Launch of inaugural undergraduate catalogue
14 Asias, a student-produced catalogue of critical undergraduate essays exploring issues in Asian contemporary art, will be launched Friday, November 11.
Created by students in the Department of Art History’s winter 2011 Perspectives on Asian Contemporary Art class, 14 Asias is the first exhibition catalogue written and published entirely by an undergraduate class in response to an academic exhibition.
The 14 Asias catalogue is based on an exhibition of the same name that was on display in the third floor vitrines of the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex earlier this year.
Student-curated and designed, the objective of the exhibition was to diversify the perception of contemporary Asian artists, extending the definition to artists in diasporic communities and other contexts that defied conventions.
“The past two decades have witnessed the appearance of modern and contemporary art from various Asian contexts on the international art scene,” explains professor Alice Ming Wai Jim, the seminar's instructor, in her introduction to 14 Asias.
“Yet just as there is no one Asia, there are no overarching trends binding the diverse practices, histories and geographies that fall under the heading of contemporary Asian art. 14 Asias takes this premise as its starting point.”
What: Launch of 14 Asias
When: November 11 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Where: FOFA Gallery Atrium, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.)
14 Asias was produced with support from Concordia's Department of Art History, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Fine Arts Students’ Alliance.
Related links:
• Concordia Department of Art History
• More on Alice Ming Wai Jim