West Heavens: India-China Summit on Social Thought Timetable
Schedule: http://westheavens.net/en/summit/schedule/

** Upcoming Summit **
Arguing About Women and Culture: The Case of India 

Monday, Dec 13, 2010 / Zhejiang Univ.
Lecturer: Tejaswini Niranjana
Host: Guo Xiajuan

The Time of the Present, or Belatedness as Possibility 

Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010 / Shanghai Univ.
Lecturer: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Panelist: Wang Hongsheng Ni Wei
Host: Cai Xiang



For more than a century, challenges of imperialism and capitalism have 
forced India and China to develop strategies that have profoundly 
transformed both societies. To share this experience is valuable for 
Indian and Chinese artists alike. For China, long before the seismic 
cultural shift towards the West it had experienced one other profound 
cultural turn. The Buddhist turn did not come with comparable 
destructive fervour as the past century of revolutions, but its 
influence was just as far reaching; and Buddhist learning took many 
centuries - starting from Han dynasty scholars until Song dynasty 
philosophers - before it was fully absorbed into Confucian scholarship. 
For China today, after a century of revolutions, it is important to 
remember this history of cultural self - transformation; it is critical 
to remind ourselves that in our imagination of the world there is not 
just the West, but also the West Heavens.

近百年的西化、現代化，是中印雙方都必須面對的形勢。而在這次文化大變遷之 
前，中國曾有過一次同樣影響深遠的文化交流，就是自漢朝入華的佛教傳授。佛學 
來 華雖然遠遠未有近百年革命來得慘烈，可是其影響深遠，歷經數代，直到宋儒 
才被徹底消化。在百年西化和意識形態革命之後，再訪天竺讓我們重訪中國文化自 
我改 造的記憶，並提醒我們在想像世界版圖的“西方”時，尚有一個離感官更遠而 
腳程更近的“西天”。

West Heavens Exhibition Introduction Video: 
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjI2NzQ0ODY4.html

WEST HEAVENS EXHIBITION
PLACE‧TIME‧PLAY: INDIA-CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART
23 October – 20 December, 2010
Venue1: 128 West Nanjing Road (opposite Shanghai Museum of Art)
Venue2: 79 & 107 South Suzhou Road (The Bund, Wai Baidu Bridge)
Website: http://westheavens.net
Email: westheavens@gmail.com 

West Heavens: India-China Summit on Social Thought
Biennale Series: Shanghai Art Museum Lecture Hall (325 West Nanjing 
Road, Shanghai)
Lecture: 10:00 – 12:30
Panel Discussion: 15:00 – 18:00

Campus Series: China Academy of Art (218 Nanshan Road, Hangzhou)
Fudan University (220 Handan Road, Shanghai)
Zhejiang University (International Conference Center, Zijingang Campus, 
Hangzhou)
Shanghai University (99 Shangda Road, Shanghai)
Summit video: http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_5355121.html

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從西天到中土
時‧地‧戲：中印當代藝術展
2010 年 10月23日 - 12月20日
展場一： 上海市南京西路 128 號一層 (上海美術館對面)
展場二： 南蘇州路 79號和 107號 (外白渡橋南側)

從西天到中土：印中社會思想對話
雙年展場：上海美術館演講廳（上海市南京西路325號）
2010年10月24日-12月18日
講座 10 10:00 – 12:30
討論會 15:00 – 18:00

大學專場：中國美術學院（杭州市南山路218號）
復旦大學（上海市邯鄲路220號）
浙江大學（杭州市紫金港校區國際會議中心）
上海大學（上海市上大路99號）
2010年10月25日-12月20日


(From left to right)
Atul BHALLA- The Listener from the West Heavens, 2010
Tushar JOAG- Riding Rocinante: From Bombay to Shanghai via Sardar 
Sarovar and the Three Gorges, 2010
Anant JOSHI- Musical Chairs, 2010
Sonia KHURANA- Trespass, 2010
(From left to right)
Tallur LN- Enlightenment Machine (Beta Version), 2010
Raqs Media Collective- Revolutionary Forces, 2010
Gigi SCARIA- No Parallel, 2010
Gulammohammed SHEIKH- CITY: Memory, Dreams, Desire, Statues and Ghosts; 
Returen of Hiuen Tsang, 2010
(From left to right)
Nilima SHEIHK- Over Land, 2010
HU Xiangchen- Untitled, 2010
LIU Dahong- Travelling Worldwide, 2010
QIU Anxiong- Cubic Globe, 2010
QIU Zhijie- Railway from Lhasa to Katmandu, 2010

COMMISSIONER: Chang Tsong-Zung
EXHIBITION CURATOR: Chaitanya Sambrani
PRESENTED BY: Shanghai International Culture Association, Institute of 
Visual Culture (China Academy of Art)
CO-PRESENTED BY: Hanart TZ Gallery, Moonchu Foundation
SUPPORTED BY: Verdant Foundation, The Peninsula Shanghai, World Culture
Organization, Pinnacle Group Co Ltd, Indian Council for Cultural Relations
PROJECT MANAGER: Chen Yun
SCENOGRAPHY BY: Bu Bing

項目總監：張頌仁
策展人：蔡坦尼亞. 桑布拉尼
主辦：上海市對外文化協會   中國美術學院展示文化研究中心
承辦：漢雅軒   夢周文教基金會
支持：翠菊基金會   上海半島酒店   世界文化組織   伯仲國際文化投資有限公 
司   印度對外文化關係委員會
項目統籌：陳韻
展覽設計：卜冰