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SAVA: The Vital Breath from the Broken Earth - Sensing and Healing on China鈥檚 Fossil Fuel Frontier

16 October 2023, 6:00 pm鈥7:30 pm

image of a power plant

A performative lecture by Beijing based curator and art historian Mia Yu as part of the programme of the SAVA Research Week, introduced by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (香港六合彩中特网 Postsocialist Art Centre).

This event is free.

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Institute of Advanced Studies

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IAS Forum
G17, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building
香港六合彩中特网, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT

In this performance lecture, Mia Yu re-imagines the anthropogenic landscape of Fushun colliery鈥擜sia鈥檚 largest open-pit mine鈥攁s a cultural-material construction of modernity, where Chinese cosmology, colonial violence, Socialist industrialization, hybrid forms of shamanism and personal memories converged and agglomerated throughout the 20th century. Approaching the gigantic mine pit, the heaps of mining waste, the depleted rivers and the latest renewable energy projects as 鈥渟trati-fictions鈥, Mia Yu narrates the non-linear stories of Fushun with rich historical materials, found archives, film footage and field recordings. Through a variety of mediums and technologies, Mia Yu and local artists set out to activate the 鈥渧ital breath鈥 from the geologically-and-chemically-altered earth while exploring an ethics of healing and care on the fossil fuel frontier of Northeast China. 聽


Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) sets out to radically transform current critical debates around the Anthropocene, addressing the major lacuna in existing accounts by establishing the Socialist Anthropocene as a conceptual framework that asserts the constitutive role of the environmental histories and potentialities of Socialism in the formation of the new geological age. The project is led by Dr. Maja Fowkes (香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Advanced Studies) and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government鈥檚 Horizon Europe funding guarantee.

About the Speaker

Mia Yu

Beijing-based art historian, curator and educator

She is the initiator of Anthropocene x Extractive Frontier, a research platform that uses Northeast China (a.k.a. Manchuria) as a point of departure to explore the divergent narratives of the Anthropocene by engaging eco-imageries, alternative cosmologies, colonial histories, Socialist experiences and embodied eco-poetics. Under this framework, Mia Yu has curated 鈥淟iu Yujia: A Darkness Shimmering in the Light鈥 (Tang Contemporary Art Beijing), 鈥淐ounterpoints: Focus China鈥 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), 鈥淩esonances of One Hundred Things鈥 (OCAT Biennale 2021), 鈥淓cological Entanglements From Northeast China鈥 (Pro Helvetia), 鈥淟ocal Knowledge and Ecological Sensibilities (Goethe Institut Beijing), 鈥淚n Your Distant Embrace鈥 (Fushun No. 1 Petrochemical Plant), and 鈥淔rom Vladivostok to Xishuangbanna鈥 (Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival 2020). Mia Yu鈥檚 essay films have been exhibited at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Times Art Center Berlin, Guangdong Times Museum, Villa Vassilieff and Asia Society. She has lectured about her work in art institutions and universities in China and worldwide.