UCSB Visiting Artist Colloquium: Tiffany Chung in conversation with Zoe Butt

UCSB Department of Art Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Santa Barbara, USA | 22 April 2021

AGENCY | URGENCY Program Detail
AGENCY | URGENCY Program in UCSB Art Dept. Archive

As part of AGENCY | URGENCY: Learning with the Global South, Chung will present her diverse repertoire of projects that both utilize and subvert some of the institutions of power – the map, archive, and official history – to unpack and remap memories of wars, nation building, progress, and disasters that induce displacement and forced migration. Tiffany Chung and Zoe Butt will then discuss Chung’s biographical journey of transformative events that shaped her visual language, interdisciplinary and research-based practice, and commitment to amplifying the memories and histories of disenfranchised and invisible groups. They will also delve into the conundrums of figuring out the roles of aesthetics in civic work, as well as questioning whether art ceases to exist when it yields to functioning as social practice.