Tang Center Symposia
Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing
Inaugural symposium celebrating the dedication of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Saturday, 15 February 2003, 1:30 -5:30 pm
McCosh 10, Arthur M. Wood '34 Auditorium
Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
symposium Program
Persistence/Transformation is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on Xu Bing's art and its intellectual implications. Xu Bing will present an illuminating account of his own work. Leading scholars in a number of different fields address the place of Xu Bing's work within the long history of Chinese calligraphic practice, examine it in the context of Chinese intellectual dissidence, discuss Japanese avant-garde parallels, and judge it from a Western art-historical viewpoint.
symposium schedule
Registration
1:30-2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Jerome Silbergeld
Director, Tang Center for East Asian Art
Dora C.Y. Ching
Associate Director, Tang Center for East Asian Art
Sound, Sense, and Scale in the History of Chinese Writing
Robert E. Harrist Jr., Columbia University
Whose Assumptions Does Xu Bing's Art Disturb, and How?
Perry Link, Princeton University
“Word Art” in Contemporary Japan
Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University
Xu Bing, A Western Perspective
Hal Foster, Princeton University
An Artist's View
Xu Bing
