RAS Art Focus

New Perspectives of Art in Shanghai:

How and When Sound Became Art

Sunday, 26 May 2024

2:15 pm Registration

2:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Continuing our examination of New Perspectives of Art in Shanghai, please join us in the ongoing series curated and moderated by the Art Focus Convener and Art Historian Julie Chun as we critically assess the pluralist aspects of local encounter and reception of art from abroad and within China.

This month, we take a deep-dive into the newest genre of contemporary art: Sound Art. Beginning with the basic inquiry of what differentiates sound art from music or even noise, we will break down the foundational aspects to better understand how and when sound took a turn to be embraced into the field of visual art. Using as a case study the current exhibition "I Never Dream Otherwise Than Awake: Journeys in Sound" on view at the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum, this session will provoke and test conventional thoughts to challenge and expand our understanding and vocabulary of "art". Please join us for an insightful session at the museum to see and hear for yourself the complexities achieved in contemporary art as it seeks to embrace inclusion, redefine aesthetics and activate the corporeal senses beyond the limits of our gaze.

For more information about the exhibition, please visit: https://www.wbmshanghai.com/en/category/exhibition/detail!Journeys-in-sound​