PANEL DISCUSSION: Trading Ideas: Emerging Discourses on Asian Contemporary Art

PANEL DISCUSSION: Trading Ideas: Emerging Discourses on Asian Contemporary Art
Wednesday, Nov 9, 6:30-8:30 PM,
First floor gallery space,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103,
Free with gallery admission

Organized by the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, this two-part panel discussion will provide opportunities to develop new conversations and invite fresh readings of traditional perspectives on pan-Asian and global cross currents in contemporary art.

Panel 1-Contemporary Art and Social Contexts in Philosophical Turns
will be moderated by Vishaka Desai, President and CEO of Asia Society. Panelists include Britta Erickon, Independent curator and critic, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Associate Professor of Art History, San Francisco State Univerisy, Xie Xiaoze, Artist and Professor in Art, Stanford University and Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Director, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

Panel 2-Rebalancing Notions of Cultural Specificity and Global Spheres of Influence in Contemporary Art
will be moderated by Melissa Chiu, Museum Director and Vice President of Global Arts Programming, Asia Society, Apsara DiQuinzio, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Joan Kee, Assistant Professor in History of Art, University of Michigan, and Carol Yinghua Lu, Independent curator and writer.