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    Guests, Hosts, Ghosts: Art Residencies and Cross-Cultural Exchange
    La Rosa, Miriam ( 2022)
    This thesis investigates art residencies as sites of hospitality. It analyses two cross-cultural residency projects I developed: a residency organised on standard lines, involving art travel, and a hybrid residency, involving virtual and in-person elements. My discussions reflect on the conditions of art residencies before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining the distinction between visitation and invitation, the ethics of working in a place that is not 'your own home,' and the potential of the gift exchange to challenge fixed binary roles such as host/guest, insider/outsider, giver/receiver. The thesis proposes a new understanding of the changing relationships between art residencies and artists through the curatorial implications of the act of showing and of hospitality.
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    The Historical Formation of Chinese Contemporary Art and the Socialist Legacy
    Lu, Yinghua ( 2020)
    The subject of this thesis is the period in China from the 1950s to the 1990s, during which “contemporary art” (dangdai yishu) gradually emerged. This is part of a complicated historical narrative centered on the state. Existing understandings of this tumultuous period have been complicated by the fact that modern and contemporary Chinese art history has largely been written by critics—active protagonists—who have naturally promoted particular accounts. The thesis proceeds through an analysis of key debates and initiatives by artists, art critics and art historians inside China, drawing on primary research and interviews. The contention of this thesis is that contemporary art is not only an integral part of the culture that developed under the auspices of the state, but that Chinese contemporary art itself completely embodies the complexity and paradoxes of state culture.