Talk: "All Islands Connect Under Water: Making Art, Making Community" by Ping Chong

• Event Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
• Time: 4:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Part of the CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series

Ping Chong’s work explores interdisciplinary art as an avenue for social change through the intersection of race, culture, history, art and technology in the modern world. Recipient of a 2014 National Medal of Art, he is acclaimed for bringing unheard voices to the stage and for creating art that addresses issues of inequality, equity, and social justice with beauty and precision. In this presentation Ping Chong will discuss the evolution of this interdisciplinary approach to theater in relationship to changes in contemporary arts and culture over the last 40 years using illustrations from his work.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Department of Dance in conjunction with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Theatre, Education Justice Project, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, Spurlock Museum, and the Stage Directors and Choreographer’s Foundation.