This event was part of a symposium, Gender, Identity, and the Crossing of Cultures in Contemporary Chinese Art and Media, which explored the intersection between gender, identity and cross cultural dialogue in Chinese contemporary art and media. Globalization of the art discourse, the hybridism of cultures, and the emerging role of female artists in this context were addressed.

The symposium featured presentations by academics, artists, gallerists, and curators from China, Europe and the United States. Organized by Elena Valussi, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of History, Humanities and Social Sciences, and presented in collaboration with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. 

Chaired by Wu Hung, curator and Art History Professor at the University of Chicago.

Presentations: 

"Critical Discourses: Debating the value of Chinese art in the 1990s", Peggy Wang, Art History Ph.D. Student at University of Chicago.

“The necessary instability of hybrid cultures. New Silk Roads: repositioning the role of art activists in Asia at the end of the 1990s”, Davide Quadrio, independent curator and founder of Bizart and ArtHub, active in Shanghai and Bangkok.