DEPT OF FINE ARTS



Researcher : Chan YY

List of Research Outputs

Chan Y.Y., Dream, Pilgrimage and Dragons in the Kegon Engi Emaki (Illustrated Legends of the Kegon Patriarchs): Reading Ideology in Kamakura Buddhist Narrative Scrolls. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Clarke DJ

Project Title:Hong Kong in transition: a photo-documentary project
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:Fine Arts
Source(s) of Funding:Other Funding Scheme
Start Date:12/1994
Abstract:
To create an archive of photo-documentary images documenting and analyzing aspects of cultural and other changes taking place in the period before and after the transfer of sovereignty.


Project Title:Water and art
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:Fine Arts
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2004
Abstract:
To look at various episodes from different cultures where water becomes significant (or even in a sense problematic) in the history of art.


Project Title:A Visual Analysis of Contemporary Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Clarke DJ
Department:Fine Arts
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:09/2005
Abstract:
The primary purpose of this project is to create visual artworks of a photographic nature, and to create a second-order artwork from those photographs which will take the form of a book. Artists' books are now an established medium of output for visual artists, especially photographers, and the aesthetic work of assembling a photographic sequence of book length is analogous in nature to the task of editing a movie. While many of the photos I am producing for this project can stand alone as independent artworks, others will find their meaning only within the book as a whole (rather as an individual shot within a movie may lack meaning until incorporated into the movie montage as a whole). The book will have a meaning which is more than the sum of its individual constituent parts, and will thus be more than a matter of publishing of existing artworks. A secondary purpose is to make a contribution to Hong Kong cultural studies. This will occur through the written text which will be an integral part of the book, but also (and primarily) through the photographs themselves, which are intended to have a critical or analytical dimension as well as an aesthetic one. In having this double goal in mind this project will be similar to that which gave rise to my previous photographic book 'Reclaimed Land: Hong Kong in Transition', although in this case documentary or historical values will be less to the fore. Whereas that project was a five year study this present work will be based on a very intensive one year study which has already been commenced, with over 7200 photos having already been taken. Because such a significant amount of effort has already gone into the project (artistic creativity has to operate to its own rhythms and can't wait around for the annual deadlines of research grant applications), I feel very confident about being able to bring this project to a successful completion. I have already (on the basis of work done so far) been able to gain an expression of preliminary interest in publication from HKU Press, publisher of my previous photo book and a valued first choice partner with relevant expertise for projects that focus on Hong Kong culture. Because of the non-verbal nature of the visual creative process it is hard to put into words the issues that are being struggled with in these images (I tend to subscribe to Picasso's view that art shows what artists have found rather than what they are looking for). One could mention perhaps that they address the issue of how a contemporary city and its social, political and cultural changes can be visually represented. They attempt to balance topographic and temporal specificity of reference with more purely aesthetic concerns, and are thus a critical interrogation of documentary and photojournalistic photographic languages in general, and the journalistic and tourist-imagery visual clichés about Hong Kong in particular. Whereas my previous photographic work has dealt almost exclusively with black and white this project is entirely in colour and so can be said to be investigating the role of colour in contemporary photography. One aspect of that is an examination of what colour photography can learn from painting and the use of colour in other non-photographic media. A further concern is with the image as fragment (creating images that gain their full meaning as part of a larger whole - in this case a book) and with the imaging of fragments (many of the images being produced focus on details or partial views rather than giving the illusion of having provided a well-framed whole). This project also involves an investigation of the place of subjectivity (or the foregrounding of the maker's role) within photography that wishes to engage the external world. It is also a case study of the role of images as a critical tool within academic discourse, which of course tends to be overwhelmingly logocentric and characteristically treats photographic images as raw evidence that can be used unproblematically to support textual argument rather than as a medium of argumentation itself. In cultural studies terms there is a desire to specify this particular moment in Hong Kong's post-handover history, after the 1 July 2003 mass demonstration and including the period of the first Chief Executive's resignation and replacement. This concern to specify a particular moment fits in with the micro-historical and real-time participant observer approaches of much of the more text-based research I have been involved with in recent years, and which I find particularly fruitful as a mode of critical engagement with contemporary Hong Kong culture.


