The School of Art, Design and Media and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University are proud to present Award winning Magnum photographer Chiang Chien-Chi for a public talk under the University's Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) Public Lecture Scheme.
Date: 5 October 2015
Time: 1730-1830.
Venue: Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), Auditorium 2
Free admission, all are welcomed
About the speaker:
In his work, Chien-Chi Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. The Chain, a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan, caused a sensation when it was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001) and the Bienal de Sao Paolo (2002). The life-sized photographs of pairs of patients literally chained together resonate with Changs jaundiced look at the less visible bonds of marriage. He has treated marital ties in two booksI do I do I do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a brutal depiction of the business of selling brides in Vietnam.
The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of an ambitious project begun in 1992. For 20 years, Chang has photographed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New Yorks Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. A work in progress, China Town was hung at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008 as part of a mid-career survey, Doubleness. Changs investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own deeply divided immigrant experience. Born in Taiwan in 1961, Chang studied at Soochow University (B.A. 1984) and at Indiana University (M.S. 1990). Chang joined Magnum in 1995 and became a full member in 2001.
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About Magnum Photos:
Formed in 1947, Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums across the world.
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