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Introduction To The Jury Members
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The IAAC 8 (2022)
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Iara Boubnova
Chair, of the Museum Board, National Gallery for Foreign Art Sofia, Bulgaria; Founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia; author of over 200 publications about contemporary art in Bulgaria and abroad; independent curator of over 25 individual and group exhibitions, incl. co-curator of biennials and of Bulgarian participation in biennials in Istanbul (1994), São Paulo, Cetinje, Montenegro (1997), St. Petersburg (1999), Venice (1999), Ljubljana (Manifesta, 2000). Asst. Prof, New Bulgarian University, Visual Arts and Communication Department, Sofia.
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Hou Hanru
International curator and critic, based in San Francisco, Paris and Rome. Director of MAXXI Museum of 20th Century Art, Rome. Curated numerous exhibitions, incl. ‘Cities on the Move’ (1997-99) and co-curator of numerous biennials and of Chinese and French participation in same, incl. Venice (3 times), Shanghai (2000), Gwangzu (2002), Istanbul (2007), Lyon (2009), Guangzhou Triennial (2009), Auckland Triennial, N.Z. (2013).
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Emily LaBarge
Canadian writer and reviewer, living in London; teaches the Royal College of Art, where she runs the Writing Programme’s annual critical reading seminars on non-fictional prose, the essay form and modes of experimental interdisciplinary writing. Has written for Bookforum, The Guardian, Tate etc., Frieze, London Review of Books, Witte de With.
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Jacques Leenhardt
Sociologist and philosopher. Director of Studies, Ėcole des Hautes Ėtudes en Sciences Sociales; Hon. President, International Association of Art Critics (AICA); President of the Friends of Wifredo Lam; author of numerous articles and reviews and founder of the series ‘Art and Nature’ (Ėditions Actes Sud).
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Lu Jiande
Lu Jiande graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, and received his doctorate degree at the University of Cambridge in 1990. He specializes in the studies and research of the Romantics, Anglo-American Modernism and Comparative Literature. After working for about twenty years at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) as one of its academic heads, he was the Director-General of Institute of Literature, CASS, and Editor-in-Chief of Literature Review before he retired in 2017. His works include Interests behind Ideas: Essays in Cultural Politics (2006), Canvas over the Horizon：Essays without Theoretical Claims (2012) and Self in Perspective (2015). He is also the Editor of T. S. Eliot: Poems, Plays and Critical Essays (Chinese edition, in 5 volumes, 2012) and World Literature in the Process of Modernisation (in 2 volumes, 2015). In recent years, he has written extensively on the genesis of modern Chinese literature and its active interaction with world literature, and also the cultural transformation that took place from 1894 to 1930.
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