From left: Li Xinmo, Xiao Lu, Jiny Lan
Feminism in the World Pattern – 2012 Beijing Chinese and Foreign Critics Forum
Location: Iberia Contemporary Art Center, 798 Art District, Beijing
Time: March 4, 2012
Morning: 10:45AM – 12:30PM
Host: Juan Xu (Curator of “Bald Girl”, Art critic), Didi Tatlow (New York Times reporter).
Guests: Tong Yujie ( Associate Researcher, Art Research Institute, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts Academic Committee Member, Art critic)，Sandra Miranda Pattin ( Italian Artist, Curator), Zhu Qingsheng (Professor of Beijing University), Jin Weihong (Editor-in-chief of “Painting Magazine”), Shao Yiyang (Professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts).
1) Is feminism a false proposition in China? – The current situation of Chinese feminist art. (Tong Yujie) 15 minutes.
2) From Abramovic to the development of Western feminist art. (Sandra Miranda Pattin) 15 minutes.
3) The exhaustion of feminist art. ( Jin Weihong ) 15 minutes.
4) Why do female artists dare not admit their identity? (Dialogue between “Bald Girls” arists and audience)
Host: Tong Yujie (Associate Researcher, Art Research Institute, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts Academic Committee Member, Art critic), Didi Tatlow (New York Times reporter).
Guests: Hang Jian (Professor of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts), Fan Popo (film producer), Yang Zi (Curator).
1) The current situation and development of Chinese queer art. (Yang Zi) 15 minutes.
2) Queer politics in Chinese video art. (Fan Popo) 15 minutes.
3) What is Bald Girls? Dialogue with Xiao Lu, Li Xinmo, and Lan Jing. (Open forum, invite audience to participate in the discussion).
Left; Christa Stolle (President of the German Women’s Rights Association). Right; Didi Tatlow (New York Times reporter)
Afternoon 13:45PM – 18:00PM
Host: Juan Xu (Curator of “Bald Girls”, art critic), Didi Tatlow (New York Times reporter).
Guests: Christa Stolle (President of the German Women’s Rights Association), Feng Yuan (Head of the Anti-Domestic Violence Association), Isolda Morillo (Associated Press reporter).
1) The 1968 feminist movement in Germany and the current second wave of feminist movement in the West. (Christa Stolle) 20 minutes.
2) Gender discrimination in China: Feng Yuan and Christa Stolle in dialogue. (Open Forum)
Guests: Lü Pin (Founder of China Women’s Voice e-newspaper, Chinese feminist). Xu Yun (Head of the Forum of Civil Society Organizations). Song Meiya (Senior editor of China Women’s News). Zhang Hongping (Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Arts). Wang Hongqi (Chairman of the China Women’s Promotion Committee).
Why is women’s rights still a taboo in China? – Does China need to experience a local feminist movement from top to bottom similar to the 1960s and 1970s in the West? (Open Forum).
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