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Dimensions: Women in Crafts
Join artists, curators and practitioners to explore how women shape, sustain, and reimagine contemporary Chinese craft across studios, communities, and generations.
From village weavers to factory potters, craft women have long played a vital role in sustaining China’s craft traditions, even though few historically left their names in art history books. Today, women constitute a significant creative force in the Chinese art world. Some work through contemporary studio practice, using craft materials and methodologies to explore aesthetics, generate meanings, and for some - articulate perspectives on gender. Others operate within traditional workshop systems, where they actively engage with the social, cultural, and economic worlds around them.
This panel brings together a group of women practitioners whose works and projects reveal the many dimensions of the female domain in the Chinese craft world today: creative agency, visibility, inheritance, as well as the challenges and possibilities that shape their practices across studios, workshops, and communities. This event is associated with the display Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts.
Section One: In the Artist Studio
Xu Qun in Longquan (film by Tan Hongyu)
Dimensions: Collecting Female Voices (Li Xiaoxin)
Ceramics, Voice, and the Feminine (Liu Xi)
Discussant: Nie Xiaoyi
Section Two: In the Workshop
Zhang Shuye
Duan Yiran
Lu Chuan
Discussant: Li Xiaoxin
Tiān Foundation
Tiān Foundation
