At this daylong symposium, speakers and artists will discuss topics related to the exhibition at the Johnson Museum.

Registration is free; please email Elizabeth Saggese at eas8@cornell.edu by November 9.

Symposium schedule (subject to change):

9:30AM
Continental breakfast

10:00AM
Opening remarks from exhibition cocurators Nancy P. Lin, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, and Ellen Avril, chief curator and the Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art at the Johnson Museum

10:30AM–12:30PM
“Performance in the Expanded Field”
With artist Lin Yilin; Ellen Larson, University of Chicago; Madeline Eschenburg, Washburn University; and Jessie Taieun Yoon, Cornell University; moderated by Christopher Phillips, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

12:30–2:00PM
Lunch break and time for viewing of the exhibition

2:00–4:00PM
“Speaking of Art: Artists Roundtable Discussion”
With exhibition artists Xing Danwen, Pixy Liao, Tao Hui, Miao Ying, and Song Dong, moderated by Nancy P. Lin

4:00–4:20PM
Closing remarks from Timothy Murray, Cornell University

This symposium has been supported by the Stoikov Asian Art Lecture Fund at the Johnson Museum, which was funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963.

Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China brings together works from the Johnson Museum collection and archival video footage from Cornell Library’s Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art with loans from artists, private collectors, and other institutions. Featuring a wide range of works, the exhibition reveals the multifaceted history of contemporary performance, photography, and video in China, while showcasing emerging artists who continue to push the boundaries of performance and mediation in radically new ways.

The exhibition was curated by Nancy P. Lin, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, and Ellen Avril, chief curator and the Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art at the Johnson Museum, and supported by a gift endowed in memory of Elizabeth Miller Francis ’47, the Richard Sukenik ’59 Endowment for Photography, the Ames Exhibition Endowment, the Russell ’77 and Diana Hawkins Exhibition Fund, and the Jan Abrams Exhibition Endowment.