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Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957). *He Xie,* 2010. 3,200 porcelain crabs, dimensions variable. Installation at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2012. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio. Photo by Cathy Carver

Perspectives Talk: “Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human Rights”

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.

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Perspectives Talk: “Love the Future: Ai Weiwei and Art for Human Rights”

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