What’s happening in China? – Prof. Justin O’Connor talking at IMA (Institute of Modern Art)

China at GOMA by justin

Culture & Globalization (Series 5) – 2.1.5

Shanghai: Retromodernity: a city of ‘other people’s dreams’ (This chapter is due to be published in 2011) This chapter will begin by looking at Shanghai as a key site for the encounter between Chinese tradition and Western Modernity; Shanghai emerges as a city in which these two complex forces are re-negotiated within a new kind [...]

The Culture and Creative Industries: A literature Review

This is a revised and extended version of Justin’s 2007 Critical Bibliography of the Culture and Creative Industries commissioned by Creative Partnership. In it, Justin provided a comprehensive historical review of the culture and creative industries with a new conclusion reflected on the fate of culture industries influenced by the new social media.

AAG 2011 Seattle (April 12-16, 2011)

Justin O’Connor and Xin Gu are attending the AAG 2011 in Seattle. Panel Session: Taking Matters into third hands: intermediaries and the organization of the creative economy Session organized by: Bas van Heur (Maastricht University) Doreen Jacob (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Abstract:    

MAO – Music, Art, Festivals and More

ART, MUSIC, FESTIVALS and MORE: official site: http://www.maolive.com/ Shanghai MAO: http://www.douban.com/host/maosh/ Beijing MAO: http://www.douban.com/host/maolivehouse/  

Cultures & Globalization Series (Volume 5)

Researchers in this project are included in the publication of the new series of Cultures & Globalization (Volume 5): Dan Hill Title: Cities and Cyberspace   Justin O’Connor and Gu Xin Title: Shanghai: Retromodernity: the City of ‘Other People’s Dreams’   Justin O’Connor Title: Manchester: Original Modern: Popular Culture as Resource

Call for papers – European Journal of Cultural Studies – Special Issue

Theme: Cultural Intermediaries in Context: Locating Identity and Practice in the Formation of Value Submission deadline: 31st Dec 2010 For more information, please refer to the website of ‘European Journal of Cultural Studies’ @ http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/by/year  

Art and Creative Industries – the Chinese debate

Art – techne – technique and technology – craft – art of war – something done well and for its own sake. Art – symbolic communication – also a technology from this angle – its origins in ritual and cult and magic. It still remains a form of technology – of symbolic communication – but [...]

M50 (Shanghai, China)

Interview in M50 Xue Song (first artist in M50): I chose here because it’s close to where I live. I wanted to find a work studio near my home. M50 used to be a factory so it offers the ideal settings as an art studio. Hou: M50 brings good karma for us, but it was [...]

1933 (Shanghai, China)

Also known as: ‘Old Millfun’ City: Shanghai  District: Hong Kou Address: Sha Jing Road, No. 29 and No. 10 Industries: Creativity as Lifestyle Consumption Management structure: -    Leaser: Shanghai Creative Industries Investment Co., Ltd; Shanghai JinJiang International Development Group. Since 2006, it becomes 1933 – ‘old millfun’. -    Landlord: since 1970, Shanghai Great Wall Biochemical-pharmaceutical [...]