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Oct
1
2016

Opening Celebration: Five Takes on Tseng Kwong Chi

When: Saturday, October 1, 2016
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Where: Norris University Center, McCormick Auditorium, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: FREE

Contact: Block Museum of Art   (847) 491-4000

Group: Block Museum of Art

Category: Fine Arts

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Opening Celebration for Tseng Kwong Chi - Performing for the Camera

He’s posed with Mickey Mouse or in front of Mt. Rushmore; in the thick of the Met Costume Ball or getting friendly with the politicians of the Moral Majority. His performative photographs range from candid snapshots with his club-going crowd, to staged encounters with American and European monuments. 

Tseng Kwong Chi was a Hong Kong-born, Vancouver-raised artist and photo journalist immersed in the downtown New York Art Scene of the 1980s. Combining personal identity with global politics, his photographs riff off the histories of multiple forms:  self-portraiture, touristic and landscape photography, and reportage, among others. Tseng’s images alternately function as witness to his life and community and as wry social commentary.

We invite you to join us in experiencing Tseng Kwong Chi’s photographs through the lenses of five local artists and thinkers. Through rapid fire presentations and performances, they’ll explore Tseng Kwong Chi’s legacy of cultural infiltration, political subversion and identity lived inseparable from art. Presenters include Chicago-based artists Rashayla Marie Brown and Leonard Suryajaya, Northwestern professors Joshua Chambers-Letson and Jessica Winegar, and Block Museum curator Janet Dees.

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