A Memorial service dedicated to our beloved friend Dr Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen (10 October 1969 - 21 September 2011)

As the soul of a beauty has gone, a warm memory survives with traces of love. A Memorial service dedicated to our beloved friend Dr Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen 10 October 1969 - 21 September 2011 Hsin-Yi Friendship Presbyterian Church 5, Lane 269, Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 3, Taipei City (MRT Taipower Building Station Exit 2) Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, 2:00 p.m.

Dear Friends, Our beloved friend Dr Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen was greeted by the warm embrace of God, the Father in Heaven on the 21st of September 2011 at 5.44 p.m. She has been released from all of her worldly hard work and she will rest at the Fu-Teh Burial Garden. All friends are invited to say prayers at a memorial service dedicated to Dr Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen on the 10th of October, the day she was born. This will be held at the Hsin-Yi Friendship Presbyterian Church on Monday, Oct. 10 2011, 2 p.m. Address: 5, Lane 269, Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 3, Taipei City (MRT Taipower Building Station Exit 2) If you have any thoughts of Elsa, please leave a message at http://misselsachen.blogspot.com

陳香君 追思禮拜

敬愛的朋友們，

我們摯愛的好友香君於2011年9月21日下午五時四十四分，蒙主恩召，息了她世上的勞碌，回到天上父神的懷抱，並將於10月7日安置於台北富德樹葬區。

在追思中
敬邀您一同蒞臨她的安息禮拜
在10月10日香君生日的這一天
為她祝禱

陳香君追思禮拜 謹訂於2011年10月10日（星期一）下午二時
中華基督教長老會信友堂
台北市大安區羅斯福路三段269巷5號
（捷運台電大樓站2號出口）

若您有話想和香君說，
也可至http://misselsachen.blogspot.com/留言。

一個美麗的靈魂
當她離開
留下的是一道美好回憶的線索
愛的痕跡

陳香君 生平略事
陳香君，台灣台中人，1969年10月10日出生，2011年9月21日安息主懷，享年四十三歲。

香君生長在一個大家庭，上有三位姊姊以及三位哥哥；出生時父母年紀較大又忙於家中的中藥鋪，從小可說是由大姊所帶大。國中就讀台中明道中學起便開始她的住校生活，高中則以優異成績直升明道高中部，並於一九八七年考上台大政治系國際關係組。在準備升大三時，她基於對於藝術史的熱愛，降轉哲學系並開始藝術史的學術研究。大學畢業後，她前往澳洲雪梨大學攻讀藝術史研究所兩年，隨後前往加拿大短期進修；回台後先後於報社以及立法院擔任撰文記者和委員助理一職。一九九六年一月，香君與阮啟民在台灣結婚，於二○○○年底得女阮棠。

外表給人柔弱感覺的香君，內心卻是非常的執著，有著極強的意志力。對她而言，藝術研究與關注社會議題的策展與論述最能讓她投入，因此於婚後又繼續進修、持續撰寫藝評、從事教學與策劃展覽。二○○六年她取得英國里茲大學藝術史博士學位，論文題目為《紀念之外：二二八事件、創傷美學與性別差異》，同年亦獲得UCLA的博士後研究獎學金，而赴美國加州大學洛杉磯分校講學。此外她亦任教於國立台北藝術大學、國立高雄師範大學以及國立陽明大學。

香君的主要研究領域包括台灣與亞洲當代藝術史，視覺文化中的創傷、歷史、文化記憶、跨域遷移與性別差異。面對社會議題，她的論述除有綿密的觀察外，也注重微妙的觀念轉折以及權力關係的轉移；在她策劃過的展覽中，二○○三年的「網指之間」巧妙結合女性與科技議題，激發出多元而豐富的面向；二○○六年的「燕子之城」則是作為台灣當代藝術史上很早的、關心移工與移民問題的聯展，她嘗試以藝術的角度為社會議題拉開歷史、地理與美學的空間。身為策展人的香君致力將台灣的展覽策畫帶進一個多元又縝密的思維與想像中，並且避免落入空泛與樂觀的架空議題中。二○一○年她也參與規劃，邀請國際知名的藝術史學者GriseldaPollock教授來台舉辦演講與工作坊。

心思細膩敏感、重感情、講話細柔的香君，在學術專業上雖嚴謹、注重細節，從她的研究議題卻顯露出高度的人道關懷；在和家人、朋友與學生的相處上總有著親和與溫暖的關懷，而且只要有朋友到訪都會受到她熱心的接待。此外，她亦告訴慧黠的女兒做人要謙卑，讓她將獲獎無數的獎勵都收入抽屜中。

香君在這段辛苦的生病與治療過程中，瘦小的身體雖虛弱、疼痛不已，卻仍保有強韌的生命力與堅強的抗癌毅力。今年九月二十一日下午，她回到天上父神的懷抱，息了她世上的勞碌與身體的痛楚。她未竟的專書與論文出版計畫，也將由家人與藝術界的友人協助整理與促成，讓她專注投入的研究議題仍能繼續被關注、被討論。

廖新田老師從澳洲寄來的悼念文

No words can describe the SADNESS, no. This is a great loss for the research circle and curatorship of Taiwanese contemporary art, especially the field of feminism and sociology of art. It is hard to imagine who can take her position so far in terms of her approach & persepctives in Taiwan, a unique and excellent example for students and peers. However, she will continue to stay with us through her publications & thoughts. I will remember a few moment of encounter with her. Rest in peace.

