Scene of the conference

[Abstract]  At 10 o’clock on Aug. 16, 2011, the press conference for the 4th Guangzhou Triennial started at the Lakeview Hotel in Beijing. Zhu Di, Deputy Director-General of Department of Arts, Ministry of Culture, Luo Yiping, director of Guangdong Museum of Art and Vice Chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, Jiang Jiehong and Jonathan Watkins, curators for the Theme Exhibition of the triennial, and Zhang Xudong, curator for the “Forums in Motion” program of the triennial attended the conference that was hosted by Wang Jia, News Officer for the Guangzhou Triennial. The fourth edition of the exhibition, which is scheduled to open at Guangdong Museum of Art on Sept. 22, 2011, will be different from any international biennials or triennials ever held in any other regions in the world.

 At 10 o’clock on Aug. 16, 2011, the press conference for the 4th Guangzhou Triennial started at the Lakeview Hotel in Beijing. Zhu Di, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Arts, Ministry of Culture, Luo Yiping, director of Guangdong Museum of Art and Vice Chairman of Guangdong Artists Association, Jiang Jiehong and Jonathan Watkins, curator for the Theme Exhibition of the triennial, and Zhang Xudong, curator for the “Forums in Motion” program of the triennial attended as gusts the conference that was hosted by Wang Jia, News Officer for the Guangzhou Triennial.

    The conference began with a promotion video show for jounalists from various media agencies, and was followed by speeches by Zhu Di, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Arts, Ministry of Culture, and Liang Jiang, vice director of the National Art Museum of China. Then Luo Yiping gave a specific introduction of the basic frame and theme of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial, namely, to make enquiry into the art itself by asking self-searching questions. As the chief curator for the forum program, Zhang Xudong talked about the origin of the program, as well as the theme, time, and place of each station of the “Forums in Motion”. The two curators for the Theme Exhibition, Jiang Jiehong and Jonathan Watkins, gave their own understanding of the theme-“The unseen” from different perspectives. Zhang Kexin, planner for the Inauguration Exhibition, Wan Lin, Zuo Zhengyao, and Gao Ling, planners for the Project Exhibition, and Chen Lingzhen, head of the documentary section all spoke at the conference.

    In the second part of the conference, the guests fielded questions from jounalists.

    The fourth edition of the Guangzhou Triennial will be different from any international biennials or triennials ever held in any other regions in the world. It will unfold its three parts, that is, Inauguration Exhibition, Project Exhibition, and Theme Exhibition, along the progress of the reconstruction and expansion project of the Museum. The Triennial will be a three-year long ongoing exhibition which will begin with the Inauguration Exhibition and the Triennial Forum, to be followed by a study of cases and exploration that consist of 5 project exhibitions to be held inside and outside China, and will be ended by the Theme Exhibition and the Forum.

The 4^th Guangzhou Triennial is scheduled to open at Guangdong Museum of Art on Sept. 22, 2011,

Wang Jia, News Officer for the Guangzhou Triennial, hosted the conference

Speech by Zhu Di, Deputy Director-General of Department of Arts, Ministry of Culture

Speech by Liang Jiang, vice director of the National Art Museum of China

Speech by Luo Yiping, director of Guangdong Museum of Art and Vice Chairman of Guangdong Artists Association

Speech by Zhang Xudong, Director, Literature and Art Theory Critics Center, Peking University

Speech by Jiang Jiehong, curator for the Theme Exhibition of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Speech by Jonathan Watkins, curator for the Theme Exhibition of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Speech by Zhang Kexin, curator for the Inauguration Exhibition of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Speech by Wang Lin, curator for the Project Exhibition of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Speech by Zuo Zhengyao, curator for the Project Exhibition of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Speech by Gao Ling, curator for the Project Exhibition of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Chen Lingzhen, head of the documentary section of the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial

Interview of journalist from Art China with Luo Yiping