URBAN IMAGINARIES
Coordinators: Prof. Meaghan MORRIS, Dr Markus REISENLEITNER, Prof. Stephen CHAN Ching-kiu
Partner Institution: The Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University, Canberra.
A project on the city as a set of interrelated practices that structure the urban sphere imaginatively as well as physically. This “imaginary” urban space is created through the media and cyberspace, performing arts and heritage industries, local and trans-local institutions of all sorts, and above all “glocal” forms of popular culture—all pulled into a transnational network of cultural communication that vitally involves, in the Asian-Pacific region, a new range of social movements.
Other Affiliated Projects
- Dr Esther M. K. CHEUNG: "The Global as Ghostly and Fruit Chan's Films"
- Dr LAW Wing-sang: History of Cultural Criticism in Hong Kong
- Dr LI Siu-leung: “ The Inception of the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Making of High Culture in Colonial Hong Kong”
Funded by LU Arts Programme Research Grant - Dr Tony MITCHELL: “ The Films of Fruit Chan and a Hong Kong Imaginary”
- Prof. YU Siu Wah: “Music and Images of 20th-century and Post-colonial Hong Kong”