Highlights
On 11 October, 2018, the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture launched the catalogue 'The Geoff Raby Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art' curated by Dr Damian Smith about Dr Geoff Raby’s thirty-year collection of contemporary Chinese art.
ACIAC research fellow, Dr Kiu-wai Chu was invited to an international workshop on “Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China” in Castasegna, Switzerland in October, 2018.
Ms Yuan Liu, current Coordinator of VisAsia, came to ACIAC to speak to Master of Chinese Cultural Relations students about her experience of working in a cultural organization in Sydney.
On 22 September, 2018, the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture(ACIAC) opened a special community exhibition of artworks by five distinguished Chinese Australian artists in Sydney.
On 30 August, 2018, ACIAC’s founding Director, Professor Jocelyn Chey participated in a Public Forum hosted by ABC Radio National to discuss the future of relations between Australia and China.
On 28 August, 2018, the CEO of Ausfeng Group, Dr Robert Feng and two of his colleagues, Cindy Xin and Shadow Li, visited ACIAC for a workshop with ACIAC's first cohort of Master’s students in Chinese Cultural Relations.
In contemporary China, art is booming with the fast arrival of new waves of young artists. On 20 August, 2018, three award-winning young artists from China, Li Jun (李军), Lu Hui (卢辉) and Chen Jun (陈俊), were in ACIAC for a visit and a workshop.
On 17 August, 2018, Dr Dingkun Wang, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, visited ACIAC and did a seminar talk on Chinese Fansubbers.
On 20 July, 2018, ACIAC hosted a welcome reception for its first cohort of Master of Chinese Cultural Relations students.
In June 2018, ACIAC’s research fellow Dr Kiu-wai Chu attended two conferences on Anthropocene Studies.
