Lee Mingwei: Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Fullerton Hall, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Tuesday, October 21st, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join us in person for a lecture by artist Lee Mingwei followed by an audience Q&A.
Dread Scott (BFA 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to reexamine ideals of Born in Taiwan and currently living in Paris, New York, and Taipei, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking, and conversation. Lee’s projects are often open-ended scenarios for everyday interaction and take on different forms with participants’ involvement and change during an exhibition.
Established in 2006 by a generous gift from Bill and Stephanie Sick, this distinguished visiting professorship enables internationally renowned artists and designers to visit and teach at SAIC
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.
Lee Mingwei, The Mending Project, 2009–present. Installation view of Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation, 2015, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Photo Courtesy of Taipei Fine Arts Museum
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