Join us for a conversation marking the release of Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008, a new bilingual publication co-published by Asia Art Archive and Tai Kwun Contemporary.
📅 Date and Time: May 13, 2026 (Wednesday) ⏰ 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Venue: Asia Art Archive Library
The publication presents twelve essays by leading curators, critics, and scholars alongside entries on eighty-five artists, offering one of the most substantial attempts to map contemporary art in China through the social, cultural, and political transformations since 2008. Combining critical writing and archival research, the book situates artistic practice within wider cultural and social shifts that are still being negotiated.
Bringing together the five editors involved in shaping the volume, this conversation will reflect on what it means to assemble a publication of this scale: how a recent and rapidly shifting art history is framed, what kinds of works and narratives come to stand for a period, and how editorial, curatorial, and archival perspectives intersect in the writing of the present.
Image: Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008. Provided by hesign.
Speakers:
Pi Li (Founding Director, Róng Museum of Art)
Ying Kwok (Senior Curator, Tai Kwun)
Daniel Szehin Ho (Executive Editor, CONG)
Anthony Yung (Head of Research & Archives, Asia Art Archive)
Huang Wenlong (De Ying Project Researcher, Asia Art Archive)
Since 2000, AAA has been committed to collecting, digitising, and activating archival materials, research documentation, and library collections concerning recent art in China. This publication project not only marks a significant collaboration with Tai Kwun Contemporary but also serves as a critical starting point for AAA to map out future research trajectories. It enables AAA to deepen its engagement with archives of contemporary art practices after 2008, with a particular focus on the complexities and possibilities presented by the digital era.
Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008 is made possible by the generous support for research by the De Ying Foundation and for production by Hawk HE – Octone Foundation.
Dr Pi Li is Founding Director of Róng Museum of Art. He was Head of Art at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2023–26), the Sigg Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at M+ (2012–23). He previously served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Art Administration Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (2001–12).
Ying Kwok is the Senior Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary. Prior to her role at Tai Kwun, she worked as an independent curator from 2013 to 2021. Throughout her career, Kwok has worked with a diverse range of art and cultural institutions locally and internationally, from artists’ initiatives and art festivals to public museums and the commercial sector. She continuously synthesises different art forms in contemporary visual art, from site-specific commissions and performances to film and video. Before embarking on her freelancing career, Kwok was the curator at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, UK, between 2006 and 2012.
Daniel Szehin Ho is the Executive Editor of CONG, a journal published by Serakai Studio that explores ideas, art, and urban imagination across East and Southeast Asia. Previously, he was Editor-in-Chief of Ran Dian, a bilingual magazine based in Shanghai that critically engaged with contemporary art in China. Later, he joined Tai Kwun as Senior Editor, leading the publications programme at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2017–24), where he also co-founded and directed BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair, a key platform for independent publishing.
Anthony Yung is Head of Research & Archives at Asia Art Archive
Huang Wenlong is the De Ying Project Researcher at Asia Art Archive
Image: Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008. Provided by hesign.
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