Dr. Yang Jing
4pm Friday 23 November, 2018
Room 6050, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

Over the past six decades, the construction of large dams all over the world forced 40 to 80 million people to leave their land. Among the vast environmental and social consequences caused by the Three Gorges Project, the mass human displacement has been the most severe and remains an unsettled issue. The construction of the dam and impoundment affected a vast area; approximately 1.3 million people in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area were forcibly relocated from 1993 to 2008. This talk will focus on photographic works of three Chinese artists — Chen Qiulin, Mu Ge and Yang Yi. All of them are from the most affected counties in the reservoir area. My reading of their artworks is to instantiate an interpretative framework for the visualization of human displacement caused by this hydropower megaproject as a severe and complex eco-political issue.

Dr. Yang Jing teaches at Sichuan Normal University. She is currently undertaking a post-doctoral project focusing on “ecological awareness in Chinese contemporary art” at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, where she received her PhD in 2015. Her research is funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Dr. Yang’s visit is supported by the Tin Ka Ping Education Fund.