Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.
4th May 2023. 16.00 – 17.30.
With Jane Chin Davidson (Professor of Art History/Global Cultures, California State University, San Bernardino).
In the global expansion of contemporary art, Chinese artists have adopted the embodied practices of the performance medium to engage with the human subject in response to the environmental exigencies of the Anthropocene. Artists have juxtaposed the human subject with China’s changing landscapes across Hong Kong and Taiwan, using performance as an aesthetic form for restoring polluted industrial sites in Taipei as well as for documenting ecological loss along the Yangtze river in the development of hydroelectric power with the Three Gorges Dam. As an integral component of conceptual art in today’s transnational contexts, performance serves a unique sociopolitical function through its ability to showcase different perspectives for understanding life in the climate generation.