List of Research Outputs

Clarke D.J., A selection of photos on the theme of music was featured, PS (Hong Kong). Hong Kong, 2005, No. 26, Summer 2005: 68-71.
Clarke D.J., Artworks exhibited, Art SUPERMART, 9-11 December 2005. Hong Kong, Para/Site Art Space, 2005.
Clarke D.J., Chitqua's English Adventure: An Eighteenth Century Source for the Study of China Coast Pidgin and Early Chinese Use of English, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics. 2005, 10, No.: 47-58.
Clarke D.J., Music and the Encounter with Cultural Difference, Art Talk (online archive version of the programme also available at http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio4/Works_for_me HKU_Arts_Talk/20060415.html). Hong Kong, Radio 4, RTHK, 2006.
Clarke D.J., Photo was featured on the website, Memory Capsule, http://www.excavation-hkfringeclub.com/capsule.htm, and in the associated memory capsule itself, buried till 2090. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Fringe Club, 2006.
Clarke D.J., Photo was featured, Oxfam Magazine. Hong Kong, 2005, No. 1, 2005.
Clarke D.J., Photos featuring at 'asia-alias', http://www.soda.ch/en/magazin/ and also texts and images are featured at www. asia-alias.net/archive/2005/07/11/427-david-clarke.html. Zurich, Switzerland, soDa Magazine, 2006.
Clarke D.J., Photos were featured, along with an artist's statement, asis-alias.net A journey through Asia. Zurich, Switzerland, soDA-magazine for visual culture, 2006, Issue No. 28.
Clarke D.J., Raining, Drowning, and Swimming: Fu Baoshi and Water, Art History. 2006, 29, No. 1: 108-144.


Researcher : Fok SHS

List of Research Outputs

Fok S.H.S., From Underground to Public Space: Performance Art in China since the Emergence of International Performance Art Festivals, Fine Arts Department Research Seminar, April 19 2006. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Koon YW

List of Research Outputs

Koon Y.W., There's no 'There' There: Su Renshan's search for Utopia in 19th century Guangdong, Fine Arts Department Research Seminar, HKU, 9 February 2006. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Kwok YN

List of Research Outputs

Kwok Y.N., Realism and the Reception of Early Nineteenth-Century Painting, Fine Arts Departmental Research Seminar, May 26 2006. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Lee JSC

List of Research Outputs

Lee J.S.C., Discussant to the symposium, History and Memory: Present Reflections on the Past to Build our Future, December 1-3 2005. Macau, Macau Ricci Institute, 2005.


Researcher : Lee SCJ

List of Research Outputs

Lee S.C.J., China Trade Paintings: 1750s to 1880s. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2005.


Researcher : Muir CD

Project Title:Saintly brides and bridegrooms: the mystic marriage in northern renaissance art
Investigator(s):Muir CD
Department:Fine Arts
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2004
Completion Date:10/2006
Abstract:
To study the visual imagery of selected male and female mystics during the Northern Renaissance, i.e. the 14th to 16th centuries, as a manifestation of certain religious attitudes and beliefs that had developed during the Middle Ages.


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Ng SMY

List of Research Outputs

Ng S.M.Y., On the Lost Paintings of Lin Fengmian (1900-1991) , Fine Arts Departmental Research Seminar, February 13 2006. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Thomas GM

Project Title:Impressionist childhood
Investigator(s):Thomas GM
Department:Fine Arts
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2003
Abstract:
To write a scholarly book about the representation of childhood and families in Impressionist painting in France during the later 19th century.


List of Research Outputs

Thomas G.M., Chair of a panel entitled “The Modern Family in Visual Culture” , College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2006. New York, 2006.
Thomas G.M., Field Editor for exhibitions in Asia, for the online journal "caa.reviews". 2005.
Thomas G.M., Renoir's Girls: Between Art and Popular Culture, Lingnan University. Hong Kong, Lingnan University, 2005.
Thomas G.M., Teaching Intercultural Interaction in the Nineteenth Century, Newsletter. Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, 2006, 1 & 29.
Thomas G.M., Women in Public: The Display of Femininity in the Parks of Paris, In: Aruna D' Souza and Tom McDonough , The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris . Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2006, 32-48.
Thomas G.M., Yuanming Yuan in France: Looting and the Translation of Chinese Art, Second annual conference of the Cross-Cultural Research Group. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Tsang WY

List of Research Outputs

Tsang W.Y., Orientalism and Jewish Imagery, Fine Arts Departmental Research Seminar, May 17 2006. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2006.


Researcher : Wan Q

List of Research Outputs

Wan Q., A Brush With Irony: Paintings by Wan Qingli . Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU, 2006, 80pp.
Wan Q., Invited Plenary Paper: "The Age of Brush and Ink Art: From Dong Qichang to Shitao", International Symposium on Dong Qichang’s Theory of Southern and Northern Schools, September 2-4, 2005. Macau, Macao Art Museum, 2005.
Wan Q., Keynote Speech: “The Transformation of Chinese Painting From the Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century”, International Symposium on Chinese Painting of later Qing and Early 20th-Century, July 18 2005. Beijing, National Art Museum of China, 2005.


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