Join artist Yang Fudong and BAM/PFA Adjunct Senior Curator Philippe Pirotte for a conversation focusing on the protagonists of Yang’s films: young Chinese who, like the artist, have grown up in the rapidly transforming society of the new China. What are the ideals and anxieties of this generation? How do they struggle to retain personal dignity in a society adjusting to constant change? How do “minor intellectuals” (Yang’s term) pursue spiritual freedom?
Admission free
Location:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
Yang and Pirotte will also be onhand to introduce the artist's first film, Estranged Paradise (2002), at a screening at the Pacific Film Archive on August 22.
