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Professors John Fenn (left) and Doug Blandy (right) Last night, University of Oregon Professors Doug Blandy and John Fenn presented on this past summer’s Beijing based field school at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Blandy and Fenn spoke alongside other UO faculty, staff, and students at the JSMA whose presentations generally […] Check out how the ChinaVine Field School compares cultures and artistic practices in this recent article featured on the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts website: ChinaVine Field School Compares Cultures, Artistic Practices Previously this month, ChinaVine member Tomas Valladares and I explored San Francisco’s Chinatown, the largest Chinatown outside of Asia (as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America). During our explorations, we posted our newest ChinaVine stickers throughout the city, featuring the ChinaVine QR Code (designed by Nan Yang) that links straight to […] Jiangou Village- Red tourism A small village located near the Miaofeng Mountain 50 miles outside of Beijing, Jiangou is an emerging tourist destination. While the temples on the mountain are used by religious pilgrims, Jiangou caters to a different kind of pilgrimage, those individuals who want to feel more connected to their communist roots. Red […] […] ”Very few works speak to social problems. Chinese contemporary art doesn’t make people understand. It has lost its function and its very important social, avant-garde, and revolutionary features.”- Zhang Jianhua Zhang Jianhua is a contemporary sculptor known for being controversial. The subject of his work often involves poverty, exploitation, and death. Through his four sculptural […] […] We’ve finished the fieldwork/residency phase of the field school, and rather successfully at that! Now we move on to various locations: Shanghai, Tsingtao, other parts of Beijing, or all the way back to Oregon. We will reconvene at the beginning of August—from wherever we all are—in order to process fieldwork materials into ChinaVine content (initially […] […] The new issue of CultureWork explores the evolution of the ChinaVine project and its online interface, ChinaVine.org. ChinaVine.org site is an interpretive online space allowing for contributors from around the world to present ideas, images, and interpretations of China’s cultural heritage. In this article, faculty and former graduate students at the University of Oregon, coordinators […] […] On July 9 the UO field work team in Beijing did intensive field work today in Jianguo – food, Red tourism, rose tea, and a hike up Miaofeng mountain to the Three Temples. Lunch provided a way to experience Jianguo’s goal to be tourist destination for experiencing local meals made from local products, both wild […] […] |
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