06/08/2026
𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
On July 24, 2026, the panel discussion “Writing as World: Hermeneutics, Inscription, and the Interpretation of Art Across Cultures” will take place at Goethe-Institut, China in Beijing. Organized by INK Institute, New York, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, China, the event brings together artists, curators, art critics, and scholars from China, Europe, and North America to explore writing, language, art, and cross-cultural interpretation.
The panel takes as its focus the intersection of hermeneutics and textual art, considering how writing, inscription, and the visual presence of language may become acts of interpretation performed by the artwork itself. It brings Wang Shaoqiang’s shuxie practice into dialogue with Hanne Lippard’s work with voice, text, and language: while Wang inscribes classical Eastern and Western texts, translation, and reinscription within a shared visual field, transforming writing from a medium into a mode of understanding, Lippard explores how spoken text unfolds in time, and how speech, repetition, slippage, and untranslatability shape the formation of meaning. In this way, the panel opens onto the relationships between writing and speaking, text and voice, embodied experience and the production of meaning, while asking how different linguistic and cultural traditions generate new meaning through encounter, translation, and renewed understanding.
▤ Date & Time: Friday, 24 July 2026 (4:00 -6:30 pm)
▤ Venue: Goethe-Institut, China, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Goethe-Institut China WSQ王紹強 Craig Yee Daniel Muzyczuk
