Shanghai Art Histories: Cracked Open

Event Time: Wednesday, 16 March, 2011, 7 pm
Location: No. 5 on the Bund, 20 Guangdong Road, by Zhongshan Dong Yi

The 2011 Shanghai International Literary Festival begins on March 4, kicking off three weeks of readings, discussions, debates, workshops and literary lunches.

Shanghai Art Histories – Cracked Open with Xhingyu Chen, Biljana Ciric, and Zhao Chuan, organized and moderated by Defne Ayas will take place Wednesday, March 16. The group will take a look back at the recent history of contemporary art production in Shanghai and an exploration of the writing and recording of artistic histories: what’s included, what’s excluded, how are the nuances distilled and who becomes the authorized narrators?

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