Wall
4. Conceptual art and the photography
5. Post-conceptual practice
6. Centered on one piece: Picture for Women, 1979
7. Picture generation
8. Reference to Manet
9. Mirror and surface
10. Cinematographic
11. Theoretical diagram
12. Taking and using
13. Heterotopias
14. Displaying and desiring
15. Art-Photography
Further reading
Michael Fried, Why photography matters as art as never before, New Haven: Yale UP, 2008.
David Campany, Jeff Wall: Picture for Women, London: Afterall Books, 2011.
Chi-Ming Lin was born in 1965 in Taichung, Taiwan. He has studied in Paris and received a doctoral degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1999. Now professor and chair at the Department of Arts and Design of National Taipei University of Education, he specializes in image studies, French contemporary thought, cross-disciplinary art studies, and aesthetics. His papers and articles have been widely published in journals, exhibition catalogues and books of collected essays, and the books he has authored include the recent Multiple and Tension: On History of Photography and Photographic Portrait (Taipei: Garden City, 2013). He is also a translator of European philosophers including: Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu and François Jullien. In recent years Lin has curated such exhibitions as “Le Festin de Chun-te” for MOCA Taipei at the 2011 Venice Biennale (with Dominique Païni), and “Jean Baudrillard: Photography and Passwords” at Hong-gah Museum, Taipei in 2014.
About Lecture Series 2014 “(Art) After Conceptual Art”
Do you want to know the story of how a urinal became art? Did you know your home can become a museum? Everyone can be an artist – would you like to be one? These secrets are revealed in the lecture series “(Art) After Conceptual Art”...“(Art) After Conceptual Art” explores the major trends and forms of expression in avant-garde art since the 1960s. By examining the processes of specific contemporary art phenomena, the lecture series provides an organized introduction to the conceptual idioms arising from the recent rapid developments in contemporary art, serving as a reference for viewers to appreciate contemporary art.