Dong Son – Art talk #9: Biennale as Structure

Sat 13 Dec, 7pm
3rd floor, Galaxy building 10D Ly Nam De, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

Dong Son Today Foundation invites to lecture on Biennale as Structure by Mr John Clark, FAHA, CIHA, professor in Art History at the University of Sydney and founding director of the Australian Centre for Asian Art & Archaeology.

Among his books are Modern Asian Art (Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 1998), the co-edited Eye of the Beholder (Sydney, Wild Peony, 2006), Modernities of Chinese Art (in submission, 2008) and Modernities compared: Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980s and 1990s (in press, Sydney, Power Publications 2009)

From 2004-2006 he has been working on the new Biennales in Asia under an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for which a book draft Biennales and Contemporary Asian Art: Histories of the Asian ‘New’ is now in submission. In 2008-2012 he will be working on a new comparative study of ‘The Asian Modern’ under an ARC Professorial Fellowship.