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Transmediating Traditions in China and Beyond
With a focus on visual culture, the workshop highlights the process of transmediation (moving from one form to another) in order to foster engagements with cultural production that are especially attentive to the dialectic between formal constraints and creative intervention. How much of form can be carried across media, and what might transmediation suggest about the dis/continuity of ‘tradition’? Our geographic/cultural focus is ‘China and beyond’. This is a deliberately fuzzy space, which aims at maximum inclusiveness. Many things – funding for this workshop, for example – hinge on aligning one’s research with existing disciplinary boundaries. Our view is that one can accept this reality without taking the boundaries all that seriously. Inhabiting the middle ranges of agency ourselves, we would like to honour one of the chief aims of critique – opening up boundaries – while acknowledging the existing institutional limits which constrict just how far and in what direction they can be opened. In addition, a focus on ‘China’ allows for the net to be cast more widely in other areas: any kind of visual artwork, any direction of transmediation, any time period. The workshop will touch on the following forms and more: avant-garde cyber poetry, calligraphy, clothes, digitised opera, film, gardens, picture books, video-tapes.
Date:
1 March 2024, 10:00
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organiser:
William Beswick (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
aoife.cantrill@manchester.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Orchard
