Chongqing Project. Installation of 11 works comprising of sculpture and mapping
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-CWD2
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- The Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China; China Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Wood undertook a five-week British Council supported residency at Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China, during which he examined the rapidly evolving cultural and economic rebalancing of the relationship between East and West. The research was Informed by the comparative study of social development outlined by Ian Morris (Why The West Rules-For Now) and by the cultural analysis of China with reference to Martin Jacques (2012), When China Rules the World. Wood incorporated sound recording, video, notetaking, photography, drawing and sculpture into this intense period, utilising a studio space provided on campus and wider psycho-geographic journeys within the city and its environs. Wood’s subsequent work is informed by his extensive interaction with the students and staff at SFAI, the local Chinese population and by extensive travel and fieldwork in Chinese classical and historical cultural sites. The works are informed by and located within the current rebalancing of the cultural, political and economic contexts. All outputs seek to elucidate these unprecedented changes through the re-examination of very humble materials and assemblages. These micro/macro works engage with our contemporary reassessment of colonialism and the precarity of imperial structures and concomitant gender entitlement. The project developed a range of research outputs: The Transplant Series, comprising an array of male jackets precariously supported by very slender bamboo poles; the New Maps Borders Series about the formation of communities or nascent states on the boundaries between existing countries, often as the result of migration due to war, climate change, or economic hardship. It also generated an interactive wallpaper exhibition Frame in China and the student exchange exhibitions outreach projects, affording both personal research and inter-institutional twinning. Dissemination: Bang Bang – Welsh Contemporary Art in Chongqing (2015), The Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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