{"id":6130,"date":"2013-02-26T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2013-02-26T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:56:38","slug":"transnational-dialogues-across-china-and-europe-a-bilingual-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/transnational-dialogues-across-china-and-europe-a-bilingual-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Dialogues across China and Europe: A Bilingual Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6131\" alt=\"At Zaijia_Cecilia_ok\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/At-Zaijia_Cecilia_ok-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"686\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Luigi Galimberti Faussone<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout 2011 and 2012, European Alternatives had been running the Transnational Dialogues,\u00a0<strong>an exchange project between Europe and China involving young artists, curators, researchers and intellectuals from all cultural fields.<\/strong>\u00a0The activities included numerous transnational camps and research tours, the staging of artistic interventions in urban settings, instigating a great number of video-interviews with Chinese and European cultural figures, and maintaining a blog, which is now accessible along with several videos, photos and articles on the project&#8217;s website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transnationaldialogues.eu\/\">www.transnationaldialogues.eu\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5aJK79QZy3c\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Concept<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The issues at stake were many and all quite sensitive. Economic development, labour conditions, civil rights, democracy, freedom of expression, urbanization, the state and the market, public space,\u00a0<em>commons<\/em>, independent art spaces, the role of the artist, etc. Anyone familiar with the Chinese context knows the frustration which originates from openly discussing such issues in depth. In order to avoid a likely stalemate,<strong>\u00a0the discussion moved from the halls of academia to the studios of visual artists, where art itself became a common ground for everyone to exchange their views and develop new thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xizhimen_Wang-Shuo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6132\" alt=\"xizhimen_Wang Shuo\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xizhimen_Wang-Shuo-1024x315.jpg\" width=\"784\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>herefore, we took art as a language, and yet further, the artist as a privileged interpreter of society and as a powerful impetus for change. The ultimate goal of this project was that of\u00a0<strong>looking at China as if it were a special mirror<\/strong>, through which we can gain a better understanding of the European present and possible future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6133 alignright\" alt=\"Robin_Cecilia_ok\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Robin_Cecilia_ok-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>The Transnational Dialogues Journal collects the contributions of all participants of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transnationaldialogues.eu\/news\/2012\/common-grounds-transnational-research-caravan\/\"><strong>Transnational Research Caravan\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(Luigi Galimberti Faussone, Lonneke van Heugten, Lorenzo Marsili, Niccol\u00f2 Milanese, S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Pruvot, Robin Resch, Mike Watson and You Mi), as well as some of the people that had held an active role in supporting the Caravan&#8217;s journey (Zandie Brockett, Lu Xinghua, Ni Kun, Alessandro Rolandi, Wang Shuo and Yang Shu) or those who had been actively involved in other activities of related to the project, such as curator Boliang Shen, who was part of a group of Chinese artists and curators whom toured Italy in May 2012 (see<a href=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/2012\/dont-forget-space-chinese-contemporary-art-at-transeuropa-festival-2012\/%5d,\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0)\u00a0and artist Adeline de Monseignat, who participated in the conclusive trip across Shanghai and Beijing in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html#0\/2404451\" height=\"374\" width=\"525\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>From the Caravan, the Journal has taken the three main research topics, each with a distinct section, which constitutes its focus:\u00a0<strong>Commons &amp; Independent spaces; Urbanisation &amp; Occupation; Role of the artist &amp; Education through art.<\/strong>\u00a0Each section is divided into four episodes: an introduction, which gives the background of the topic and highlights the most relevant issues; two reflections, which elaborate on some of the most significant aspects of the topic; an action, which shows examples of artistic practices related to the topic; an extra, which tells about other related activities within the same project. The main language of the publication is English, but two articles per section, both by Chinese and European authors, have been given in translation in order to promote the circulation of the journal to a Chinese audience.<\/div>\n<p><strong>The publication is freely accessible and downloadable (<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vm0369.cs05.seeweb.it\/images\/article_uploads\/Transnational%20Dialogues%20Journal_WEB.pdf\">in PDF format<\/a><\/strong><strong>). \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Luigi Galimberti Faussone The Project Throughout 2011 and 2012, European Alternatives had been running the Transnational Dialogues,\u00a0an exchange project between Europe and China involving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transeuropa-network"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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