This special event is free and open to the public, held in conjunction with the Johnson Museum exhibition Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China.

A live performance event by artist Lin Yilin will begin at 5:00 PM, followed by a reception and time to visit the exhibition. Images and video documentation of Lin Yilin’s 1995 performance Safely Maneuvering Across Linhe Road in Guangzhou, China, are on view in the exhibition.

At 7:00 PM, Wu Hung will give the Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art as the keynote of the Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China symposium. The lecture portion of the event will be live streamed.

Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago and an adjunct curator at the Smart Museum of Art.

The annual Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art at the Johnson Museum is funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963.