As the culminating event of her artist residency at Northwestern, Quan Zhou will present Linaje (Lineage), a transmedia installation that reconstructs the artist’s lost ancestry through AI-generated histories and artifacts—photographs, documents, drawings, and heirloom objects. In this public talk, she will discuss fundamental questions faced by first-generation descendants of migrants whose genealogies are erased, fragmented, or illegible.
This event is still in the planning stages; please check back closer to May 19 for full details!
Quan Zhou is the Spring 2026 Artist in Residence of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Kaplan Humanities Institute.
Cost: Free and public welcome!
Jill Mannor
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