Chutzpah! Issue #6 Launch Event
On "The Revolutions": Scott Lash vs. Ou Ning
Time: 12:00 pm - 13:30 pm, Saturday, March
17, 2012
Venue: Ullens Center for Contemporary
Art, 798 Art District, Beijing
Free entry. Conversation in English and
Chinese with translation.
Chutzpah! magazine is proud to present Professor Scott Lash, director of the
Center for Culture Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in conversation with editor-in-chief Ou Ning on "The
Revolutions," the curated theme of Issue #6. Lash and Ou will discuss historical revolutions from the Paris
Commune to the Civil War in Spain, from the Situationist International to May 1968,
from the Zapatista Rebellion to the Seattle Protest, and from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, tracing the development of anti-capitalism and
anti-globalization practices during the last twenty years.
Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural
studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has a BS in
Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from Northwestern
University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Lash began his
teaching career as a Lecturer at Lancaster University, where he became Professor
in 1993. He moved to London in 1998 to take up his present post as Director for
the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths
College. Lash's work has been particularly influential in sociology and
cultural studies. His work with co-author John Urry has received a great deal
of attention in cultural geography.
Ou
Ning’s cultural practices encompass
multiple disciplines. As a curator, he initiated the biennale exhibition Get It
Louder and curated the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of
Urbanism and Architecture; as an artist, he is known for the urban research
projects such as San Yuan Li, commissioned by 50th Venice Biennale, and Meishi Street, commissioned by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes; and as an
activist, he founded Bishan Commune, an intellectual group devoted to the rural reconstruction movement in China. He was a jury member for
the 8th Benesse Prize at the 53rd Venice Biennale and a member of the Asian Art
Council 2011 at the Guggenheim Museum.
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