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Iryna Shuvalova

root — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:03:40 +0000

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Iryna Shuvalova is a poet, translator, and scholar from Ukraine, currently based in Oslo, Norway. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in the US (2014) where she was a Fulbright scholar, and a PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge (2020) where she was a Gates Cambridge scholar and where she also taught Ukrainian language. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, she has lived in Greece, the UK, the US, and China before relocating to Norway in 2023. In her current role as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, she researches and teaches society, politics, and culture in Eastern Europe, as well as speaking on these issues internationally.

As of early 2024, Shuvalova authored six books of poetry, including the Ukrainian-language collections Ran (2011), Os (2014), Az (2014), and stoneorchardwoods (2020), as well as bilingual volumes Pray to the Empty Wells (in English and Ukrainian, 2019) and The Unspeakable (Niewyrażalne) (in Polish and Ukrainian, 2023). Her most recent Ukrainian-language collection stoneorchardwoods (каміньсадліс) (Lviv: Old Lion’s Publishing House, 2020) has been recognized as the poetry book of the year by Ukraine’s prominent Litakcent Prize for Literature and received the Special Prize of the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Book Award. Her new book of poems in Ukrainian titled endsongs (кінечні пісні) is scheduled to appear in print in the spring of 2024 with VSL in Lviv. She is also working on a new volume of poems to be published in Norway in 2025 as a bilingual Ukrainian-Norwegian edition, under a provisional title With No Intention of Staying (Har ikketenkt å bli). Her stay at CEAC is generously supported by the grant of Norway’s LeserSøker Bok foundation. Shuvalova’s writing has been widely anthologized and featured in periodicals in Ukraine and abroad, including Literary Hub, Modern Poetry in Translation, Words Without Borders, and many others. Her poems have been translated into twenty-nine languages, including Mandarin Chinese.

As a translator, she is known for rendering Yann Martel’s Life of Pi into Ukrainian in 2016. However, she prefers working with poetry. She has translated into Ukrainian poems of Ted Hughes, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald. In 2023, she co-translated into English, with Vitaly Chernetsky,Ukrainian poet Ostap Slyvynsky’s collection Winter King (Lost Horse Press, 2023). She has also translated into English Ukrainian modernist classics of poetry, including MykolaBazhan, PavloFylypovych, IuriiKlen, and MykolaZerov. Shuvalova’s translations appeared in Ambit, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poem, and Words Without Borders, as well as in multiple anthologies.

Shuvalova has been awarded numerous prizes for poetry and translation, including the 2010 first prize for poetry in the Smoloskyp Literary Competition – Ukraine’s most important contest for young writers, and second place in the Stephen Spender / Joseph Brodsky Prize (2012). She has supported English PEN as an expert on Ukrainian translation projects and has been a member of PEN Ukraine since 2020. She has performed her poetry internationally, at multiple readings and festivals, including the Oslo International Poetry Festival, Stockholm International Poetry Festival, and others. Shuvalova has also taken part in multiple writing residences and fellowships in China, Greece, Latvia, the UK, and more, including the Hawthornden Castle Fellowship in 2015.

She lived and worked in China for three years between 2019 and 2023: in Hangzhou, then in Nanjing. Her work has been translated into Mandarin Chinese by Sun Dong (孙冬) and was published in Jintian(今天) in 2022. She has a strong interest in Chinese culture, particularly literature, philosophy, and film. At CEAC, she will be working on her new poetry collection, focusing specifically on experiences of itinerant living and displacement. In her project “Learn to Lose”, she will explore the experience of loss as an essential component of our co-existence with people, places, and even with ourselves.When moving ahead, to something new, we are often encouraged to focus on what lies ahead instead of what is left behind, says the poet. However, what is left behind is the things that shaped us and the things we shaped, all of them jointly constituting an essential part of who the we of today – the moving-ahead-we – are.

Re/placement, dis/placement, and seeking one’s new place in the landscape and the world is at the core of the poet’s work. Her project has both a social dimension and an environmental one. On the one hand, she examines the experience of conflict that disfigures lives and landscapes alike; on the other hand, she seeks to understand the sense of being-in-the-place and of no-longer-being-in-the-place as equally valuable human experiences. As someone interested in Taoist thought and beliefs, she sees one of the key threads of this book as exploring the concept of 无为 – being carried by the flow of life and moving with it rather than constructing an elaborate scheme of interventions attempting to chart one’s course. Because many of her poems have been inspired and shaped by her experience in China, she is particularly excited about potential collaborations with Chinese visual artists – something that she hopes one day will result in a book of its own.

Gallery

Learn to Lose: Poetry & Music Performance with poet Iryna Shuvalova. Katie McCabe '21 on violin, Mac Waters 'G24 on viola, Daniel Lin '23 on cello, Eli Hecht '23 on bass, and Taylo Ho Bynum - composer & conductor.

