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Market Buildings

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Manchester, M4 1EU

T - +44 (0)161 832 7271

E - [email protected]

W - www.cfcca.org.uk

Twitter - @CFCCA_UK

Facebook - Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art

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Mission

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Registered charity (UK) 518992 Limited Company 2137427

Mission

Leading the UK in exploring the Chinese Century

through contemporary art

• Supporting audiences to learn more about

Chinese contemporary culture

• Supporting emerging artists to develop their

practice

• Raising the profile and supporting the evolution of

Chinese contemporary art as a discipline

(research)

Strategic objectives

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Strategic Objectives

Programme excellence: to originate, present and promote exceptional

contemporary art exploring Chinese culture in the Chinese Century in

partnership with national and international partners.

International: to originate national and international partnerships which

strengthen UK links with East Asia and promote talent development,

innovation and exchange.

Engagement: to use Chinese contemporary art and culture to create

meaningful encounters between artists, audiences and participants;

exploring creativity and ideas to facilitate social and personal change and

to sustain and build audiences.

Research: to research and exchange ideas on Chinese contemporary art

and Chinese culture, shaping trans-cultural debate in the Chinese Century.

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How will we achieve this?

• Exhibitions

• Engagement

• Residencies

• Research

Exhibitions

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• Associate Curators across Taiwan, China and

Hong Kong to strengthen and inform our

understanding of developments in East Asia

• Gallery 1 – Solo exhibitions of artists from

Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

• Gallery 2 - Artists from outside Taiwan, China

and Hong Kong who look at diaspora

• Partnership working – across galleries both

nationally and internationally

Exhibitions

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We work with Associate Curators across

Taiwan, China and Hong Kong to

strengthen and inform our understanding of

developments in East Asia

Gallery 1 – Solo exhibitions of artists from

Taiwan, Hong Kong and China

Gallery 2 - Artists from outside Taiwan,

China and Hong Kong who look at

diaspora

Partnership working – across galleries both

nationally and internationally

Case study – Harmonious Society

天下無事26 Sept - 23 Nov 2014

Market Buildings

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Manchester, M4 1EU

T - +44 (0)161 832 7271



Twitter - @CFCCA_UK


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Luxury Logico, Solar

Chen Chieh-Jen, still from Realm of

Reverberations, 2014

Yao Jui–Chung, Long, Long Live, 2012

Yang Zhenzhong, Long Live the Great Unity, 2011

Liu Jianhua, The Boxing Age, 2002

Zhao Yao, new

commission, 2014

Wang Yuyang, Breathing series, 2013-present

Li Wei, I am here, 2014

Leung Chi Wo, No politics today!, 2014

Annie Wan Lai-Kuen, Lost In Biliterate and Trilingual, 2014

Harmonious

Society

International

Workshops:

TCAC Taipei,

Shanghai,

Hong Kong,

Beijing,

Manchester

Residencies

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Manchester, M4 1EU

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Twitter - @CFCCA_UK


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Market Buildings

Thomas Street

Manchester, M4 1EU

T - +44 (0)161 832 7271



Twitter - @CFCCA_UK


Weibo - CFCCA



• Purpose-built studio and living space

• 3 month duration

• Develop practice in international environment

• Artist exchange

• Establishing key relationships with art

institutions internationally

• Treasure Hill artists village / K11 Art

Foundation / Artist Pension Trust / Taipei

Contemporary Art Centre

Residencies

Research

Market Buildings

Thomas Street

Manchester, M4 1EU

T - +44 (0)161 832 7271



Twitter - @CFCCA_UK


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Research

• Developing CFCCA as a site for useful research

• Unique position to further the subject of Chinese

Contemporary visual practice

• Developing national and international conversations

about the meaning of ‘China’s Century’ and the global

shift east

• Developing stronger profile within academic circles

• Establishing a strategic approach to working with HEIs

Market Buildings

Thomas Street

Manchester, M4 1EU

T - +44 (0)161 832 7271



Twitter - @CFCCA_UK


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Research

• Chinese contemporary art network

• Archive and library

• Symposia, workshops, events

• Collaborative PhD student BCU

• MA in Curating Chinese contemporary art and

Transdisciplinary Practice

• Collaborative research project Crossing Borders

• Executive Education model RCA

• Asia Research Institute for Arts and Media

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