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PhD supervisor: Dr Hélia Marçal
Working title for PhD: Towards New Materialities: Time-based Media Art in Chinese Socialist Realism from 1976 to 2019
I am a PhD student in the Department of History of Art at University College London, researching the evolution and materiality of Chinese socialist realism in the period between 1976-2019.
My project addresses gaps in scholarship by focusing on how time-based media—film, digital, and performance art—have expanded the genre’s conventional boundaries, linking it to broader political, cultural, and technological contexts. Using frameworks from post-Marxist theory and feminist new materialism, my project explores how Chinese socialist realism artists have reconfigured categories like class, gender, and national identity. This perspective allows me to view Chinese socialist realism as a dynamic and evolving art form, rather than a static ideological tool.
I hold an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, with a focus on Chinese contemporary art, and a BA from University College London. My project is funded by the Critical Histories of Art studentship.
Recent Publications
Mao, Zhongping. ‘Walking as a Form of Social Engagement: The Situationist International Dérive and Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking’ The Courtauldian, Through Each Chartered Street, no. 29 (June 2023): 13–23.
-- --, (2022). ‘大规模复制时代的艺术作品及其创作 – 论吴俊勇《皮肤即媒介》’ [The Work of Art and Its Making in the Age of Mass-Reproduction: On Wu Junyong’s ‘Skin as Medium’] in 2021《画刊》封面计划展览论文集 [Collected Essays of the 2021 Cover Project Exhibition of Art Monthly]: pp. tbc.
-- --, ‘从制作到匹配：成为罗丹’ [From Making to Matching: A Review of Tate Modern’s ‘Making of Rodin’] Art Monthly, 12 (2021),pp. 54-57.
-- --, (2020). ‘壁画分离和转移影响解析’ [Consequences of Detachment and Transfer of Wall Paintings] in 2020全国高等艺术院校壁画教学研讨会收录论文集 [Conference proceedings of 2020 National Mural Teaching Seminar, Sichuan Fine Art Institute Disciplinary—Outstanding Artistic Talent Construction Project]: pp. 299-305.
Doré, Gustave, 多雷的堂吉柯德 [The Doré Illustrations for ‘Don Quixote’], trans. and ed. by Zhongping Mao (Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, 2021).
-- --, 多雷的但丁神曲 [The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy], trans. and ed. by Zhongping Mao (Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, 2021).
Hong, Luo, Luo Hong Photography Collection [罗红摄影集 ], trans. by Zhongping Mao, 13 vols (Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, 2020-21).
Teaching
- 2024-25 Writing Support PGTA for Core Course
- 2024-25 Thing-With Project
