HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe exhibition,\u00a0A Journal of the Plague Year<\/i>,\u00a0originally responded to disparate narratives of 2003 in Hong Kong\u2014the SARS epidemic, the first arrivals of mainland Chinese on individual tourist visas, and the beginning of the democracy movement, as well as the death of pop culture figure and pan-Asian icon Leslie Cheung, the exhibition traced the fears of disease and fears of other people, both colonial and recent, and the political and pop-cultural watersheds that have shaped Hong Kong identity in the years since. These themes have come back with renewed strength in the recent months of the COVID-19 crisis, with a similar profile of fear grappling our collective imagination. For this special Pacific Coast presentation, curators Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero will focus on the 2015 version of\u00a0A Journal of the Plague Year\u00a0<\/i>held at Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco.\u00a0As noted in the press release for San Francisco version of the exhibition:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nCalifornia and San Francisco were deeply affected by the Western world\u2019s anti-Chinese immigration prejudices, through the history of Chinese immigration in relation to the Gold Rush, the 19th-century railway construction in the Western United States, and the subsequent Chinese Exclusion Act. These events make this exhibition highly relevant in a context that has not entirely moved beyond the stereotypes of its past centuries, even as it finds itself ever more deeply entangled in an emerging Asia-Pacific geopolitics of power.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nWhile held in the United States, the questions raised in the exhibition are also highly relevant to the parallel histories of immigration, exclusion, and heightened xenophobia on Canada\u2019s West Coast, as exemplified by recent acts of violence and intimidation perpetrated against members of the Chinese Canadian community in B.C.<\/span><\/p>\nThe talk will be followed up by a written response by\u00a0Nanaimo-raised and Los Angeles-based artist Charlotte Zhang, which will be published by Pacific Crossings at a later date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nInti Guerrero<\/strong>\u00a0(b. 1983, Colombia) is The Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London since 2016, and Artistic Director of Bellas Artes Projects, Manila since 2018. He was Chief Curator of the 38th EVA International \u2013 Ireland\u2019s Biennial, Limerick (2018), Guest Curator of Dakar Biennale 2018 \u2013 La Biennale de l\u2019Art africain contemporain-DAK\u2019ART, Dakar (2018), and Artistic Director of TEOR\/\u00e9Tica, San Jose (2011-2014).<\/span><\/p>\nCosmin Costinas<\/strong> (b. 1982, Romania) is the Executive Director\/Curator of Para Site,\u00a0Hong Kong since 2011, and Artistic Director of Kathmandu Triennale 2020. He was a Guest Curator of Dakar Biennale 2018 \u2013 La Biennale de l\u2019Art africain contemporain-DAK\u2019ART, Dakar (2018), Guest Curator at the Dhaka Art Summit \u201918 (2018); Co-curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), Curator of BAK-basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2008-2011), Co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010), and Editor of documenta 12 Magazines, documenta 12, Kassel (2005\u20132007).\u00a0He co-authored the novel Philip (2007) and has edited and contributed his writing to numerous books, magazines, and exhibition catalogues and has taught and lectured at different universities, art academies, and institutions across the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nFor information about PART II and PART III, please visit centrea.org\/pacific-crossings<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join us for “Revisiting A Journal of the Plague Year on the Eastern Pacific Coast”, an online talk and Q & A with curators Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 7 PM PST (Vancouver local time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8150,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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