'Beyond: 2nd Guangzhou Triennial', curated by Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich-Obrist and Guo Xiaoyan, opened at the Guangdong Museum of Art on 18 November 2005.
In conjunction with this exhibition, a one-day symposium entitled 'Trading Places: Cultural Imaginaries of the Pearl River Delta' was held in Hong Kong on 21 November at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, organized by the Art School of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and co-presented by the AAA and Guangdong Museum of Art.
Orchestrated by Dr Matthew Turner, 'Trading Places' was an event that asked questions about the shifting cultural images of contemporary Hong Kong and Macau, as their unique cultures increasingly blend into the flux of the dynamic and occasionally troubling new entity of the Pearl River Delta. The following themes were set to prompt dialogues at various sessions of the symposium.
- 200-Mile-long City: By 2013, continuous development may join the cities of the Pearl River Delta together into one metropolis; what are the cultural imaginaries of this urban hyper-growth?
- Asserting Culture: How do artists imagine, and creative industries 'brand', culture in the Pearl River Delta, which, like Hong Kong, was once viewed as containing little of cultural value?
- Troubled Icons: Do the contested 'iconic' cultural developments in Hong Kong and Macau reflect a renewed sense of identity or anxiety at possible absorption within the greater Pearl River Delta?
- Competing Imaginaries: Apart from the hyperbole of official promotion, how do we visualize the alternative reality of many unequal, conflicted cultural identities within the Pearl River Delta?
A post-event publication was published in 2007.
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Speaker Dr Matthew Turner. |
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Speaker Chan Koon-chung (Photo courtesy Liu Wai-tong). |
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Hou Hanru. |
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Speaker Dr Desmond Hui (Photo courtesy Liu Wai-tong). |
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Speakers Laurent Gutierrez and Chen Tong. |
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Speaker Frank Lei. |
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Speaker Hu Fang. |
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Speaker May Fung (Photo courtesy Liu Wai-tong). |
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