Culture, Capital and Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the twenty first century (CCC:VCB)

拟议的研究网络建立在首席调查员和合作调查员对东亚散居艺术、后殖民艺术史、边疆形象和当代艺术中台湾人身份的研究和教学追求的基础上。该计划将致力于加强调查人员通过亚洲三年展曼彻斯特和其他策展项目建立的联系和经验，方法是启动和巩固关于中国艺术和设计边境口岸经济学主题的跨国、跨学科和跨机构对话。该网络的核心成员将包括私人投资者、国立成功大学伙伴机构的主要工作人员-明特纳博士(C.I.)；香港理工大学及社区博物馆项目总监兼吕培仪馆长李嘉欣，教授兼总监萧景钟，以及当代中国艺术和边疆研究领域的国际重要学者，包括：MIRIAD、曼彻斯特都会大学(MMU)的欧里奇教授和诺丁汉大学的保罗·格拉斯顿教授。虽然其他学术和文化研究项目主要关注中国和其他大陆上与戏剧有关的跨境问题(见www.bordersings.cross org.uk)，性别(见http://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2012-symposium-launches-research-initiative-citizenship-identity-borders)，)这个研究网络将询问与中国和中国岛屿的跨国艺术和设计实践有关的中国边界的及时话题。研究将特别侧重于贸易、机会和政治背景等经济因素，借鉴艺术品和展览，如http://leapleapleap.com/2011/04/border-crossings/.与边界有关的当代艺术历史项目倾向于关注国家认同问题，这些问题往往被框定为“土著”文化身份如何应对由于跨越国家或种族边界而产生的新形式的文化“混合”。这些方法将研究的重点限制在对文化史、后殖民话语要素和/或与其他身份政治的交集的询问上。这个网络将进一步考虑中国、台湾和香港之间的这种字面和隐喻的文化边界，但通过社会经济的视角，固定艺术实践和身份形成的艺术和策展经验，并结合中国的“一国两制”安排中的政治和企业差异。它的目的是为跨越中国边界的艺术和设计实践这一主题创建一个新的数据体系，其中包括OCTS对艺术家的社会经济影响的考虑。研究成果将包括：在线知识库上的艺术家数据库和基于网络实验室讨论的学术书面和口头论文。为了全面探讨OCTS对艺术家和中国策展人的文化和经济实践的影响，该网络旨在整合来自英国、大中华区中国和新加坡的一系列学术、公共部门和独立合作伙伴，他们在这一主题上具有专业知识和其他经验，从而将多种研究方法结合起来作为实践。这将有益于在每个合作伙伴网站上开展的关于大中国艺术和设计的研究的广度和质量，同时产生合作成果。该网络包括面向公众的组织，旨在在曼彻斯特(英国)、香港(中国)和台南(台湾)等地的网络周边活动中接触当地和国际社区，形成一个网络机构，为知识交流开辟新的可能性。

The proposed research network builds on the principal investigator's and the co-investigator's research and pedagogical pursuits into East Asian diasporic art, post colonial art history, border images and Taiwanese identities in contemporary art. The scheme would work to strengthen the investigators' links and experience established via Asia Triennial Manchester and other curatorial projects through its initiation and consolidation of a transnational, interdisciplinary and cross-institutional dialogue on the topic of the economics of Chinese border crossings in art and design. The core members of the network would include the P.I., key staff from the partner organisations of National Cheng Kung University - Dr Ming Turner (C.I.); Castlefield Gallery - Kwong Lee, director, Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) - Sarah Fisher, director and Peiyi Lu curator, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Community Museum Project (CMP), King Chung Siu, professor and director: as well as international key academics in the areas of Contemporary Chinese Art and border studies, including: Professor Jim Aulich from MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and Professor Paul Gladston from the University of Nottingham.Whilst other academic and cultural research initiatives have focused on border crossings in China and other continents in relation to theatre (see www.bordercrossings.org.uk), gender (see http://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2012-symposium-launches-research-initiative-citizenship-identity-borders), this research network will interrogate the timely topic of Chinese borders in relation to Chinese and Chinese islands' transnational art and design practices. The research would focus in particular on economic factors of trade, opportunities and political context, drawing from artworks and exhibitions such as http://leapleapleap.com/2011/04/border-crossings/. Contemporary art historical projects concerning borders tend to focus on issues of national identity that are often framed in terms of how 'indigenous' cultural identities respond to new forms of cultural 'hybridity' due to movement across national or ethnic boundaries. Such approaches restrict the research focus to the interrogation of cultural histories, elements of Post-colonial discourse and/or in relation to intersections with other identity politics. This network would further consider such literal and metaphorical cultural border crossings between China, Taiwan and Hong Kong but through a socio-economic lens, anchoring artistic and curatorial experiences of art practice and identity formations in terms of the political and entrepreneurial differences within China's 'one country, two systems' (OCTS) arrangement. It aims to create a new body of data on the topic of art and design practice across Greater China borders which includes considerations of the socio-economic impact which OCTS has upon the artist. The research outputs would include: an artists database on an online repository and scholarly written and spoken papers based on discussions held at the networking laboratories.In order to fully probe the impact of OCTS across borders upon the cultural and economic practices of artists and Chinese curators, the network aims to integrate a range of academic, public sector and independent partners from the UK, Greater China and Singapore who have expertise and other experience on the subject, thus engaging with multiple approaches to the research as practice. This would work to benefit the breadth and quality of research concerning art and design in Greater China produced at each partner site, whilst producing collaborative findings. Including organisations which are public facing, the network aims to engage localised as well as international communities within the surrounding activities of the network in the locations of: Manchester (UK), Hong Kong (China) - Tainan (Taiwan), forming a networking body which would develop new possibilities for knowledge exchange.