Ephemeral Architectures: early performance and video art from China
November 9, 2023
Ephemeral Architectures: early performance and video art from China
Organized in conjunction with Center of the Art of East Asia Postdoctoral Instructor of Art History Ellen Larson’s Fall 2023 course Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art, a student-curated pop-up exhibition titled Ephemeral Architectures: early performance and video art from China will open on Thursday November 9, 2023, with an opening reception to take place on Saturday, November 11. The exhibition will be staged across the University of Chicago campus and include loans from UCLA’s Hammer Museum of Art and ShangART Gallery in Shanghai.
An associated screening series will take place on Saturday, November 11 and Sunday, November 12 at the Logan Center for the Arts. This series will feature videos from University of Chicago’s Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor Wu Hung’s newly digitized archive of video and performance art from China. Both screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion and audience Q&A. Find program details below:
Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art: Video and Performance in the 1990s
November 11, 2023, Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201, 5-7pm
Invited discussants: Song Dong and Nancy P. Lin, PhD (Cornell University)
Approaches to Contemporary Chinese Art: Video and the City
November 12, 2023, Logan Center for the Arts, Room 201, 5-7pm
Invited discussants: Meiqin Wang, Phd (California State University, Northridge), and Madeline Eschenburg, PhD (Washburn University)
Please contact Ellen Larson (ellenlarson@uchicago.edu) for more information.
This program series has been made possible thanks to the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with generous support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and the University of Chicago’s Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse. Additional support is provided by UChicago’s College Curricular Innovation and Undergraduate Research Fund, the Department of Art History, and the Center for the Art of East Asia.
