With the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art (CFCCA, Manchester), the Transcultural Exchange and Networks research strand of the Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement (CREATURE) will host "Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads: Institutional Art Archives" on 4 March 2021 from 12:00 - 14:00 GMT.
"Multicultural Art Institutions at the Crossroads" is a project seeking to understand the ways in which cultural policy impact on the operation of creative labour, organisations and artistic production in the building of and sustaining multicultural heritage. How do multicultural art organisations express, build and maintain cultural heritage from their represented communities? Who are their stakeholders and what are the challenges in serving their, at times, conflicting motivations? What is the role of institutional archive in the build-up and extenuation of artistic expression of cultural heritage? Where do artists/creative labour situate in the developmental journey of these organisations against the backdrop of funding pressure, organisational survival, and the shifting political and socio-cultural landscape?
This webinar is the first in a two part series of panel discussions with art/cultural policymakers, art practitioners and professionals, and academic researchers, articulating the role and challenges of institutional archive as an active agency for memory that expresses and sustains multicultural heritage through contemporary visual art. The panel will include John Tain (Head of Research, Asia Art Archive), Dr Alda Terracciano (Honorary Research Fellow and Co-leader of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, UCL), Marianna Tsionki (Senior curator, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art), Katie Waring (Manager, Archive and Library, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art), and Leung Chi Wo (co-founder of Para/Site and Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong).
Price: Free registration at the website below