Xie Xiuxiu

root — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:41:45 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

Mountain Archetypes and Lacquer Situations

Xie Xiuxiu
Born in Sanming, Fujian
Graduated with a Master’s Degree in Lacquer Painting from Xiamen Academy of Arts and Design, Fuzhou University
Currently based in Xiamen and Quanzhou

Lin Luanchong

root — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:38:39 +0000

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Mountain Archetypes and Lacquer Situations

Lin Luanchong
Born in 1989 in Fu’an, Fujian
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Yangtz University School of Art in 2012
Currently based in Xiamen

Michael Mackenzie

root — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:59:12 +0000

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CEAC exhibition

COMMENTS: Declaration of Love / Campaign of Hate

Michael Mackenzie is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic, who creates visual art, makes films and writes screenplays and novels. He has travelled extensively and lived in many parts of the world. His paintings, drawings, and video art have been exhibited throughout Australia, China and Japan. Michael currently works for the Institute of Creativity and Innovation within Xiamen University. He has just completed a new novel.

Thomas C. Chung

root — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:31:23 +0000

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Thomas C. Chung

CEAC exhibition

“The Sea That Stands Before Me…”

Thomas C. Chung is a Chinese-Australian artist based in Melbourne. In 2004, Chung completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. He is studying for his Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy degree in Melbourne.

In the last decade, he has represented Australia at the 2nd Land Art Biennial in Mongolia, 4th Ghetto Biennale in Haiti, 9th Shiryaevo Biennale in Russia, 1st Karachi Biennale in Pakistan, and The APS Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale in Malta. His recent exhibitions have included The 48th Rio Tinto & QAL Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards 2023, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Australia; Drift Arts Festival, The Quarantine Station, Australia; Arte Laguna 2023, Arsenal Nord, Italy; STAGES: Life in Lockdown, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia; Lucca Art Fair, Real Collegio, Italy; Future Ready: Survival Now + Next, Anchorage Museum, Alaska.

Chung’s past decade has seen him being awarded selected residencies to Kemijärvi (Finland), Gothenburg (Sweden), Drammen (Norway), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Zürich (Switzerland), Hohenstein (Germany), Sapporo (Japan) and Xiamen (China). His work is included in public collections of Dexus (Melbourne, Australia); The Swatch Group (Biel, Switzerland); Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, China), National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow, Russia); Sofia Arsenal Museum for Contemporary Art (Sofia, Bulgaria); Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia); and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Seoul, South Korea), as well as various private collections in Australia and internationally.

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875 – 1961)

Kimball Holth

root — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:45:41 +0000

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Kimball Holth

CEAC exhibition

A horse is not a pony

I’m an Australian artist living in Amsterdam. I like painting and drawing, and sometimes I do that, but often I’m looking for a way to disturb what has become too comfortable for me in making art, particularly painting. So far, this has led me to work in installation, sculpture, video, sound and sometimes short texts. I collect pieces of material and objects if I think they might come in handy, but I don’t like to push them too far. I prefer the early stages of making stuff. Those moments seem to be the most stupid, fun, lively and surprising, so I try to preserve that in the final piece. I started working like this while I was studying an MFA in painting in the Netherlands when I noticed that the mess accumulating in the cabinets of my studio was more interesting than the paintings I had hanging on the wall.

Francesca Brunetti

root — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:44:16 +0000

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Francesca Brunetti

CEAC exhibition

Post-terrona

Francesca Brunetti is an artist and scholar, and she is currently employed as a Teaching Fellow in Design Foundations at the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University in China. She completed a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Texas, Dallas, as well as a MA in Communication Design from the Glasgow School of Art and a MA and BA in Philosophy from La Sapienza University of Rome.

She has exhibited her work in several group and solo shows in the USA, UK, Italy, China, and Japan; held teaching appointments at American, European, and Asian universities; presented her artistic projects at international academic conferences; and published articles about her work in peer-reviewed journals.

Feminist theory informs Francesca’s studio art practice while her artworks provide additional elements to her theoretical investigations into feminism and ecology. She uses 2D analogue and digital artistic techniques, feminist philosophy, and ecocriticism to explore the relationship between female subjectivity and her material existence, the ecocritical approach to visual cultures, and the representation of women in cultural productions.

Chye-Ling Huang

root — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:04:41 +0000

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Chye-Ling Huang

CEAC exhibition

Black Tree Bridge

Chye-Ling Huang is a Chinese-Pakeha writer, director, actress and co-founder & director of Proudly Asian Theatre company and a relentless advocate for professional Asian visibility, empowerment and centering stories of queer POC.

Aside from PAT productions, her recent acting credits include The Mooncake and the Kumara, (Auckland Art’s Festival and national tour) Te Waka Huia (NZ tour), Homebound 3.0 (TV3) War Stories (telefeature), Sui Generis and Shortland St.

Yang Jianxiong

root — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:51:44 +0000

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Water Glass

Yang Jianxiong, image producer
Born in Yichang, Hubei in 1991, Jianxiong graduated from the Sculpture Department of Xiamen University in 2014, and now lives and works in Xiamen. Yang’s creation wanders between artists and ordinary people, reminding him that he can look at what is happening in front of him in a more justified way.

Temo Dou

root — Wed, 17 May 2023 05:37:40 +0000

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Man Trapped In a Room

Temo Dou is an artist based in Shanghai and Amsterdam Netherlands, mainly focus on film and photography art in the past five years, material wise based on digital media.