Co-hosted by SPURS Gallery and Yale Center Beijing

Event Time

Friday, August 30, 2024

Registration
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Q&A
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

Registration
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Ticket: Free for Yale alumni; RMB 30 for regular admission.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The event will be in Chinese.

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

What are the confusions and challenges of young artists and curators when facing our complex social environment? What are their unique perspectives and sensibilities in creating and practicing? On the occasion of the second exhibition collaboration between the MFA program at the Yale School of Art and the Beijing SPURS Gallery, we invite Yale Art graduate V Yeh MFA ’24 to join artist Yan Zhou and curator Iris Long to share their artistic practices and experiences on August 30 at Yale Center Beijing. The event features a special address recorded by Kymberly Pinder, Dean of Yale School of Art.

Speakers

V Yeh MFA ’24

V Yeh (b. 1996, USA) received his BA of Medicine, Science, and the Humanities from Johns Hopkins University, and MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. He is an artist whose practice/praxis is in dialogue with science, medicine, and the visual and performance arts. His multimodal work grapples with normativity, artificial delineations—both scientific and cultural—and the material reality of specific bodyminds.

Yan Zhou
Artist

Yan Zhou (b. Beijing) received his BFA in Visual Communication from the School of Design at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yan Zhou’s practice explores issues of interrelationality and codependency between individuals and collectives. He spots on the minutiae of things, approaching the forgotten realms of causality through various methods, carefully weaving these remnants. He works in a variety of media from video installations and gaming to artist books. His works have been exhibited at various international venues and programs.

Iris Long
Writer, Curator

Iris Long is a writer and independent curator with a research focus on megastructures of science and technology in China, the psycho-geography of techno-science, as well as plural cosmologies. She’s also a 2022-2023 Berggruen Fellow and a Swissnex Fellow. She has curated/co-curated exhibitions around art, science, and technology, such as “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa” (Hyundai Blue Prize), “Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse” (PSA Emerging Curator’s Program), the third Today Art Museum “Future of Today” Biennial, and the art & tech sector of the inaugural Beijing Art Biennial, “Earth Heat Flow: the Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time”.