March 4, 2021 | 4:00 p.m. CST
Panelists: Ho Tzu Nyen, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Sean Lowry, Simone Douglas
Moderators: Orianna Cacchione & Jessica Hong
Beginning in January 2020, the global art world ground to a halt due to the unprecedented and all-encompassing COVID-19 pandemic. Borrowing the title of the 2015 Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, this panel considers the current “state of things.” Held about a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were publicly identified in the United States, the panel acts as a space of reflection to consider the impacts of the pandemic on global practices and the possibilities that have arisen.
Presented by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art and Dartmouth University’s Hood Museum of Art. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with generous support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
