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

计划中的研究网络建立在首席研究员和合作研究员对东亚流散艺术、后殖民艺术史、边界图像和当代艺术中的台湾身份的研究和教学追求的基础上。该计划将致力于加强研究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，跨学科和跨机构的对话，主题是中国艺术和设计中的边境经济。网络的核心成员包括私家侦探，国立成功大学合作机构的主要人员- Dr Ming Turner（C.I.）;嘉逸画廊-中国当代艺术中心（CFCCA）主任李光-香港理工大学及社区博物馆计划（CMP）主任及策展人Sarah Fisher，萧景中教授及主任：以及当代中国艺术及边界研究领域的国际知名学者，包括：来自曼彻斯特城市大学MIRIAD的Jim Aulich教授和来自诺丁汉大学的Paul Gladston教授。虽然其他学术和文化研究活动都集中在中国和其他大陆与戏剧有关的边境口岸（见www.bordercrossings.org.uk），该研究网络将在2012年10月25日至26日期间，通过与性别问题相关的研究（见http：//shass.mit.edu/news/news-2012-symposium-launches-research-initiative-citizenship-identity-borders），探讨与中国和中国岛屿的跨国艺术和设计实践相关的中国边界这一适时话题。研究将特别侧重于贸易、机会和政治背景的经济因素，借鉴艺术品和展览，如http://leapleapleap.com/2011/04/border-crossings/。关于边界的当代艺术史项目往往侧重于民族身份的问题，这些问题往往被框定在“土著”文化身份如何应对由于跨越民族或种族边界的运动而产生的新形式的文化“混杂”。这种方法限制了研究重点的文化历史，后殖民话语的元素和/或与其他身份政治的交叉点的审问。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，但通过社会经济的透镜，根据中国“一国两制”（OCTS）安排中的政治和企业差异，锚定艺术实践和身份形成的艺术和策展经验。它旨在创建一个关于大中华地区艺术和设计实践的新数据库，其中包括考虑OCTS对艺术家的社会经济影响。研究成果将包括：网上艺术家数据库，以及基于网络实验室讨论的学术论文和演讲。为了充分探索海外艺术家交流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的一系列学术、公共部门和独立合作伙伴，大中华区和新加坡的专业知识和其他经验的人，从而从事多种方法的研究作为实践。这将有助于提高每个合作地点进行的大中华区艺术和设计研究的广度和质量，同时产生协作发现。该网络包括面向公众的组织，旨在使本地和国际社区参与该网络在曼彻斯特（英国），香港（中国）-台南（台湾）的周边活动，形成一个网络机构，为知识交流开发新的可能性。

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.