Across the Divide: A Round Table Discussion on Contemporary Chinese Art
In conjunction with the exhibition Across the Divide, the Visual Arts Center presents a round table discussion to explore the common thread among the Across the Divide artists as well as the history and direction of contemporary Chinese art today. Discussants for the round table conversation include Amy Lewis Hofland, Director of The Crow Collection, Dallas; Beili Liu, Faculty Host of the Across the Divide exhibition and Associate Professor in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Yun–Chiahn C. Sena, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art. UT Austin; Dr. Madeline Hsu, Director of the Center for Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of History, UT Austin, and others. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Yun-Chiahn C. Sena.
Dr. Yun-Chiahn C. Sena specializes in Chinese art and culture with a focus on the antiquarian movement and literati art and aestheticism after the tenth century. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Chicago, she joined the faculty of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, Pursuing Antiquity: Chinese Antiquarianism from the Tenth to the Thirteen Century, examines the Chinese antiquarian movement with a new methodological approach, which integrates data from art and literary works, archeological findings, and historical documents. Her recent study on Kao gu tu and Bo gu tu, the two most important illustrated antiquarian writings produced before the introduction of modern archeology to China, appeared in Wu Hung, ed. Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture in 2008.
