USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena will host Associate Professor Jenny Lin on Tuesday, March 9, in a free Lunchbox Conversation@PAM webinar on the subject, “Re-picturing Global China,” beginning at 12 noon.
Professor Lin will present research from her recently published book, “Above sea: Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai,” as well as the exhibition and award-winning catalog, “Picturing Global China,” and her in-progress book and exhibition, “Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images of Chinese America,” during this online event.
Her presentation will include contemporary art, design, and film created in and about Shanghai; photographs of surreal scenes, edgy performances, and everyday life in towns and cities across China; and Chinese American artists’ contemplations and visualizations of hybrid identities and homelands.
The talk will draw cross-cultural connections between Chinese and Chinese American artworks across time, media, and geographies, from Shanghai to Los Angeles and beyond.
Dr. Jenny Lin is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. She writes and teaches about modern and contemporary visual culture in relation to urbanization, globalization, and decolonization.
Her other writings on varied topics, including Italian-Chinese fashion exchanges, Fluxus cooperatives, queer video art, and Silicon Valley, have appeared in journals and magazines such as Art Margins, X-Tra, ArtReview Asia, Flash Art, and Frieze, and in many anthologies.
Dr. Lin’s work has been supported by numerous fellowships and awards, including from the UC Pacific Rim Research Program, Confucius Institute, and US Department of Education. She has experience working at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and in art galleries and studios in Shanghai.
Dr. Lin received her MA and Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA and her BA in Architectural Studies and Italian Studies from Brown University.
For questions or to request accommodations for this event, contact Cristina Hernandez-Guerrero at ch45852@usc.edu.
To get tickets, visit https://tinyurl.com/2qyp2qv8.
