‘SINOPTICON’
13 April 2012
National Trust’s Saltram House, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth College of Art Gallery, Plymouth.

A new multi-sited exhibition featuring the work of 13 international contemporary artists, including new residencies and commissions will open in Plymouth in April 2012.The exhibition is being produced in partnership with National Trust’s Saltram House, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth College of Art Gallery.

SINOPTICON (2010-2013) is a long-term project investigating ideas and themes of a contemporary chinoiserie in contemporary art. The 18th century term, ‘chinoiserie’, arose from the mania for Chinese artefacts that erupted in the seventeenth century transforming taste and aesthetics in the West forever. Now China is back, upsurging as a country of major economic and political impact – and with it a new wave of chinoiserie for the twenty-first century. SINOPTICON looks at chinoiserie afresh in the context of contemporary art and incorporates design, display, desire and frippery alongside politics and trade, authorship, interpretation and cultural misunderstanding, fantasy, escapism and fiction. SINOPTICON includes an extensive research and development phase, a symposium, residencies, new commissions and a touring exhibition. Devised by Gayle Chong Kwan, Eliza Gluckman, Stephanie Douet  www.sinopticon.org

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29.11.11 Artist’s Talk, London College of Communications

 

10am – 1pm Tuesday 29th November 2011
Photography Department, London College of Communications, University of the Arts London

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Artist in Residence, Mottisfont, National Trust

 

I stayed my first night as Artist-in-Residence at Mottisfont last night, amazing atmosphere in the grounds and house and so many volunteers and staff generously sharing their stories and experiences of this unique place with me.  I have been invited to be Artist in Residence at Mottisfont from October 2011 – June 2012, where I will be spending time with staff and volunteers as well as the local community and developing work in response to the Rex Whistler tromp l’oeil wallpaper and Derek Hill Art Collection. Mottisfont, National Trust

 

 
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Sinopticon: Contemporary Chinoiserie in Contemporary Art

 

2010-2013
SINOPTICON is a long-term project investigating ideas and themes of a contemporary chinoiserie in contemporary art. The 18th century term, ‘chinoiserie’, arose from the mania for Chinese artefacts that erupted in the seventeenth century transforming taste and aesthetics in the West forever. Now China is back, upsurging as a country of major economic and political impact – and with it a new wave of chinoiserie for the twenty-first century. SINOPTICON looks at chinoiserie afresh in the context of contemporary art and incorporates design, display, desire and frippery alongside politics and trade, authorship, interpretation and cultural misunderstanding, fantasy, escapism and fiction. SINOPTICON includes an extensive research and development phase, a symposium, residencies, new commissions and a touring exhibition. Devised by Gayle Chong Kwan, Eliza Gluckman, Stephanie Douet  www.sinopticon.org

April 2012, Launch of SINOPTICON exhibition, Plymouth
A new multi-sited exhibition featuring the work of 13 international contemporary artists, including new residencies and commissions will open in Plymouth in April 2012.The exhibition is being produced in partnership with National Trust’s Saltram House, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Plymouth College of Art Gallery.

13 – 29 January 2011, BREATHE Residency at CAC, Gayle Chong Kwan and Stephanie Douet

January 2011, China Through a Looking Glass, Friday Lates at the V&A

12 October 2010, SINOPTICON Symposium  , V&A, London
The symposium reflects on and investigates an idea of contemporary chinoiserie, bringing historical themes, issues and ideas surrounding chinoiserie into a contemporary context; politics & trade, authorship, interpretation & cultural misunderstanding, fantasy, escapism and fiction and frippery & design. V&A_sinopticonevent

 

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Publications to Buy

 



 ‘THE OBSIDIAN ISLE’, 2011
Designed and published by Gayle Chong Kwan and Graphical House
ISBN 978-0-9565200-3
Limited edition 500

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