First time in China: Independent Art Critic Award
International jury announces the winner of the new CCAA initiative
A new award has been established this year by the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA), the CCAA ART CRITIC AWARD. It aims to encourage independent writing and the critical study of Chinese contemporary art by writers based in China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Participation was open to both foreign and Chinese applicants on the condition that they are based in China and not resident abroad.
Uli Sigg, Founder of CCAA, comments on the reasons for establishing the Art Critic Award: "The vibrant Chinese art scene clearly lacks sufficient independent art criticism. In times now past, this was due to a not yet differentiated art system, lack of independent media and lack of independence within these media. This situation provided insufficient resources only to sustain a career as an independent writer. In today's booming art market, art media, artist books and exhibition catalogs abound, the material conditons have improved. Yet most of this writing has to cater to the needs of a market."
The Art Critic Award wants to address this issue twofold: raise the discussion on independent art criticism, which is so essential to advance art creation in China, and to further educate the participants of this vibrant art scene. And encourage independent writing by enabling a profound research project on Chinese contemporary art that otherwise may not have found financial support.
The four members of the highly profiled international jury: Jörg Heiser (co-editor of frieze magazine, London), Xu Jiang (professor of National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou), Georg Schöllhammer (editor in chief of documenta 12, Germany, and Springerin magazine, Austria) and Yi Ying (editor in chief of World Art Magazine, Beijing) unanimously announced Pauline J. Yao the winner of this newly established Art Critic Award. The award includes a grant of 10.000 EUROS, to elaborate a paper. This paper will be published as a book. To make it available to an international audience as well, the paper will also be published in English.
The jury has stated that Pauline J. Yao's proposal to critically enquire the rapid change of artistic production modes of contemporary art in China is of particular interest for the current situation. This situation is characterized by the increase of semi-industrial productions involving the use of assistants and laborers and a seemingly growing commodification of the artwork.
Given the high quality of proposals submitted, the jury would like to include a pronounced honourable mention of Carol Yinghua Lu¹s highly original project abstract, suggesting a comparative study of Chinese conceptual art practices between the 1980s and after 2000.
A new award has been established this year by the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA), the CCAA ART CRITIC AWARD. It aims to encourage independent writing and the critical study of Chinese contemporary art by writers based in China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Participation was open to both foreign and Chinese applicants on the condition that they are based in China and not resident abroad.
Uli Sigg, Founder of CCAA, comments on the reasons for establishing the Art Critic Award: "The vibrant Chinese art scene clearly lacks sufficient independent art criticism. In times now past, this was due to a not yet differentiated art system, lack of independent media and lack of independence within these media. This situation provided insufficient resources only to sustain a career as an independent writer. In today's booming art market, art media, artist books and exhibition catalogs abound, the material conditons have improved. Yet most of this writing has to cater to the needs of a market."
The Art Critic Award wants to address this issue twofold: raise the discussion on independent art criticism, which is so essential to advance art creation in China, and to further educate the participants of this vibrant art scene. And encourage independent writing by enabling a profound research project on Chinese contemporary art that otherwise may not have found financial support.
The four members of the highly profiled international jury: Jörg Heiser (co-editor of frieze magazine, London), Xu Jiang (professor of National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou), Georg Schöllhammer (editor in chief of documenta 12, Germany, and Springerin magazine, Austria) and Yi Ying (editor in chief of World Art Magazine, Beijing) unanimously announced Pauline J. Yao the winner of this newly established Art Critic Award. The award includes a grant of 10.000 EUROS, to elaborate a paper. This paper will be published as a book. To make it available to an international audience as well, the paper will also be published in English.
The jury has stated that Pauline J. Yao's proposal to critically enquire the rapid change of artistic production modes of contemporary art in China is of particular interest for the current situation. This situation is characterized by the increase of semi-industrial productions involving the use of assistants and laborers and a seemingly growing commodification of the artwork.
Given the high quality of proposals submitted, the jury would like to include a pronounced honourable mention of Carol Yinghua Lu¹s highly original project abstract, suggesting a comparative study of Chinese conceptual art practices between the 1980s and after 2000.
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