(de)Tour with Dr Els van Dongen (Belgium/Singapore) Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

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Title

(de)Tour with Dr Els van Dongen (Belgium/Singapore) Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Description

5 Jul 2017, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road

What can be glimpsed from Ulrike Ottinger’s images of China in the transitional period following the Cultural Revolution? Dr van Dongen will discuss the images through the lens of the changing economic, social, and cultural fabric of 1980s and 1990s China. Apart from reflecting on what we can gain from placing the images in their historical context, the presentation will also explore various other layers of the relation between art and history.

A public programme of Ulrike Ottinger: China. The Arts – The People: Photographs and Films from the 1980s and 1990s.

Date

2017-07-05

Contributor

Els van Dongen

Coverage

Asia

Audience

General

Programme Item Type Metadata

Short Description

Dr van Dongen will discuss the images through the lens of the changing economic, social, and cultural fabric of 1980s and 1990s China.

Programme Type

Talk and Lecture

Audience

General

Programme Series

Exhibition (de)Tour

Location

Onsite (CCA)

Collaboration

No

Commissioned Work

No

Collection

Programmes

Citation

“(de)Tour with Dr Els van Dongen (Belgium/Singapore) Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed March 15, 2025, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/2367.