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10 December, Book launch: (Re)made in China

Join us to celebrate and discuss “(Re)made in China. Material (Dis)connections, Art, and Creative Reuse”. A volume edited by Anna Grasskamp, University of Oslo.

 

Time and place:  – , The Centre for Advanced Study

 

Book caver with the text "Anna Grasskamp. (Re)made in china" and a photo of a landscape covered with textile waste.

 

The reuse and recycling of materials that were made in China has a short history in the daily activities of private households worldwide, but a long history in art, craft, and design.

 

The book “(Re)made in China. Material (Dis)connections, Art, and Creative Reuse” (degruyterbrill.com), edited by Anna Grasskamp, focuses on the practices of artists, craftspeople, and designers, and their re-evaluation of unwanted, pre-used, and discarded materials. The volume presents new research on material culture from China, one of the world’s leading waste-receiving and waste-producing countries, in a global context.

The book is published in print and as Open Access ebook that can be downloaded here.

Speakers

Amanda Boetzkes, author of Plastic Capitalism. Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, MIT Press, 2019 (online)

Finn Arne Jørgensen, author of Recycling, MIT Press, 2019 (in person)

Monica Klasing Chen, contributor to (Re)made in China. Material (Dis)connections, Art and Creative Reuse, De Gruyter, 2025 (in person)

De-nin Lee, editor of Eco-art History in East and Southeast Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 (online)

Hosts

Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo / Centre for Advanced Studies

Ingrid Halland, Aarhus University / Centre for Advanced Studies

Contributors to the volume

In the (online) presence of contributors to the volume:

Lisa Claypool, University of Alberta

Valentina Gamberi, Palacký University Olomouc

Marcela Godoy, NYU Shanghai

Evelyn Kwok, Hong Kong

Simone M. Müller, University of Augsburg

Dawn Odell, Lewis & Clark College

Pai Yen-tzu, Taipei

Mei Mei Rado, Bard Graduate Center

Shao-Chien Tseng, National Central University Taiwan

Meiqin Wang, California State University, Northridge

 

Followed by comments and questions by the members of theresearch group Material Ecologies of Design based at The Centre for Advanced Study: Elín Margot Ármannsdóttir, Maria Göransdotter, Anders Munch, and Carl Zimring (in person).

Registration

To receive the zoom link for online participation please register here until December 1.

Registration for Book Launch (nettskjema)