BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Visualizing Intercultural L.A.: A Workshop on Digitally Exhibi ting Art and Archival Materials X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261016T050300Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_43421602527537 DTSTART:20240403T170000Z DTEND:20240403T200000Z DESCRIPTION:ADMISSION: \nAdmission is free and open to current USC students only. Reservations required. \n\nRSVP\n\nDESCRIPTION: \nIn a workshop led by Beijing artist Rania Ho and Los Angeles artist and UC Irvine professor Simon Leung\, USC students will create a digital exhibition visualizing i mmigration stories in Los Angeles. Joined by USC professor and curator Jen ny Lin\, and USC librarians Tang Li and Suzanne Noruschat\, they will expl ore materials from the Special Collections of the USC Libraries and person al archives\, and then select\, present\, and discuss photographs and othe r documents for inclusion in a digital exhibition to be published via the open-source platform Scalar.\n\nIn addition to special collections of the USC Libraries which include historic photographs of Lunar New Year celebra tions and other events in L.A.’s old and new Chinatowns dating back to t he 1920s\, documentation of murals and public art projects representing As ian American histories across the city\, and the papers of Chinese America n novelist Ailing Zhang\, materials will include the following:\n\n- Black Panther Party Publications\n- Buffalo Soldiers Photographs\n- Floyd C. Co vington Papers\n- Latino/Chicano\, Lowrider. and Gangbanger T-Shirt Art Co llection\n- Lowrider Magazine Collection\n- Teen Angels Magazine Collectio n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to bring up to five objects from their pe rsonal archive/collection (photographs\, correspondences\, newspaper/magaz ine clippings\, etc.) to help visualize intercultural L.A.!\n\nNo experien ce is necessary\, and lunch will be provided. \n\nThis workshop and a conv ersation with Rania Ho and Simon Leung at the USC Pacific Asia Museum are presented in conjunction with Another Beautiful Country\, an exhibition ex ploring Chinese American and Asian American art and cross-cultural histori es in Los Angeles and beyond\, on view at the USC Pacific Asia Museum thro ugh April 2024. \n\nBios: \n\nRania Ho is a Beijing and San Francisco–ba sed installation and performance artist whose works employ a wry\, unexpec ted approach to everyday objects and situations as a means of interrogatin g broader social or cultural concerns. The internationally shown artist is also a co-founder of Arrow Factory\, one of the longest-standing independ ently run alternative art spaces in Beijing\, which operated in a small st orefront from 2008 to 2019\, and a co-founder of Wujin\, a tiny café\, bo okshop\, and creative platform in Beijing that has been running since 2013 . \n\nSimon Leung is a multimedia artist and UC Irvine professor whose pr ojects include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole\, meditations on “the residual space of the American/Vietnam War\,” a video essay on the site/non-site dialectic in stigated by Robert Smithson’s reception of Edgar Allan Poe\, and “squa tting projects” in Berlin\, New York\, Chicago\, Vienna\, Guangzhou\, an d Hong Kong. Leung has participated in the Venice Biennale\, the Whitney B iennial\, the Luleå Summer Biennial\, and the Guangzhou Triennial. \n\nT ang Li is the Head and Chinese Studies Librarian with the East Asian Libra ry at USC. Her research areas include Chinese bibliographical and textual studies\, Chinese book history\, Chinese archives\, and Chinese painting d uring the Ming and Qing periods. \n\nJenny Lin directs the MA program in curatorial practices and the public sphere and is an associate professor of critical studies at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. As a schola r\, writer\, and curator\, Lin explores relations between twentieth- and t wenty-first-century art and design and social phenomena such as urbanizati on\, globalization\, and decolonization. She is writing a new book\, Ano ther Beautiful Country: Moving Images by Chinese American Artists\, and cu rating the related exhibition at the USC Pacific Asia Museum. \n\nSuzanne Noruschat is the Southern California Studies Specialist at the Special Col lections of the USC Libraries\, and has also served on the board of direct ors of the Los Angeles City Historical Society and been an associate produ cer for the Lost L.A. TV series. \n\nRelated event: \nAnother Beautiful Co untry: Chinese American Artists in Cross-Cultural Conversation \nWednesday \, April 3\, 2024\, at 6 p.m. \nUSC Pacific Asia Museum \nFor more info\, click HERE. \n\nPresented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Jenny Li n (Art and Design) and Tang Li (USC Libraries). Co-sponsored by the USC Ro ski School of Art and Design\, the USC Libraries\, and the USC Pacific Asi a Museum. \n\nPhoto (right): Old Chinatown\, Los Angeles\, CA\nPhoto (le ft): New Chinatown\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 1939 GEO:34.020197;-118.283725 LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, Special Collections Seminar Room\, DML 206 SUMMARY:Visualizing Intercultural L.A.: A Workshop on Digitally Exhibiting Art and Archival Materials URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/visualizing_asian_american_la_ a_workshop_on_digitally_exhibiting_art_and_archival_materials CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR