Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium

Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium, 24th October 2019 at the Ashmolean Museum
Celebrating the opening of the Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum a symposium with experts from the Ashmolean, the University of Oxford, eminent art historians, as well as the artist himself was held on the 24th of October 2019.
Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957, Quanzhou, China) is, is an internationally established artist who has lived, worked and exhibited around the world. He is best known as the Director of Visual and Special Effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he treated awestruck viewers to possibly the greatest fireworks show in history. His practice ranges over painting and drawing, video, installation and performance.
Please Note: Not all talks in the conference were filmed.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Conference Programme	Conference Programme for the conference.	Conference Programme	17 January, 2020
Art History and Museum as Medium	Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist, gives the eighth and final presentation in the symposium.	Cai Guo-Qiang	13 January, 2020
In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii	Jerome Neutres, Independent Curator, gives the seventh talk in the symposium.	Jerome Neutres	13 January, 2020
Cai Guo-Qiang: In Search of El Greco	Saul Nelson, Ruskin School of Art, DPhil Candidate, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium.	Saul Nelson	13 January, 2020
Yi 羿 - Myth: Shooting the Suns	Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium.	Paul Bevan	13 January, 2020
Two Gunpowder Drawings and Cai Guo-Qiang in Japan	Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, gives the fourth presentation in the symposium.	Lena Fritsch	13 January, 2020
Cai Guo-Qiang and the Depths of Spectacle	David Taylor, University of Oxford, Associate Professor of English, gives the third presentation in the symposium.	David Taylor	13 January, 2020
Context and Influence in Cai Guo-Qiang's Work	David Eliott, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Vice Director and Senior Curator, gives the second talk for the symposium.	David Eliott	13 January, 2020
Welcome and Introduction	Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art and Exhibition Curator, gives the first talk in the symposium.	Shelagh Vainker	13 January, 2020

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