Dr. Hsin-tien Liao from Canberra
Taiwan Studies,
School of Culture, History & Language,
ANU College of Asia & the Pacific

Dearest Elsa walked into my office at the University of Leeds-- by Professor Griselda Pollock

Dearest Elsa walked into my office at the University of Leeds to shine the brilliant light of her sparkling intelligence, the rigour of her passionate politics and the warmth of her infectious smile.  It has been my privilege to learn from Elsa Hsiang-Chun over many years as she worked on her doctoral dissertation, spending many hours with me thinking about history, trauma and memory.  She opened my world to many new aspects, brought Taiwan's art and history into my consciousness and understanding.  We schemed and planned projects together about international feminism and new ways of understanding our relations across the planet.  She was such an extraordinary thinker and I owe her a huge debt for having come into my life and enriched the larger feminist community across the world.  The last thing I could do for her was to ensure that she was 'present' at the Centennial Panel on Feminism at the American College Art Association.  I spoke her words at the panel about models for creating networks that displaced the false centring of globalization in the Euro/American axis.  The paper and her naming and presentation is now on the Documenta 13 website. It is a small tribute to a powerful and sensitive voice in international feminism and art history.  Her loss is profound. What we have lost in her not being able to continue to flourish as a teacher and a thinker is even more profound.  But the loss experienced by her family and her beloved daughter is so much deeper that all I want to say in the end is that I admired and loved Elsa who was truly a light and a joy to all who knew her. Although there is little comfort in knowing that your mother was as loved and admired as she was,  I offer my deepest respect as a poor offering but a sincere act of love that means that I will always cherish the memory of this wonderful woman, my friend.

PROFESSOR GRISELDA POLLOCK

Director, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH)

Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art,

School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies,

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT    UK

tel 44 (0)113 343 5267

fax 44 (0)113 245 197

Recent  Publications:

BRACHA L. ETTINGER  : Art as compassion

Edited Catherine de Zegher, Griselda Pollock

ASP Publishers 2011   ISBN: 9789461170088

http://www.aspeditions.be/article.aspx?article_id=BRACHA434Y&langue=en-gb

Griselda Pollock

Allo-thanatography or Allo-auto-biography:

A few thoughts on one painting in Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? 1941-42

Documenta 13 Notebook (Hatje Cantz 2011) ISBN 978-3-7757-2877-5

http://www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13/en/notebooks/index.html

For Elsa by Professor John Clark

28 September 2011

Dear Taiwanese friends,

It was with great sadness that I and others at Sydney have learnt of the passing of Elsa, Chen Hsiang-chun. She was known to many of us since the early 1990s as a keen and diligent student, but also as a lively and companionable friend. She could even be very cheeky with her supervisor.

Whist she was here she wrote her BA Honours Essay in 1994 Mao Zedong’s Yan’an Talks and its Consequences for Chinese Traditional Style Painting in the 1950s, and her MA Long Essay , The Problems of the Art Theory and Practice of Liu Kuo-sung 1959 – 1966, in 1994/5. We were all very glad when her work and abilities were recognized with the opportunity to do her PhD at the University of Leeds on Beyond Commemoration: The 2-28 Incident, the Aesthetics of Trauma and Sexual Difference which she completed in 2005.

All this work showed an intense commitment to understanding Modern Taiwanese Art in the context of twentieth century Chinese art and politics. Her work on the questions of women’s art and feminism in Taiwan also greatly expanded the understanding of art in Taiwan across its variously gendered social contexts previously so often left to voices from a masculinist position.

In fact Taiwan has a large number of successful and important women artists who have impressed themselves both at home and abroad, standing out in the international Chinese world for their originality, firmness of expression about women’s positions, and art discursive power. Elsa was a great interpreter and defender of these positions, acquainted with most recent theories but with also a deep awareness of the realia of Chinese lives.

I will remember her fondly as a thinker, and above all for that insouciant charm.

With best wishes

John Clark

Professor John Clark, FAHA, CIHA, PhD

Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow

Postal Address: Department of Art History & Film, RC Mills A26, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

請留下ㄧ些話語 讓我們一起緬懷香君 share your thoughts, memories, and condolences

2011年9月21日下午9:34
香君走了
太令人不捨了
祈求上蒼保佑香君在另一個世界不再有病痛
是在一個讓她 放心 喜樂 的國度
是在一個讓她 放心 喜樂 的國度
一一

2011年9月21日下午10:17
難過
怡平

2011年9月21日下午10:49
香君，一路好走!
駱

2011年9月21日下午11:20
香君已經無病無痛了 我們就捨了
L

2011年9月22日下午12:00
hard to accept and hard to understand, so young and so bright.......................
so live life fully and see the moment that we can give and receive all that is happy and meaningful then
love to all
Margaret

2011年9月22日下午3:09
OH我的天ㄚ...so sad and may her find her peace...and what we shall do...How about her daughter! Oh...
足滿