Photo Alliance
dal 20/4/2003 al 21/4/2003
Segnalato da
20/4/2003
Photo Alliance
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
A Lecture by Albert Chong. Photographs and Installations from 1990 to the Present. As an artist he is not unlike a visual historian, employing a unique vocabulary of objects, ancestral artifacts, and family portraits to document the often silent and invisible history of heritage.
A LECTURE BY ALBERT CHONG
Photographs and Installations from 1990 to the Present
April 21, 2003
7:30 pm
Jamaican born, of Chinese and African ancestry, Albert Chong will show photographs and multi-media installations from 1990 to the present exploring issues of identity, culture, and the preservation of memory. As an artist he is not unlike a visual historian, employing a unique vocabulary of objects, ancestral artifacts, and family portraits to document the often silent and invisible history of heritage.
Chong was featured in the 2001 Venice Biennale, and was Jamaica's representative at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1998. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock/Krasner grant, and NEA fellowships. His book, Ancestral Dialogues: The Photographs of Albert Chong, was published by the Friends of Photography (1994). He teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
OPENING SPEAKER
Saiman Li
Saiman Li will present the performance work, 'My Different Color Days' (1997-2000) in which he travels to various cities as a colored man capturing reactions from the public.
Li received a BFA in photography from San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. His work has been exhibited at the Alternative Museum in New York and New Langton Art in San Francisco, where he currently lives and works.
PHOTO ALLIANCE LECTURE SERIES
The Art Institute is proud to host a new lecture series produced by Photo Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary photography.
Admission: $8 general; $4 students; SFAI students free. No advance tickets are available for SFAI Lecture Hall events.
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SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street,
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