Kwong Lee Interview Part 3 (00:31:27:953-00:47:08)

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Records of the HLF Oral History Project ➔ Recordings ➔ Kwong Lee

Information

Type

Archival Record

Identifier

GB3451/OCOX101-001.XME.3

Other Identifiers

OCOX101-001.XME.3 (local reference number)

Date(s)

2017 Aug 04 (was creation date of)

Record Resource Extent

9.10 MB

Scope and Content

Part 3 of an interview with Kwong Lee, who worked at the Chinese Art Centre in the early 1990s looking at the Centre’s role as a cultural Centre and development agency and the impact of the creative writing group he was part of.
  • 00:00 How Chinese artsts explored identity through visual arts and creative writing; connections with British Chinese audience; work of the creative writing group including conferences in Liverpool and Birmingham; social impact of exploring Chinese culture through the arts;
  • 07:48 the concept of Chinese Community at the period and what that meant in the British context; development role of the Centre
  • 10:34 how the Chinese Art Centre venue was used to show different aspects of the arts within a single exhibition/workshop space;
  • 11:11: His personal mission to develop his own practice and connect to other contemporary artist of Chinese origin through the Centre;
  • 13:17: how initiative at the time exploring Chinese arts no longer exist and if Chinese art has become mainstream, the role of the Chinese Art Centre as an agency and experimental work; how this difffers from the CFCCA today. 

Access and Use

Representation Type

mediated ➔ digital

Conditions on Access

A low resolution version of this record is accessible online for personal non-commercial use. The original record or accessible surrogate is accessible to researchers by appointment in the CFCCA archive and library searchroom.

Conditions on Use

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Accessible Surrogate Information

(9.1 MB, 1 files)

Related Information

People and Organisations

Lee, Kwong, (b.1969), art director ; esea contemporary (1987-) ; Sanderson, Lesley, (b.1962), artist ; Li, Dinu, (b.1965), artist ; Ling, Yuen Fong, artist ; Yuan, Cai, artist ; Xi, JJ, (b. 1962), artist ; esea contemporary (1987-)

Places

Manchester ; Liverpool ; Birmingham

Events

Journeys West, various artists, 1994 Mar 11 - 1994 Apr 29

Keywords & Terms

Online ; audio ; English ; digital ; MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3 ; Sound ; digital ; interviews ; Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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