COnVERSATIONS

May 8

15:00 – 16:00

Opening Forum | Clash Inheritance and Innovation in Photography and Moving Image Art Collection

Guests: Qiao Zhibing (Collector, Founder of Shanghai Tank Art Center), Sui Qun (Collector, Founder of Wuhan Surplus Space), Shao Zhong (Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Modern Media Group)

Host: Zhang Yan, Publisher of FT China

16:30 – 18:00

Opening Forum | The Pleats of Time: Image, Memory, and Existence

Guests: Liu Zheng (Photographer), Shi Hantao (Curator, Writer), Yu Liwei (Film Director, photographer), Zhang Zhen (Professor, Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; Founding Director, Asian Film & Media Initiative)

Host: Cao Dan (President of Modern Media Group Art Platform and Publisher of its Art Media)

May 9

13:00 – 16:00

Between Photograph, Book, and Art: The Multiple Possibilities of the Photobook

Organizer: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

Co-organizer: PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai

Acknowledgments: Goethe-Institut

Guests: Andy Scholz (Director, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis), Fu Erde (Visual Image Researcher, Writer, Curator), Gu Zheng (Photography Theorist, Critic, Curator), Gwen Lee (Co-founder & Director, Singapore International Photography Festival & DECK), Liu Zheng (Artist), Ni Liang (Founder, Imageless; Initiator, Imageless Photo Book Award Dummy Award), Martin Rösner (Director, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis)

Host: Shi Hantao (Curator, Writer)

16:30 – 18:00

The Power of Women’s Photography: From Personal Perspective to Public Narrative

Co-organizer: Croissant App

Guests: Anais Martane (Artist, Photographer, Theater Curator), Tao Lixia (Writer, Translator, Photographer), Jiang Hanxuan (Artist), Xia Qiji (Photographer)

Host: Gan Yingying (Artist, Curator)

May 10

12:00 – 13:30

Imaging Shanghai, Photos A-Popping

Organizer: Douyin App

Guests: Na Risong (Art Director & Curator, Ying Gallery), @Thomas看世界, @丁亦然, @拍照的东东枪, @包恩在拍照, @李啟航, @范特西李, @李时了, @牙疼老爷爷……

14:00-15:30

Sui Jianbo “Modern Weekly” Magazine Image Exhibition Forum | “What to Shoot Today”

Guests: Sui Jianbo (Jumbo, Photographer), Liang Jiajun (Former Media Professional)

Host: Gao Chi (Editor-in-Chief, Modern Weekly STYLE)

16:00-17:30

Does Photography Kill Reality?

Organizer: FUJIFILM

Guests: Wang Qingsong (Artist, Curator), Zhang Kechun (Artist), Li Fan (Artist), He Jinyi (Artist), Luo Dan (Artist)

May 11

12:00 – 13:30

Focus on Imaging’s “New Force”: The Approach of New Generation Gallery Owners to Moving Images

Guests: Lu Yiwei (Founder, Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles), He Yinghe (Founder, ART ON Space), Han Xindi (Founder, GALLERY WHERE), Qian Qian (Founder, PETITREE)

Host: Chen Xi (Curator, Co-host of the “Leisurely Talk on Art” podcast)

14:00-15:30

Discussing Image Collection in the Digital Age from the Perspective of Image Copyright

Guests: Cheng Shoutai (Collector, Chief Partner, Tahota Law Firm), David Tung (Director, Lisson Gallery China), Sun Ruixiang (Photographer)

Host: Shi Jinle (Founder, P.art Group)

16:00-17:30

Beware of Poetry

Organizer: NOWNESS

Guests: La Hei (Artist, Curator), Chen Nianxi (Writer, Poet), Chen Dongnan (Documentary Director)

Host: Zeng Lin (Editor, NOWNESS)