Join the webinar at https://umich.zoom.us/j/94123750186

Complete event details at https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/artist-talk-contemporary-photography-in-china/

In a special online talk, five of the most groundbreaking artists working in China over the past three decades—Lin Tianmiao, Rong Rong, Song Dong, Xing Danwen, and Zhang Peili—will join Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden assistant curator Betsy Johnson and University of Michigan postdoctoral research fellow Meng Zhao in conversation.

This program is inspired by the Hirshhorn’s recent exhibition A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China, which brought together photography by twenty-five of the most innovative artists working in China over the past thirty years. During this time of swift cultural transformation, Chinese artists embraced the immediacy of photography to document the changes around them as well as their own thoughts and actions as they shifted their focus away from the collective to prioritize self-expression. This program will bring together key figures in the development of experimental photography in China to look back at these decades and discuss how they came to understand photography as a conceptual art form and the impact of this understanding on their communities and artistic practices.

This program was initiated by The Triune Brain collective and is presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and the Hirshhorn Museum.

Interpreting provided by Eriksen Translations.