23rd October Saturday, SHANGHAI
16.30 - 18.30 Viewing at Venue1: 128 West Nanjing Rd (across the street from Shanghai Art Museum)
18.00 - 20.00 Opening & Cocktail Reception at Venue 2: (Chapel) 107 South Suzhou Rd (on the Bund, south bank of Wai Baidu Bridge)
18.30 OPENING CEREMONY at Venue 2
West Heavens Exhibition: Place·Time·Play: India-China Contemporary Art
Dates: 23rd Oct to 20th Dec 2010
Venue 1. Ground Floor, 128 West Nanjing Rd;
Venue 2. 79 & 107 South Suzhou Rd (The Bund, south end of Wai Baidu Bridge)
Lecture/Forum: West Heavens India-China Summit on Social Thought
(Lecture Hall, Shanghai Art Museum, 325 West Nanjing Rd. Shanghai)
Dates: 7 lectures/forums from 24th Oct to 18th Dec, 2010.
Please see website for details.
First Lecture by Prof Sarat Maharaj on 24th October Sunday
(Lecture: 10 to 12.30 am; Forum: 3 to 6 pm) Reservation call 021-63272829 ext 200
Simultaneous Interpretation Provided for Lectures in Chinese and English.
The "West Heavens" project includes a group exhibition of 16 artists (11 from Indian, 5 from China), and a series of 7 lectures by major Indian scholars, all to take place in Shanghai between 22nd October and 20th December, 2010.
"West Heavens" is China's first major exchange of contemporary art and scholarship with India. It is planned as an inter-Asia dialogue: all artworks have been created in the spirit of direct dialogue; all the Indian lectures are newly written with the Chinese audience in mind. For each scholar we are publishing in advance of the lecture a bilingual Reader, so as to better prepare both Chinese scholars and the public. With the inter-Asia dialogue of "West Heavens", we hope to implant in China an imagination about India. In India we see approaches to modernity that open up the possibilities of Asia.
For more than a century Chinese vocabulary about modernity has been exclusively tied to the West. The terminology is China/West or East/West. We now want to look not just at the West, but also at the West Heavens.
大家好！开幕时间变更为10月23日，周六。
请来与艺术家，展场主人和朋友一起聚会。
时间安排如下：
“从西天到中土”展览：《时·地·戏：印中当代艺术展》
16:30 - 18:30 参观 展场1：南京西路128号永新广场一层（上海美术馆对面）
18:00 - 20:00 酒会 展场2：南苏州路107号教堂内（外滩源，外白渡桥南桥头）
18:30 开幕式 在展场2
（18:00 － 20:00在展场1和展场2间提供穿梭巴士服务）
“从西天到中土”
展览：《时·地·戏：印中当代艺术展》（2010年10月23日 – 12月20日）
场地1：上海市南京西路128号一层； 场地2：南苏州路79号&107号
论坛：《从西天到中土：印中社会思想论坛》
时间：分七场，2010年10月24日 – 12月18日，日期详见网站
地点：上海美术馆演讲厅（南京西路325号）
Sarat Maharaj教授将于24日作第一场讲演
（讲演10:00-12:30;论坛15:00-18:00）预约电话：021-63272829转200
“从西天到中土”（West Heavens）印度交流计划包括一个十七人的展览（十二位印度艺术家、五位中国艺术家），和一系列的讲座与对话（有七位印度国际著名思想家分别来华）。所有的活动于十月二十二日至十二月二十日在上海举行。
“从西天到中土”是中国第一次与印度的现代艺术和思想界的大型交流，目的是推动亚洲内部的对话。所有艺术品以对话精神创作；每个学者的演讲亦针对中国听众。为促进普及了解，我们也为每个印度学者出版一本中英对照的读本，演讲前发行。“从西天对中土”这次亚洲内部对话，目的为了打开中国人对印度的想象。因 为我们在印度的现代化经验中看到亚洲的新气象。
中国走向现代化一百年，谈到现代化眼睛只盯着西方，想的不是“中／西”就是“东 ／西”。我们今天不能光看西方；除了西方，还要看到西天。