Wednesday, June 4, 2014
2–2 pm
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Concordia University, Montreal, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, discusses the various contexts out of which Ai Weiwei’s art and activism has emerged, from the toppling of the Goddess of Democracy statue on June 4, 1989, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to the rise of Internet culture and social media in China.