CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 50634237
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- University of Dundee
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- ‘Current’ represents Hao’s development of a curatorial approach and framework that has underpinned four phases of research, resulting in the programming outputs across international venues from 2014 – 2020. Hao’s conceptual framework commences with dialogue and exchange, bringing different perspectives to contemporary and cultural issues from an array of researchers, curators, artists and audiences. The outputs, which include the generation and analysis of primary source material, result in a conceptual and critical focus to curation and exhibition-making, and an extensive multi-component exhibition programme.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘CURRENT: Contemporary Art From Scotland’
(2014 - 2020) is a large-scale international
curatorial collaboration with major organisations
in China, funded by Creative Scotland, British
Council, Scottish Government and Shanghai
International Culture Association.
Adopting Roland Barthes’s aphorism ‘the
contemporary is the untimely’ as its maxim,
Hao’s curatorial methodology interrogates artistic
practice as a process of the contemporary and
its multiple iterations as culture and social realities
within a transnational context. The intention of
‘CURRENT’ was developed in dialogue with
Chinese critic Wang Nanming over a one-year
research period.
Curated by Hao as a four-phase exhibition,
artists-in-residence programme and events
programme at multiple venues in China and the
UK, ‘CURRENT’ is the largest presentation to date
in China of contemporary art made in Scotland,
foregrounding critical engagement in grassroots
politics and their social and political contexts.
The outcomes feature over 40 established and
emerging artists in 6 newly commissioned solo
exhibitions and 2 group survey exhibitions.
‘CURRENT’ also presented a group exhibition of
seminal British Artists’ video works of the 1970s
and 1980s, selected from the Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art & Design REWIND archive alongside
a group exhibition of recent artists’ moving image
works made in Scotland, FFWD, selected in
collaboration with Modern Edinburgh Film School
and choreographed as a juxtaposition of the histories
and current conditions of artists’ video/moving
image practice, with their connections, overlaps
and synchronicities.
Three phases of ‘CURRENT’ took place at Shanghai
Himalayas Museum, Shanghai Minsheng Art
Museum, Beijing Red Brick Art Museum and K11
Art Foundation, with two subsequent exhibitions
and a symposium at Cooper Gallery. ‘CURRENT’
garnered over 100 reviews in national media, art
press, and academic journals in China and the UK.
The project was funded from a range of competitive
sources, totalling £175,700.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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