When the World Went South: Contemporary Art Practice in the Global South and the Making of Our Times

UChicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
168 Victoria Road, Mount Davis
Hong Kong

The rise of powerful voices from the global South in the late twentieth century brought new ideas about democracy, the aims of economic growth, the nature of inequality, the making of restorative justice and the critical place of sustainability in the preserving the biosphere along with novel ways of seeing the world through literature and the visual arts. In all these ways Southern voices began to remake political, economic, social and cultural practices in both the South and the North. In this talk Bradley will focus on the growing centrality of the South in contemporary visual culture through a consideration of the transnational circuits shaping contemporary art practice in Southeast Asia in the 1990s.

Speaker

Mark Philip Bradley
Bernadotte E. Schmidt Distinguished Service Professor of History
University of Chicago

In-person Event

Program
June 28, 2023 (Wednesday) on campus
6:30 pm Guest Presentation
7:30 pm Q & A
8:00 pm Event Ends

Online webinar

June 28, 2023
6:30 pm    Hong Kong | Beijing | Singapore
4:00 pm    Delhi
12:30 pm  Paris
11:30 am  London
7:30 pm   Tokyo | Seoul

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