Tate travel grants

OPEN CALL - TRAVEL GRANTS
Dislocations: Remapping Art Histories
Tate Modern, London
3-4 December 2015
A conference organised by Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific

Tate invites emerging scholars and curators specialising in the field of modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific art to apply for funding to attend the conference Dislocations: Remapping Art Histories at Tate Modern, London. Successful applicants will receive funds sufficient to cover their travel costs and two nights’ accommodation in London.

Attending this conference will provide an exciting occasion for early career scholars and curators to hear from prominent voices in the field of Asia-Pacific art and to meet with a broader network of researchers and specialists.

DAY 1	Keynote	Do Ho Suh
DAY 2	Session 1	Performance: An Expanded Field
	Convenors	Joan Kee and Sook-Kyung Lee
	Speakers	Ignacio Adriasola, Lee Ambrozy and Tina Le
	Session 2	Where Asias Meet: Decolonizing Centres
	Convenors	Ming Tiampo and Sook-Kyung Lee
	Speakers	Pamela Nguyen Corey, Sonal Khullar and Ming Tiampo
	Session 3	Contemporary Art and the Social
	Convenors	Zheng Bo and Marko Daniel
	Speakers	Lu Peiyi, Su Wei and Zheng Bo

Please apply by sending a CV and short covering letter (400 words) outlining why you would like to attend the conference by email to trc.asiapacific@tate.org.uk by 28 September.

Successful applicants will be notified by 12 October 2015

The Asia-Pacific Research Centre has been established with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It acts as a point for focus to encourage and support study, discussion and publication on modern and contemporary art from the Asia-Pacific region, both within Tate and in partnership with scholars and institutions nationally and internationally.

Chloe Julius
Research Administrator, Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific
T: +44 (0)20 7887 2985
E: trc.asiapacific@tate.org.uk
W: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/tate-research/research-centres/asia-pacific