{"id":6402,"date":"2023-06-30T10:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:02:49","slug":"cultural-mediations-doctoral-student-xiaofan-wu-awarded-a-sigg-fellowship-for-chinese-art-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2023\/cultural-mediations-doctoral-student-xiaofan-wu-awarded-a-sigg-fellowship-for-chinese-art-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Mediations Doctoral Student Xiaofan Wu Awarded a Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cultural Mediations Doctoral Student Xiaofan Wu Awarded a Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to Cultural Mediations doctoral student <strong>Xiaofan Wu<\/strong>&nbsp;who, together with co-members of the Shanghai-based <strong>Grey Matter<\/strong> research group, was awarded a Sigg Fellowship for Chinese art research!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awarded by Hong Kong\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mplus.org.hk\/en\/awards-and-fellowships\/sigg-fellowship-for-chinese-art-research\/\">M+<\/a> Global Museum of Visual Art Culture, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mplus.org.hk\/en\/awards-and-fellowships\/sigg-fellowship-for-chinese-art-research\/\">fellowship<\/a> \u201csupports new research on Chinese art in dialogue with the M+ Collections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fellowship will support Grey Matter\u2019s 22-23 <em>Undercurrent <\/em>research project, focused on \u201coutlining a feminist narrative of Chinese conceptual art from the late 1970s to mid-1990s \u2026 to present a richer and more diverse picture of China\u2019s development of contemporary art. \u201d &nbsp;More details on <em>Undercurrent: A Feminist Retelling of Conceptual Practices of Women Artists in Contemporary China<\/em> can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mplus.org.hk\/en\/awards-and-fellowships\/sigg-fellowship-for-chinese-art-research\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xiaofan Wu<\/strong>&nbsp;is a first-year Ph.D. student in ICSLAC\u2019s Cultural Mediations program and a member of Dr. Birgit Hopfener&#8217;s Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship research team. Her own research focuses on contemporary Chinese art, with a special interest in video, performance, new media, and exhibition history. Xiaofan has interned at various art institutions in China and in the US, including UCCA Edge (Shanghai), Eli Klein Gallery (New York), Long Museum (Shanghai), and Shanghai Museum (Shanghai). Read <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/people\/xiaofan-ruby-wu\/\">here<\/a> to find out more about Xiofan\u2019s research and doctoral profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created in 2022 in Shanghai,<strong> Grey Matter<\/strong> is a research group founded by Yun Qiu, Xiaofan Wu, and Luqi Lin, with a research focus on the conceptual practices of Chinese female artists in the last three decades of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Cultural Mediations doctoral student Xiaofan Wu&nbsp;who, together with co-members of the Shanghai-based Grey Matter research group, was awarded a Sigg Fellowship for Chinese art research! Awarded by Hong Kong\u2019s M+ Global Museum of Visual Art Culture, the fellowship \u201csupports new research on Chinese art in dialogue with the M+ Collections.\u201d The fellowship will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6412,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/6412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}