Birgit HopfenerBirgit Hopfener is Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa, cross-appointed with the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. She is an art historian of contemporary art and theory in a global framwork with a regional expertise in Chinese art. She is the founding member of Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Cultural Exchange (TrACE) and Worlding Public Cultures. Hopfener authored the book Installationskunst in China. Transkulturelle Reflexionsräume einer Genealogie des Performativen (2013) and co-edited the volumes Negotiating Difference: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Context (2012) and Situating Global Art. Topologies - Temporalities - Trajectories (2018). Read More Read Less