Apr 16
Conference "Visualising Chinese Borders" Manchester
Beccy Kennedy and Ming Turner are the organizers and conveners of this conference. My paper was about my 'China' project and residency in Chongqing.
After the conference Beccy and Ming send the contributors the following e-mail: "Thank you for attending and contributing towards last week's conference. There was a rich variety of presentations, which communicated some very interesting research and artistic practices and persepctives. Much of the research was very current, both in its political context and in terms of the creative practice that many of you are producing within this climate. It was a pleasure to be party to your ideas and your oeuvres.
I felt there was a great atmosphere at the conference, thanks to everyone's co-operation, discussion and good humour. Also, thank you for bearing with the fairly fluid approach I took to the timings of the two days. I wanted to try allowing some leeway in terms of the lengths of papers, as I have often found in the past that speakers and organisers alike can get quite angry when papers run over or when speakers are stopped before they reach the end of their paper and that this can affect the overall atmosphere. Also, Enoch decided to do a performance on the second day, which responded to the conference itself. This was quite impromptu but it worked well as a humourous and insightful response to the two days and it encouraged a kind of mindful winding down of it. Thanks to Enoch for coming over from Hong Kong to do his pop-up solo show 'Inhere' and for engaging us with his performance piece. Thanks also to Ying Tan and Zoe for allowing us to visit the CFCCA between shows and during the evening.
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Ming and I will discuss the publication of the conference proceedings, as we have been approached by two potential publishers. We will write to you about this in due course. Secondly, there has been some discussion of writing a larger but more focused funding bid around the subject. I have been awarded a mini research sabbatical to work on a connected curatorial project plan, but there were also other discussions at the conference concerning collaborations for writing a bid around areas of the topic, so let us know if you have any thoughts or suggestions.
After the conference Beccy and Ming send the contributors the following e-mail: "Thank you for attending and contributing towards last week's conference. There was a rich variety of presentations, which communicated some very interesting research and artistic practices and persepctives. Much of the research was very current, both in its political context and in terms of the creative practice that many of you are producing within this climate. It was a pleasure to be party to your ideas and your oeuvres.
I felt there was a great atmosphere at the conference, thanks to everyone's co-operation, discussion and good humour. Also, thank you for bearing with the fairly fluid approach I took to the timings of the two days. I wanted to try allowing some leeway in terms of the lengths of papers, as I have often found in the past that speakers and organisers alike can get quite angry when papers run over or when speakers are stopped before they reach the end of their paper and that this can affect the overall atmosphere. Also, Enoch decided to do a performance on the second day, which responded to the conference itself. This was quite impromptu but it worked well as a humourous and insightful response to the two days and it encouraged a kind of mindful winding down of it. Thanks to Enoch for coming over from Hong Kong to do his pop-up solo show 'Inhere' and for engaging us with his performance piece. Thanks also to Ying Tan and Zoe for allowing us to visit the CFCCA between shows and during the evening.
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Ming and I will discuss the publication of the conference proceedings, as we have been approached by two potential publishers. We will write to you about this in due course. Secondly, there has been some discussion of writing a larger but more focused funding bid around the subject. I have been awarded a mini research sabbatical to work on a connected curatorial project plan, but there were also other discussions at the conference concerning collaborations for writing a bid around areas of the topic, so let us know if you have any thoughts or suggestions.